Tournament: CCAA Championships
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Location: Riverside, Calif.
Course: Victory Club (par-72 / 6,537 yards)
CSUSM's Place:  1st out of 8 teams (854, -10)
Top Cougar: T8. Matt Pennington (213, -3)
Individual Medalist: Chico State's Dakota Ochoa (206, -10)

COURSE REPORT:  The No. 17/12 Cal State San Marcos men's golf team stormed up the leaderboard to capture the program's first CCAA Championship victory after firing a third-round low 2-under 286 to finish with a 10-under 854.
 
FIRST TEE

• Matt Pennington finished in the top 10 with a share of eighth place after posting a three-round 3-under 213 (67-72-74) total.
• Cutter Ayres, Matthew Moss, Greg Mouser and Jason McElroy finished in a six-way tie with Andy Yoon of Cal State Dominguez Hills and Simon Bjorken of Cal State Monterey Bay after carding a 1-over 217.
• Moss posted a 2-under 70 in the final round while McElroy and Ayres both turned in a 1-over 71.

TEAM SCOREBOARD
1. Cal State San Marcos 278-290-286 – 854 (-10); 2. Cal State Monterey Bay 275-287-293 – 855 (-9); 3. Cal State San Bernardino 288-281-287 – 856 (-8); 4. Stanislaus State 284-287-287 – 858 (-6); 5. Sonoma State 295-283-290 – 868 (+4); 6. Chico State 291-293-285 – 869 (+5); 7. Cal State East Bay 289-281-301 – 871 (+7); 8. Cal State Dominguez Hills 286-296-294 – 876 (+12).
 
INDIVIDUAL SCOREBOARD
1. Dakota Ochoa (Chico) 72-66-68 – 206 (-10); 2. Jack Deaner (CSUMB) 69-70-69 – 208 (-8); 3. Chris Ebster (Stan State) 69-73-69 – 211 (-5); T4. Jules Lavigne (SSU) 72-71-69 – 212 (-4); T4. Liam Allder (CSUMB) 69-71-72 – 212 (-4); T4. Chris Chomyn (Stan State) 70-69-73 – 212 (-4); T4. Jetty Sivongsay (CSUSB) 70-66-76 – 212 (-4); T8. Matt Pennington (CSUSM) 67-72-74 – 213 (-3); T8. Tyler Ashman (Chico) 72-72-69 – 213 (-3);  T10. Colin Huang (SSU) 75-69-70 – 214 (-2); T10. John Kim (CSUSB) 73-69-72 – 214 (-2); T10. Easton Hether 67-69-76 – 214 (-2); OTHER CSUSM SCORERS: T15. Matthew Moss 69-78-70 – 217 (+1); T15. Greg Mouser 70-72-75 – 217 (+1); T15. Cutter Ayres 72-74-71 – 217 (+1); T15. Jason McElroy 74-72-71 – 217 (+1).
 
INSIDE THE SCORECARD

• CSUSM won the tournament by one stroke, passing two-day leader Cal State Monterey Bay (855, -9).
• Chico State's Dakota Ochoa fired Wednesday's lowest score, a 4-under 68, to be crowned the CCAA Champion.
• CSUSM tallied the lowest Par 3 scoring (3.12, +9) of the tournament.
• For the tournament, 32.5 percent (39-of-120) of the scores were under par.
   

UP NEXT
With the win, the Cougars received the program's first-ever automatic bid to the NCAA Division II West/South Central Regional on May 11-13 in Rohnert Park.