Pacers Fall Just Short in Bid for Ninth PBC Men’s Golf Championship

PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – UNC Pembroke defeated USC Aiken on the first playoff hole to claim the team championship at the 2012 Peach Belt Conference Men's Golf Championship at the 7,057-yard, par-72 Mountain View Golf Course at Callaway Gardens. 

Both USC Aiken (295-287-290) and UNC Pembroke (288-291-293) concluded the three rounds of the PBC Championship with identical team scores of 872.

USC Aiken finished the playoff hole with three pars and a bogey, while UNC Pembroke had one birdie and three pars.

Three Pacer golfers finished in the top-10 with First-Team All-Peach Belt Conference performer Matt Atkins (Owensboro, Ky./Henderson State) leading the way with a second-place finish. Atkins produced a three-round tally of 2-under 214 (70-75-69) to claim second.

Flagler's Joel Dahlenburg claimed the individual medalist honors with a 3-under 213 (73-67-73).

Both Gaines Milliner (Aiken, S.C./Aiken) and Taylor Welborn (LaGrange, Ga./Darton) concluded the PBC Championship in a tie for sixth place at 218. Milliner (73-72-73) and Welborn (76-69-73) both posted 73s in the final round. 

JP Solis (Morelia, Mexico/Lico Morelia) obtained 13^th place with a three-round score of 222 (76-71-75). Hayden Letien (Sumter, S.C./Sumter) ended things in 39^th with a three-round tally of 231 (77-77-77).

Nationally 18^th-ranked USC Aiken will next wait to see if it gets an invitation to the NCAA Division II South/Southeast Regionals, which will be contested May 7-9 at Rock Barn in Conover, N.C. USC Aiken has advanced to regional play in 19 of the last 20 seasons.

USC Aiken under Hall of Fame head coach Michael Carlisle in the NCAA Division II Tournament has three NCAA Division II National Championships (2004, 2005, 2006) and three NCAA Division II runner-up finishes (1995, 1996 and 1999).

In the past eight years, USC Aiken has five NCAA National Championships, which includes three team titles and two individual crowns (Jeff Goff, 2008; Dane Burkhart, 2005).

T1    USC Aiken         295   287   290   872

2     Matt Atkins (1)   70    75    69    214

T6    Gaines Milliner (4)     73    72    73    218

T6    Taylor Welborn (5)      76    69    73    218

T13   J.P. Solis (2)          76    71    75    222

T39   Hayden Letien (3) 77    77    77    231

T1   

6 DII UNC Pembroke 2

+8    F       +5 288  291  293  872

T1   

15 DII      USC Aiken 2

+8    F       +2 295  287  290  872

3    

21 DII      Georgia Coll. & State 2

+11   F       +3 293  291  291  875

4    

30 DII      Columbus State 2

+18   F       +2 297  295  290  882

5    

19 DII      Armstrong Atlantic 2

+22   F       +4 293  301  292  886

6    

20 DII      Georgia Southwestern 2

+26   F       +17      296  289  305  890

7    

39 DII      Flagler College 2

+29   F       +11      300  294  299  893

8    

      Clayton State 2

+41   F       +5 309  303  293  905

9    

      North Georgia 2

+61   F       +22      304  311  310  925

10   

      Montevallo 2

+68   F       +28      302  314  316  932

11   

      Lander 2

+78   F       +37      313  304  325  942