Lee University’s seventh school year as an official NCAA member will soon come to a close.
Thanks to the men’s golf team, the Flames can wrap it up knowing their first Division II team national championship is coming home to Cleveland, Tennessee.
Lee was dominant in Friday’s championship medal match in Dearborn, Michigan, with the third-ranked Flames winning 4-1 against No. 7 Oklahoma Christian behind victories from Beck Burnette, Oliver Lewis-Perkins, Dustin DeMersseman and Connor Pollman. Lee’s other player was Dalton Chuba, who lost by two strokes but had helped the Flames reach the final day with his four-stroke win in Thursday’s 3-2 semifinal victory against Georgia Southwestern.
After finishing second to Central Missouri on Wednesday after three rounds of stroke play at TPC Michigan, the Flames started their title run in medal matches with a 4-1 win against top-ranked Barry University in Thursday’s quarterfinals.
In a Flames release, Lee director of golf John Maupin said the team lived up to it motto of being “tough, calm and closers.”