Word: ncaas
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Crimson golf captain Alex Vik thought the season had ended for him after the Easterns, but then the NCAA selection committee decided he deserved a shot at playing in the granddaddy of collegiate golf tournaments. Vik will tee off with 185 other contestants from 29 schools this Wednesday in his third NCAA tournament in as many years. The four-day 72-hole event is being held at the Colgate golf course in Hamilton...
...finished ninth in the NCAA New England area qualifying tournament, played at the Pleasant Valley Country Club earlier in the season. Only the tourney medalist and runner-up qualify for the NCAA automatically, so it looked like Yale's Peter Tervainen and Holy Cross's Fred Radcliffe had beaten Vik out--at least until the selection committee decided he merited an invitation...
...course, which once included 13 water holes, is being remodeled for the occasion at an estimated cost of $10,000 per hole. It is the first time in ten years that a course in the East has been picked to host the NCAA tournament, and the first time the event has been played in New York state in 44 years...
...pushed the lead to 14-3. Hopkins did break through five times in the final stanza, but it is doubtful that anyone was paying attention by then. Cornell's eventual 16-8 margin was the most lop-sided in the seven-year history of the NCAA final...
With the victory, the Ivy League champions became the first team to take three titles and the first team to win back-to-back crowns since the NCAA held its first tournament in 1971. Back in the days when the champion was selected on the basis of regular season records, Navy won eight straight titles starting in 1960, sharing the crown twice, but winning five straight outright starting...