PITTSBURGH – Daniel Cheng and
Václav Tichý produced top-10 individual finishes to lead James Madison men's golf to a tie for fifth at the RedHawk Intercollegiate on Tuesday afternoon.
In a deep 84-player field, Cheng took home a third-place finish, the best of the season and his fifth career top-five placement. The senior carded rounds of 67-71-68 to finish with a three-round score of 206 (-7). Cheng finished three strokes behind Marquette's Patrick Adler, who topped the individual charts with a 203 (-10) at the par-71, 6,717-yard Pittsburgh Field Club.
Tichý recorded a tie for ninth, his third consecutive top-10 finish. He carded a bogey-free 65 (-7) in his second round, which was sandwiched between rounds of 75 and 70 (-1) to finish with a 54-hole score of 210 (-3). In 11 rounds this fall, his stroke average of 70.18 leads the Dukes.
Marquette (836, -16) paced the 16-team field, finishing with a team score of 836 (-16). JMU produced a three-round score of 857, improving its scores every round (293-284-280).
Junior
Owen Kose (223, +10) produced three consistent rounds of 75-74-74 to tie for 58th. Redshirt sophomore
Garrett Kuhla bounced back from a 76 and 77 in the first two rounds to close with a final-round 71 (E) and tie for 61st, while
René Bergendi matched Kuhla with a 71 in Tuesday's final round after posting scores of 79 and 74 in his first two rounds and also tied for 61st.
The Dukes will conclude the fall portion of their 2024-25 schedule at the Furman Intercollegiate on Oct. 19-20 in Greenville, S.C.