Cowboy Rally Comes Up Short At NCAA Championship

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Scottsdale, Ariz./Grayhawk Golf Club

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Oklahoma State University

NCAA Championship

May 31, 2022 | Cowboy Golf

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Oklahoma State's men's golf team saw its run at the NCAA Championship come to an end with a 3-2 loss to Texas on Tuesday morning in the quarterfinal round of match play at Grayhawk Golf Club.

Competing in the match play bracket for the ninth time, OSU fell to 6-3 all time in the quarterfinal round. Additionally, the Cowboys have competed at the event in 74 of a possible 75 seasons and have now finished in the top five on 57 occasions.

In the opening match, Parker Coody got Texas on the board, taking down OSU sophomore Bo Jin, 3 and 2. Starting on the back nine, Jin won the second hole of the match before Coody tied it two holes later and grabbed a lead he would not surrender at the 16th.

Cole Hammer added the second point of the match for the Longhorns with a 3-and-2 victory of his own over senior Aman Gupta in the anchor match. Like Jin, Gupta grabbed an early 1-up lead before Hammer won three of four holes down the stretch on the opening nine. Gupta would get within one with seven holes remaining before Hammer extended his lead with wins over the next two holes.

Junior Brian Stark got OSU on the board with a 2-up victory over Travis Vick in the second match out. Vick won the first before Stark answered at the second and won the 14th and 15th to turn with a 2-up lead. Vick cut the margin in half with a win at the second hole and tied the match at the sixth before Stark closed it out with wins over two of the final three holes.

In a battle of two of the nation's premier players, OSU senior Eugenio Chacarra took down Pierceson Coody, 1 up, to pull the Cowboys even. Chacarra, who was named a first-team All-American earlier in the day, never trailed in the contest and grabbed his first lead on the match's second hole. He would make the turn with a 3-up advantage. Coody would chip away with wins at the first and third before Chacarra would answer quickly with wins at Nos .4 and 5. However, Coody would once again draw within one after winning the seventh and eighth before Chacarra sealed the outcome with a par at the ninth to tie the hole.

The outcome came down to the final hole of the matchup between sophomore Jonas Baumgartner and Mason Nome. After losing the first, Baumgartner tied the match on two separate occasions on the outward nine before Nome would build a 2-up lead at the halfway point. The advantage would grow to 4-up before Baumgartner would battle back with three consecutive wins to get within one with two to play. Both players birdied the par-3 eighth before Nome closed out the match with a birdie at the ninth for a 2-up victory.