BULLDOG BITS

Men's Golf

Both Hunter Logan and the No. 24 Mississippi State men's golf team closed the 43rd Schenkel Invitational in second place.

The Bulldogs finished 11 strokes behind the hosts, No. 19 Georgia Southern.

State totaled 26 birdies combined in the final round and 62 for the tournament, including four eagles. The Bulldogs finished the tournament at 16-under, marking the second time this season that State has finished 10 strokes under par or better. Four different players shot under par for the day.

Logan finished the tournament as the individual runner-up just one stroke behind the individual medalist, Georgia Southern's Ben Carr, who was competing on his home course. Logan shot two rounds in the 60s over the weekend, including a careerlow 65 in the first round and 69 on Sunday.

"I thought we really battled hard today," MSU head coach Dusty Smith said. "We showed a lot of character this week in how we competed and handled adversity this week. I'm really happy for Hunter in how he rebounded from the last tournament. It shows a lot about what he is made of."

Logan shot bogey-free on the back nine in the first round, as well as the front nine in the second and third rounds. His runner-up performance tied his career-best finish and gives him three career top-five finishes.

Ford Clegg posted his 12th career top-10 finish, shooting 3-under through three rounds. After ending the first round one stroke over, he bounced back with consecutive rounds of 70. Clegg carded 10 birdies and an eagle, along with a bogey-free front nine in the second round.

Ruan Pretorius finished just one stroke behind Clegg in 11th. He recorded 14 birdies through 54 holes, carding back-to-back birdies four separate times throughout the tournament. Pretorius also went bogey-free on 21 consecutive holes, from the second hole in the first round to the fourth hole in the second round.

Garrett Endicott tied for 24th, and Austin Vukovits ended play tied for 38th. Vukovits made five of his 10 tournament birdies consecutively in the final round.

"Austin did a great job of not giving up and giving our team a counting score today by making birdie on five of his last six holes," Smith said. "Ford, Ruan and Garrett were steady all week. We are excited to be hosting at Mossy Oak in a couple of weeks and look forward to preparing.”

The Bulldogs will return to play on April 3-4 when they host the Mossy Oak Collegiate at their home course at Mossy Oak Golf Club in West Point.

Women's Tennis

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Mississippi State women's tennis concluded a fourmatch road trip with a loss at No. 56 Arkansas 7-0 on Sunday afternoon.

The Razorbacks were the fifth ranked opponent the Bulldogs have faced this spring.

MSU dropped the doubles point to start things off. The duo of Emmanouela Antonaki and Dharani Niroshan battled with the 23rd-ranked tandem of Morgan Cross and Indianna Spink, but ended

STARKVILLE | SR | TRACK AND FIELD up falling 7-5. Gia Cohen and Maddie Bemisderfer fell to Lenka Stara and Grace O'donnell 6-2.

In singles, Alexandra Mikhailuk was the lone competitor from State to stretch her match to three sets. Mikhailuk dropped the first set 7-5 but bounced back to take the second set 6-4 and lost the final set in a super tiebreaker 10-8.

Antonaki, Bemisderfer, Niroshan and Emily Surcey all fell to their opponents in singles. Razorback Kelly Keller beat Antonaki 6-4, 6-4 while Bemisderfer fell to Morgan Cross 7-6(4), 6-0. Niroshan lost to Lenka Stara 6-4, 6-2 and Surcey dropped to Kacie Harvey 6-3, 7-6(2).

Cohen dropped her match to 68th-ranked Carolina Gomez 6-0, 6-2.

Mississippi State is back at home next Friday for the first time since March 5. The Bulldogs will host No. 18 Florida at 4 p.m.