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March 15, 2008

LIHUE, Hawai'i - Gonzaga University sophomore Brandon Crick shot a final-round 79 Saturday to finish tied for second at the 9th annual Kaua'i Collegiate Cup hosted by Western Kentucky University at the Princeville Resort-Makai Golf Course.

Gonzaga finished third as a team as Vanderbilt University out-distanced the field by 28 strokes to take championship honors.

Leading the way for Vanderbilt was sophomore Hudson Johnson, who was in eighth place heading into the final 18. He set a single-round record for tournament play on the 88-year-old course, racing through Saturday's 18 holes in a remarkable 63 to notch a six-under 210 and take medalist honors.

Only three other sub-70 scores were recorded on the 6,981-yard, par 72 layout, all 69s, by Crick and the Vanderbilt duo of Jon Curran and Billy Whalen.

Crick had rounds of 75-70-69 for a 54-hole score of 214 to tie with Curran and Oklahoma Christian University's Rhein Gibson, the 36-hole leader.

The Bulldogs Trevor Loe was in a four-way logjam for 12th with rounds of 75-74-74 for 223.

Gonzaga posted rounds of 301-297-295, finishing 10 strokes behind runner-up OCU, the top-ranked team in NAIA golf.

Johnson's record performance also set a new standard for the Kaua'i Collegiate Cup, bettering the old mark of 64 set by WKU's Robbie Shaw in the Hilltoppers' tournament victory at the Princeville Makai Course in 2005.