Grizzlies bring home the hardware at OCAA golf championships
Oct. 6, 2016
Top row (left to right): Assistant coach Esmond Clothier, Addison Wallwin, Sady Beelik, Jon Collins, Mitch Ahrens, Matt Lemay, Danny Watts, Josh Lynch. Kneeling: Emilie Tyndall, head coach Greg Hickey.
The Georgian Grizzlies men’s and women’s golf teams wrapped up the 2016 OCAA Golf Championships in style on Wednesday with a strong medal haul.
Georgian played host to the championships presented by belairdirect which was held at the National Pines Golf Club in Innisfil. A total of 85 men’s and women’s golfers took part over three rounds of golf.
Georgian’s women’s team members defended their title as gold medalists for the second straight year. The Grizzlies team of Addison Wallwin, Emilie Tyndall and Sady Beelik combined for a score of 474 over the three rounds to finish 15-strokes up on the second place team from Humber College.
Wallwin, a Barrie native, took home the silver medal in the women’s individual competition finishing just one stroke back from gold medalist, Lorelle Weavers of Niagara College. Wallwin was named a CCAA All-Canadian while she and teammate Emilie Tyndall, who finished fourth overall, were both named to the OCAA All-Ontario Team.
This is the second time the Georgian women’s team has repeated as gold medalists as they also accomplished the feat winning consecutive gold medals in 2000, 2001 and 2002. This is the sixth consecutive year the Grizzlies have medaled in the women’s event with two gold, two silver and two bronze medals during that stretch.
The men’s team of Matt Lemay, Jon Collins, Mitch Ahrens, Danny Watts and Josh Lynch won a silver medal in a tight competition that had the top three teams separated by a total of just eight strokes over the three rounds of play. The Grizzlies finished just two strokes behind the gold medalists from Niagara College in the Division I event. Lemay was the top placing Grizzlies men’s golfer finishing in fifth and was named to the OCAA All-Ontario team while Ahrens and Watts finished tied for sixth.
This completes another impressive stretch for the men’s team as they have now medaled in eight straight OCAA Golf Championships (six silver, two bronze).
Both of the men’s and women’s golf teams have now qualified for the 2016 PING CCAA Golf National Championships which take place Oct. 17 – 21 at Fox Meadow Golf Club in Prince Edward Island, hosted by Holland College.