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Mar 8, 2010

Chattanooga in First Place After Two Rounds at 13th Annual Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate


Second Round Results

AIKEN, S.C. - Chattanooga finished the first two rounds of the 13th Annual Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate at the historic par 70, 6,565-yard Palmetto Golf Club with a team score of 562 to enter Tuesday's final round with the team lead.

Chattanooga followed up a first round 285 by carding a second round score of 277 to finish the first two rounds of the tournament four strokes ahead of second-place Liberty. The Flames, who concluded the 2009 Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate in second place, finished the opening day with a 566 (283-283). Furman is in third currently with a 569 (281-288).

Tournament host USC Aiken carded a team score of 294 in both the first and second rounds to end the first two rounds in ninth place with a score of 588.

Virgnia's Ben Kohles is the overall individual leader through two rounds with a seven-under-par 133. Kohles posted an even-par 70 in the first round before firing a Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate record 63 in the second round. Kohles' 63 bested Virginia Tech's Johnson Wagner's 64 that he secured in a single round in the 2002 Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate. The 63 also ties a Virginia single-round scoring record.

Kohles is three strokes ahead of second place Max McKay of Liberty. McKay currently owns a two-round tally of three-under-par 136 (71-65). Chattanooga's Stephan Jaeger is in third at 138 (69-69).

USC Aiken was led by Grant Carnie in the opening two rounds. The Brevard transfer is in a tie for 16th currently with a two-round score of 143 (71-72).

East Carolina's David Watkins had the best shot of the first round, collecting a hole-in-one on the par 3 212-yard 16th hole.  Watkins' eagle helped lead him to a 69 in the opening round. He was one of five to post an opening-round low round score of one-under-par 69.

The third and final round of the 54-hole 13th Annual Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate will begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, March 9.