Sports > October 4, 2007

By Ryan Durham | Sports editor

The Demon Deacon men’s golf team traveled to Makin-Sabot, Va., Oct. 1- 2 looking to improve on their seventh place finish at the Carpet Capital Classic and earn its first tournament win of the season.

Wake Forest got off to a rough start Oct. 1, finishing the day seventh out of 15 teams.

Senior Webb Simpson led the Deacs in the first day of competition shooting a 70 and 71 for three-under par on the day.

This finish was good enough to tie him for ninth place individually.

Freshman Chris Cannon finished the day with rounds of 74 and 72 to put him two-over par and in 34th place in his first collegiate appearance.

The Deacon team was rounded out by junior Dustin Groves, sophomore Brendan Gielow and senior Christ McCartin. Groves shot the lowest round of any Deacon with 69, but still finished the day at three-over par.

The team as a whole shot 575 or one-under, putting them 13 strokes behind tournament leaders Penn State and Wisconsin.

The Deacons had a lot of ground to make up in the second day of competition, which was led by the play of Cannon.

Cannon shot a stellar seven-under 65 in the final round of play, which was good enough to tie him for fourth place individually.

Simpson followed closely behind shooting even par on the day to finish in ninth place.

This performance was not good enough to outpace Monday’s leaders Penn State and Wisconsin, who finished with team scores of 845 and 848 respectively. This left the Deacs in third with 849 strokes.