Tournament set for Monday and Tuesday
 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Set for their second tournament of the season, the University of Evansville men’s golf team travels to Chesterton, Indiana for the Valpo Fall Invitational.
Featuring a total of 54 holes, the Purple Aces will play two rounds on Monday with an 8 a.m. CT start before Tuesday’s final round opens with tee times ranging from 7:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. CT. Sand Creek Country Club is the host course for the event and teams will be playing the Creek/Marsh rotation at the club. Yardage is 7,052 and the par is set for 72.
Seventeen teams are slated to play in the event including DePaul, Purdue Fort Wayne, Youngstown State, Utah State, Green Bay, Bradley, Evansville, Missouri State, Cleveland State, IUPUI, Western Illinois, Loyola, Robert Morris, Detroit Mercy, Northern Kentucky, North Dakota and Valparaiso.
Nicholas Gushrowski was the top finisher for UE in its first event of the season as the Aces competed in the Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational two weeks ago. Gushrowski came home in the 16th position and shot a low score of 70 in the second out of three rounds. His 3-round total was a 218. Five strokes behind him was Carson Parker. A consistent start to the season saw his scores finish at 73-74-76.
Michael Ikejiani and Caleb Wassmer rounded out UE’s top four players. Ikejiani tallied 228 strokes over the three rounds while Wassmer checked in with a 230.
