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[Men's Golf] Golf Finishes Fall Schedule

The Friends men's golf team finished the fall portion of their 2013-2014 schedule with a trip to the Swede Fall Invitational. The tournament was played at the Salina Municpal Golf Course one round and the Great Life Golf Course for the other. Both courses are in Salina.Weather played a factor in the tournament, with the temperature never getting above the mid-50's, increasing wind speeds, and on and off rain throughout the day.Freshman Kesten Trebbe (Augusta, KS) led the Falcons, finishing 14th in the opening round and winding up in a tie for 17th overall out of 45 participants. The next highest finisher for Friends was junior Skyler Miner (Chanute, KS), placing 26th.Coach Aaron Winter's comments: "We didn't play very well at either course, but it was good for a couple of the new guys to get through this tournament and see what it takes to compete for 36 holes in one day. it's a difficult test, but we'll have to do it at our conference tournament in the spring, so I wanted to make sure they knew what it's like – it didn't help that the weather was pretty bad though!"Falcon Individual Results:T17. Kesten Trebbe: 77+85=16226. Skyler Miner: 85+85=170T30. Danny Crippen: 89+88=17734. Andrew Trimble: 85+99=18436. Bradlee Perry: 90+96=186NP. Andrew Briggs: WD+86Team Results:1. Bethany College: 276+302=5782. Bethany 2: 306+323=6293. Kansas Wesleyan: 295+335=6304. OK Panhandle St: 322+330=6525. Haskell Indian Nation: 315+341=6566. Bethel: 323+348=6717. Friends: 336+354=6908. NW Kansas Tech: 337+390=727 Coach Winter's reflection on the fall season: "Taking all things into consideration – if I had to give us a grade for the fall I'd probably give us a C – and considering how young we are and what little tournament experience we have, that isn't all that bad.  We'll hold individual meetings and talk about what everyone needs to work on during the offseason, but a couple things across the board that everyone needs to get better with are easy for me to identify.  The first thing is they all need to get better with their putting – we're giving up far too many strokes every round on the greens.  The other thing is eliminating the big mistakes – in our last tournament alone just about everybody had at least one 9 (or worse) – of course the difficult conditions and tough greens play a big role in that, but numbers like that make it too difficult to recover from, and unfortunately we've seen several big numbers in most of our tournaments this fall.  Regardless what the situation is, all of these guys are good enough that they shouldn't be putting themselves in situations where they have to fight so hard to get strokes back during a round.  The good thing is it's usually just a silly mistake or a bad swing at the wrong time that leads to a bad score, so I don't think it's anything that we can't correct as the guys get more experience."Looking ahead to spring, I fully expect significant improvements out of everyone.  Of course we could have done better, but when I look at each individual player I see many more positives than negatives, and as a group I think we're capable of doing some pretty good things.  We had our best score in about two years at Sterling's tournament this fall, and not a single one of the guys played anywhere close to as good as they can.  I'm pretty excited to see how everyone comes back from our time off this winter.  Obviously it's tough to play a lot of golf during the offseason because we're so dependent upon the weather, but if the guys are able to work on some of the things they know they need to tighten up heading into the spring, there's no reason that we shouldn't all be optimistic for a much better spring."