LAUREL -- Three Orediggers earned top-10 results at the Montana Tech men's golf team played its way to a runner-up finish Tuesday on Day 2 of the Beartooth Invitational.
Joe McGreevey and
Tyler Avery tied for sixth for Montana Tech, both shooting 1-over-par 73s in Tuesday's third and final time around the par-72, 6,856-yard course at Laurel Golf Club. Both were 3-over for the tournament.
Freshman
Hudson Goroski finished two shots behind at 5-over; the Missoula product also carded 73 on Tuesday to place tied for eighth.
Montana Tech's men moved up a spot in the team standings after Tuesday's 9-over-par 297, besting third-place Bushnell by a stroke thanks to McGreevey's birdie on No. 18, his final hole of the tournament. The Orediggers were a 27-over 891 for the 54 holes.
Host Rocky Mountain won the team title at 17-under 847, and the Battlin' Bears Sam Norman took home medalist honors, shooting 16-under.
Christian Lund was the Orediggers' fourth-best round of the day, shooting 4-over 76 as an individual. The junior finished 24th on the leaderboard.
Trey Mattson (78),
Chase Choquette (79), and
Carson Hupka (81) rounded out Montana Tech's scoring six.
The Orediggers will play their third tournament in as many weeks this coming Monday and Tuesday, heading to Helena's Bill Roberts Golf Course for the Fighting Saints Invite, hosted by Carroll College. It will be the second and final Frontier Conference regular-season tournament of the fall season.
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