Oct. 4, 2011
2011 Wolfpack Intercollegiate Final Results 
Raleigh, N.C. - Western Carolina struggled over its final 18 holes on Tuesday, carding a 312 as a team to shoot 899 overall for the 54-hole event to finish 13th overall at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate, hosted by North Carolina State at the par-71, 7,358-yard Lonnie Poole Golf Course.
True freshman J.T. Poston led the Catamounts by tallying the second top-10 of his young collegiate career, finishing tied for sixth in posting a career-best finish. Poston, who was tied for first after 18 holes and tied for the runner-up position after the second round, shot six-over, 77, in the final round.
Poston opened the final round with his worst start of the event, carding four bogies and two double-bogey scores to make the turn at eight-over-par, 43. The Hickory, N.C., native rallied, though, to shoot two-under on the back nine, scoring back-to-back birdies on the par-4 12th and 13th to finish at 77 for the round, 215 for the event. He did card his career-low round of 68 in the opening round on Monday.
Catamount classmate Charlie Kilzer, who was also tied atop the leader board with a career-low 68 in the opening round, shot 79 on Tuesday to slip into a four-way tie for 16th at 218 - both of which were career-bests. Kilzer played the majority of the round at five-over par, countering five bogies with a pair of birdies on the back nine before a disastrous triple-bogey on the par-4 18th dropped him to eight-over for the final round.
Poston and Kilzer finished the tournament with 11 and 10 birdies, respectively, with Kilzer posting the fifth-best, par-5 scoring average at three-under, 4.75 and Poston the fifth-best par-4 scoring average at one-over, 4.04.
The University of Memphis led wire-to-wire, carding a final round 290 to shoot 861 to win the 54-hole tournament by two strokes over UNC Greensboro (863). Louisiana-Lafayette slipped from second to third in the final standings, five strokes off the pace at 866, with East Carolina and Campbell tying for fourth with identical scores of 870 to round out the top five teams.
UNCG's Robert Hoadley turned in a four-under par, 209, to claim individual medalist honors by a pair of strokes over Jack Belote of Memphis.
Rounding out the scorers for the Catamounts was sophomore Jack Walsh in a tie for 75th at 233, followed by sophomore Greg Bunner in a tie for 79th (234) and freshman Matthew Turner in 87th (247).
Walsh made the turn at two-over on Tuesday and dropped to one-over with a birdie on the par-4 tenth. However, consecutive double-bogies on the 12th and 13th relegated him to six-over for the round, followed by a bogey on No. 16 to shoot seven-over 78. Bunner had a solid round, posting 11 pars and seven bogies while Turner was on his way to playing the front nine at even par before a triple-bogey on the par-3 eighth started a stretch where he was bogey-or-worse on eight of the next nine holes.
Western Carolina returns to action in two weeks at the Donald Ross Intercollegiate, hosted by Appalachian State at the Mimosa Hills Country Club in Morganton, N.C. The 54-hole event opens with 36-holes on Monday, Oct. 17 and concludes with a single round on Tuesday, Oct. 18.
