March 13, 2005
ATLANTA – Roberto Castro shot three-over-par Sunday and moved into a tie for 15th place individually, while No. 2-ranked Georgia Tech posted a nine-over-par team score of 297 to finish sixth place at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Golf Championship in Las Vegas, Nev.
Tech (297-283-297 – 877) finished sixth, seven strokes ahead of conference foe Wake Forest (297-283-304 – 884), 22-strokes behind host team and champion UNLV (294-281-280 – 855). Georgia finished in second place, with Florida, top-ranked Oklahoma State and Arizona State rounding out the top-five.
Castro finished the tournament two-over-par after carding a 75 in the final round. The Alpharetta, Ga. native finished tied for 15th just nine stokes off the leader Mark Anderson of South Carolina.
Chan Song and Nicholas Thompson finished tied for 25th at six-over-par, while Kevin Larsen and Mike Barbosa were both at +8 to finish 35th.
SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS COLLEGIATE Southern Highlands Golf Club, Las Vegas, Nev. – Par 72 Final-Round Results
TEAM RESULTS1 UNLV -9 294-281-280--8552 Georgia +6 296-281-293--8703 Florida +8 296-290-286--8724 Oklahoma St. +10 292-284-298--8745 Arizona State +12 288-288-300--8766 Georgia Tech +13 297-283-297--8777 Wake Forest +20 297-283-304--8848 S. Carolina +26 290-296-304--8909 UCLA +27 290-303-298--891T10 New Mexico +32 303-289-304--896T10 TCU +32 300-296-300--89612 Washington +37 293-303-305--90113 Clemson +39 300-297-306--90314 Auburn +41 299-300-306--90515 Texas +44 302-302-304--908
INDIVIDUAL LEADERST1 Mark Anderson, South Carolina -7 66-72-71--209T1 Daniel Im, UCLA -7 66-75-68--2093 Ryan Moore, UNLV -5 73-67-71--2114 Travis Whisman, UNLV -4 75-73-64--2125 Matt Every, Florida -3 77-67-69--213T6 David Denham, Georgia -1 72-70-73--215T6 Chris Kirk, Georgia -1 76-71-68--215T6 Spencer Levin, New Mexico -1 73-67-75--215T6 Matthew Rosenfeld, Texas -1 69-76-70--215T10 Sam Hunt, UNLV E 72-71-73--216T10 J.J. Killeen, TCU E 73-70-73--216T10 Pablo Martin, Oklahoma State E 75-68-73--216T10 Zack Robinson, Oklahoma State E 70-72-74--21614 Pat Moore, Arizona State +1 73-70-74--217T15 Roberto Castro, Georgia Tech +2 74-69-75--218T15 Kyle Reifers, Wake Forest +2 76-67-75--218T15 Brett Stegmaier, Florida +2 74-76-68--218
GEORGIA TECH SCOREST15 Roberto Castro +2 74-69-75--218T25 Chan Song +6 79-71-72--222T25 Nicholas Thompson +6 74-72-76--222T35 Kevin Larsen +8 79-71-74--224T35 Mike Barbosa +8 70-74-80--224
-GT GOLF-