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Razorbacks surge back at SEC Championship, move on
Arkansas played the second nine holes 9-under par Friday, vaulting up six spots on the leaderboard and qualifying for match play at the 2018 SEC Championship.
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Arkansas played the second nine holes 9-under par Friday, vaulting up six spots on the leaderboard and qualifying for match play at the 2018 SEC Championship.
The Razorbacks opened the day in 11th place but played to a 6-under 274 moving up into a tie for fifth place by day’s end.
The top eight teams advance to match play beginning on Saturday. Teams will play a morning match with the four winning teams returning to the course for an afternoon match.
That cuts the field to two teams who will meet on Sunday to determine the league champion.
Sophomore William Buhl paced the Razorbacks and finished T3 overall shooting 207.
His rounds of 70-68-69 were all even or under-par and his finish is the best at the league championship since Sebastian Cappelen’s win in 2013.
It is the ninth top-10 individual finish at the SEC Championship under head coach Brad McMakin.
Buhl and the Razorbacks opened their day on the back nine at Sea Island Golf Club and he struggled early in the round turning at plus-4.
Five birdies on the second nine sent him to the clubhouse with a 1-under 69.
Mason Overstreet, Alvaro Ortiz and Luis Garza all tied or bettered their previous round scores in the final day of stroke play.
Overstreet was nearly flawless in his round three 66, tying for the best score of the day.
His scorecard had five birdies and one bogey as he moved up 19 spots while helping the Razorbacks climb the leaderboard. Overstreet finished T16 shooting 211 with rounds of 71-74-66.
Ortiz and Garza also moved up in the final round on Friday. Ortiz collected five birdies and Garza added four in his round as the duo finished T36 shooting 217.
Tyson Reeder rounded out the Razorback scoring shooting 73-72-78=223 and finishing T59.
The No.11 LSU Tigers finished first in stroke play and were nine shots better than the rest of the field. The rest of the top-8 included No. 4 Vanderbilt and No. 7 Florida tied with 834.
No. 6 Alabama, No. 9 Auburn and No. 16 Arkansas all tied for fifth with 848 and No. 34 Ole Miss and No. 2 Texas A&M rounding out the top eight shooting 851.
The Lineup
| PLACE | PLAYER | SCORE | TO PAR |
|---|---|---|---|
| T3 | William Buhl (4) | 70–68–69—207 | -3 |
| T16 | Mason Overstreet (2) | 71–74–66—211 | +1 |
| T36 | Alvaro Ortiz (1) | 75–74–68—217 | +7 |
| T36 | Luis Garza (3) | 75–71–71—217 | +7 |
| T59 | Tyson Reeder (5) | 73–72–78—223 | +13 |
The Field
| PLACE | TEAM | SCORE | TO PAR |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No. 11 LSU | 281-276-277=834 | -6 |
| T2 | No. 7 Florida | 293-278-272=843 | +3 |
| No. 4 Vanderbilt | 276-283-284=843 | +3 | |
| T4 | No. 9Auburn | 280-286-282=848 | +8 |
| No. 16 Arkansas | 289-285-274=848 | +8 | |
| No. 6 Alabama | 283-280-385=848 | +8 | |
| T7 | No. 34 Ole Miss | 288-277-386=851 | +11 |
| No. 2 Texas A&M | 296-277-278=851 | +11 | |
| 9 | No. 50 Tennessee | 280-290-284=854 | +14 |
| 10 | No. 19 Kentucky | 286-283-287=856 | +16 |
| 11 | Georgia | 291-282-289=862 | +22 |
| 12 | Mississippi State | 293-284-287=864 | +24 |
| 13 | No. 38 South Carolina | 288-287-290=865 | +25 |
| 14 | No. 39 Missouri | 287-296-290=873 | +33 |
Match Play Pairings
1 LSU-8 Texas A&M
2 Florida-7 Ole Miss (with a repeat matchup of Zhang and Wegener)
3 Vanderbilt-6 Alabama
4 Auburn-5 Arkansas
Jovan Rebula (AU) vs. Tyson Reeder (Ark.)
Trace Crowe (AU) vs. Luis Garza (Ark.)
Brandon Mancheno (AU) vs. Alvaro Ortiz (Ark.)
Ryan Knop (AU) vs. Mason Overstreet (Ark.)
Wells Padgett (AU) vs. William Buhl (Ark.)
Live Scoring: http://bit.ly/2HzuhjN
Watch: SEC Network at 3 p.m.
| Thu, Aug 29 |  | vs UAPB (Little Rock) | W, 70-0 |
| Sat, Sep 7 |  | @ Oklahoma State | L, 31-39 2OT |
| Sat, Sep 14 |  | vs UAB | W, 37-27 |
| Sat, Sep 21 |  | @ Auburn | W, 24-14 |
| Sat, Sep 28 |  | vs Texas A&M (Arl) | L, 21-17 |
| Sat, Oct 5 |  | vs Tennessee | W, 19-14 |
| Sat, Oct 19 |  | vs LSU | L, 34-10 |
| Sat, Oct 26 |  | @ Mississippi State | W, 58-25 |
| Sat, Nov 2 |  | vs Ole Miss | L, 63-31 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Texas | 11:00 AM ABC |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | vs Louisiana Tech | 3:00 PM ESPN+/SECN+ |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | @ Missouri | 2:30 or 3:30 PM TBA |
| Following is the Arkansas Sports Media High School Football Poll including the Overall Top 10, the top five in Classes 7A, 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A and 2A, plus the top three in the 8-man division, as voted by a panel of sports media from around the state for the week ending August 24. Ranking is given with first-place votes received, records, total points and ranking from last week's poll: | ||||
| OVERALL | Record | Pts | Prv | |
| 1. | Bryant (25) | 10-0 | 268 | 1 |
| 2. | Greenwood (2) | 10-0 | 234 | 3 |
| 30 | Conway | 9-1 | 202 | 2 |
| 4. | Little Rock Parkview | 9-1 | 171 | 4 |
| 5. | Bentonville | 7-3 | 162 | 5 |
| 6. | Benton | 9-1 | 148 | 6 |
| 7. | Fayetteville | 8-2 | 111 | 7 |
| 8. | Pulaski Academy | 8-2 | 89 | 8 |
| 9. | Rogers | 7-3 | 43 | 9 |
| 10. | Joe T. Robinson | 9-1 | 22 | — |
| Others receiving votes: Valley View 8, Mountain Home 7, Cabot 6, Little Rock Catholic 6, Shiloh Christian 6, Elkins 1, Farmington 1. | ||||
| CLASS 7A | ||||
| 1. | Bryant (27) | 10-0 | 135 | 1 |
| 2. | Conway | 9-1 | 102 | 2 |
| 3. | Bentonville | 7-3 | 81 | 3 |
| 4. | Fayetteville | 8-2 | 45 | 4 |
| 5. | Pulaski Academy | 8-2 | 39 | 5 |
| Others receiving votes: Rogers 3. | ||||
| CLASS 6A | ||||
| 1. | Greenwood (27) | 10-0 | 135 | 1 |
| 2. | Benton | 9-1 | 108 | 2 |
| 3. | Mountain Home | 8-2 | 62 | 3 |
| 4. | Shiloh Christian | 7-3 | 49 | 4 |
| 5. | Little Rock Catholic | 9-1 | 34 | 5 |
| Others receiving votes: Marion 6. | ||||
| CLASS 5A | ||||
| 1. | Little Rock Parkview (27) | 9-1 | 135 | 1 |
| 2. | Joe T. Robinson | 9-1 | 106 | 2 |
| 3. | Valley View | 10-0 | 79 | 3 |
| 4. | Farmington | 9-1 | 48 | 4 |
| 5. | Hot Springs Lakeside | 8-2 | 20 | 5 |
| Others receiving votes: Camden Fairview 7, Harding Academy 7, Morrilton 3. | ||||
| CLASS 4A | ||||
| 1. | Elkins (20) | 10-0 | 126 | 1 |
| 3. | Arkadelphia (5) | 8-2 | 91 | 3 |
| 2. | Little Rock Mills (1) | 10-0 | 68 | 2 |
| 4. | Warren | 8-2 | 55 | 4 |
| 5. | Dardanell (1) | 9-1 | 23 | — |
| Southside Batesville | 10-0 | 23 | — | |
| Others receiving votes: Malvern 12, Gravette 5, Highland 2. | ||||
| CLASS 3A | ||||
| 1. | Bismarck (12) | 10-0 | 105 | 1t |
| 2. | Fordyce (10) | 10-0 | 96 | 1t |
| 3. | Prescott (1) | 9-1 | 70 | 4 |
| 4. | Osceola (2) | 8-1 | 54 | 3 |
| 5. | Booneville (1) | 9-1 | 39 | 5 |
| Others receiving votes: Mansfield (1) 23, Rivercrest 10, Rison 4, Salem 4. | ||||
| CLASS 2A | ||||
| 1. | Carlisle (20) | 10-0 | 127 | 1 |
| 2. | Conway Christian (7) | 10-0 | 115 | 2 |
| 3. | Des Arc | 8-2 | 59 | 5 |
| 4. | East Poinsett Co. | 7-3 | 52 | — |
| 5. | Bigelow | 6-4 | 18 | 3 |
| Murfreesboro | 7-3 | 18 | 4 | |
| Others receiving votes: Mount Ida 6, Junction City 4, Cross County 3, Poyen 3. | ||||
| 8-MAN SANCTIONED | ||||
| 1. | Strong-Huttig (27) | 5-0 | 81 | 1 |
| 2. | Midland | 9-0 | 53 | 2 |
| 3. | Cedar Ridge | 8-1 | 25 | 3 |
| Others receiving votes: Woodlawn 3. | ||||