GEORGETOWN, Texas – After rain postponed Round One at the West Invitational in Georgetown Texas, the Millsaps Majors Men's Golf Team was able to get a tremendous performance from freshman Lewis Peters as he shot a first round 71 followed by a second round 74 to take control of second place and lead the Majors to fourth overall (622).
 
"This golf course has two completely different sets of nines, the front nine is much more forgiving and more open where as the back nine is very narrow and difficult to place to ball in the proper spots,” said first year Golf Coach Eddie Brescher. “The difficulty of the back nine showed today as all of our players scores were much higher on the back nine.”
 
Peters stole the show early on as he finished his first round in first place, shooting an opening round 71 (-1) to lead the tournament early on and propel Millsaps to second overall in the tournament. He then responded with a 74 in Round Two to drop down to second place (+2) as he remains two strokes off the leader, Jack Cersosimo from Concordia who shot the lowest round of the second round with a 70 (E, overall).
 
"Lewis is playing some very solid golf,” added Brescher. “I am proud of the way he handled himselfafter having his first college lead with his 71 on the first round."
 
Sophomore Drew Richardson shot a 75 in the first round as he played extremely well, but struggled in the second round as he shot an 82 to drop him down to T-15th in the tournament. Sophomore Thomas Baxter did the opposite as he got off to a slow start in Round One, shooting a 82 before returning on Day Two to shoot a 77 to jump up to 22nd place. Rounding out the Majors is sophomore Chris Patton, who's tied for 33rd (82, 81) and freshman Garrett Barnes who sits T-49th (85, 83).
 
"We still have a chance to win this event,” exclaimed Brescher. “Tomorrow we will try to go out and play smart, patient golf, our guys are always grinding till the end to get every shot out of a round.  We look to play much better tomorrow and move up the leaderboard."
 
The Majors look to finish strong in the Final Round tomorrow morning before the SCAC Tournament at the end of the month.