Fritz Belisle tees off at the 2023 MIAC Men's Golf Championships
Ben Diers

Augsburg men claim fifth at MIAC Championships

TOURNAMENT RESULTS (TEAM)TOURNAMENT RESULTS (INDIVIDUAL)

MAPLE GROVE , Minn. – Led by an eighth-place individual finish by Fritz Belisle (SR, Red Wing, Minn./Roseville Area HS), the Augsburg University men's golf team placed fifth as a team at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships, held over the weekend at Rush Creek Golf Club.

THE BASICS
RESULTS: Augsburg 5th/9 (914)
LOCATION: Rush Creek Golf Club, Maple Grove, Minn. (Par 72, 7,006 yards)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Belisle finished with a 54-hole score of 221 (79-71-71), matching his career-low 54-hole score set just last weekend at the Twin Cities Classic. He tied for eighth place overall in the field of 45 golfers, earning automatic All-Championship Team and All-MIAC (top-10) honors in the process. Belisle rounds out the fall portion of the 2023-24 season with a 75.8 stroke average.
• Stellan Orvick (SR, Minneapolis, Minn./Washburn HS) narrowly missed the top-10 as he landed in a tie for 13th place, shooting a 224 (76-72-76). Orvick has now finished top-25 at the MIAC Championships in each of his four seasons. With the fall season now over, Orvick's stroke average sits at 73.6, the best on the team.
• River Goodmanson (SR, Buffalo, Minn./Buffalo HS) finished in a tie for 29th place overall, posting a three-round score of 234 (78-79-77). Goodmanson now holds a 78.3 stroke average through the fall portion of the season.
Sawyer Bailey (SR, Eden Prairie, Minn./Minnetonka HS) finished in sole possession of 35th place, shooting a three-round score of 239 (83-75-81). Bailey now holds an 80.7 stroke average this season. Vincent Weis (SR, Madison, Wis./Edgewood HS) was just behind him in a tie for 36th place, turning in a final score of 240 (80-78-82). Weis finishes the fall season with a 78.2 stroke average.
• As a team, Augsburg finished in fifth place with a 914 (313-296-305) score, closing the fall half of the 2023-24 season with a 303.8 team stroke average, an improvement of nearly eight strokes from a season ago.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg returns to action in the spring half of the 2023-24 season.
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