{"id":229017,"date":"2025-10-21T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:32:09","slug":"mens-golf-in-fourth-after-day-1-of-dayton-flyer-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229017\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf in Fourth after Day 1 of Dayton Flyer Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTON, Ohio &#8211; The Ball State men&#8217;s golf team completed its first day at the Dayton Flyer Invitational with the Cardinals being led by freshman,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/luke-johnston\/12853\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12853\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Johnston<\/a>, who helped BSU finish the day in fourth place out of the 12-teams.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Cardinals sit atop the three Mid-American Conference teams competing at the tournament leading Toledo by a shot and up eleven strokes on Ohio.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJohnston had another standout 36-hole performance after shooting four under par 67\u00a0in the second round that included an eagle and four birdies. Johnston&#8217;s strong second round puts him in fifth place overall out of 82 golfers.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFinishing the day behind Johnston was fellow freshmen, <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/samuel-harris\/12851\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12851\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Harris<\/a>, who completed the day at four over par, that included a second round 71. Harris currently sits in 21st place.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn total, the Cardinals turned in 24 birdies and led the field in par 5 scoring on the par 71, 7004-yard South Course at the NCR Country Club.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBall State will tee off for the third and final round beginning at 8:45 am ET tomorrow morning, paired with the leaders.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBall State Men&#8217;s Golf Results Day One Dayton Invite<br \/>\n\u00a05th &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/luke-johnston\/12853\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12853\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Johnston<\/a>: -4 (34+33=67)<br \/>\n21st &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/samuel-harris\/12851\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12851\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Harris<\/a>: E (34+37=71)<br \/>\nT30 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/cameron-young\/12854\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12854\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Young<\/a>: +6 (35+33=73)<br \/>\nT45 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/avery-mahoney\/12184\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12184\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Mahoney<\/a>: +8 (38+36=74)<br \/>\nT45 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/carter-smith\/11197\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11197\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Smith<\/a>: +8 (39+35=74)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIndividuals<br \/>\n\u00a0T30 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/brody-sorrell\/12852\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12852\" target=\"_blank\">Brody Sorrell<\/a>: +6 (36+37=73)<br \/>\nT75 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/happy-gilmore\/12182\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12182\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Gilmore<\/a>: +17 (38+40=78)<br \/>\n64\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/aidan-gutierrez\/12850\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12850\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Gutierrez<\/a>: +13 (40+40=80)<br \/>\nT75 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/gavin-hare\/12183\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12183\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Hare<\/a>: +17 (43+39=82)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON, Ohio &#8211; The Ball State men&#8217;s golf team completed its first day at the Dayton Flyer Invitational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-229017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}