Final Results
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - After placing fourth a year ago at the conference championship-style golf tournament, North Carolina Central University posted three of its best four team scores of the season to finish in third place at the MEAC Showcase, which concluded on Sunday at the Legends Golf Club in Myrtle Beach.
The Eagles recorded team scores of 308 and a season-best 297 on Saturday, followed by a final round 307 on Sunday. The only other team score that sits among those during the rest of the season was a 300 back on Sept. 29, 2012, at the Black College Hall of Fame Invitational in Atlanta.
Spencer Jones, a junior from Shelby, N.C., led the charge for NCCU with scores of 74, 70 (-2) and 74 to place fourth on the leaderboard. His 54-hole total of 218 is a career-best - by five strokes. Jones’s second-round tally of a 2-under-par 70 was also a career-low.
Glendon Mabe, a junior transfer out of Ether, N.C., rallied on Sunday with a 74 to move up to 12th place with a three-round total of 227 (76, 77, 74).
Michael Wilson, a freshman from Flint, Mich., carded the best two rounds of his rookie campaign with scores of 78 and 73 on Saturday, finishing with an 85 on Sunday to place 19th.
After an opening round 85, freshman Garreth Carpenter, a native of Augusta, Ga., responded with scores of 77 and 79 to finish in 22nd place.
Andre Jones, a junior from Durham, N.C., collected a three-round total of 247 (80, 87, 80) to place 24th among the league’s 29 golfers in attendance.
NCCU's team score of 297 in Saturday's second round is the lowest for the Eagles since Oct. 9, 2009, when the team also posted a 297 at the Louisburg Bullfight Summons tournament.
NCCU, under the direction of first-year head coach David Hinton III, wraps up the 2012-13 season on May 10-12 in the 27th PGA Minority Collegiate Championship at the PGA Golf Club in Post St. Lucie, Fla.