Owls struggle in spring season opener

Temple opened its spring season with a 17th-place finish at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate in Aiken, South Carolina on Monday and Tuesday.

Temple finished the three-round event with a cumulative score of 909, which was 69 strokes over par. The Owls placed second-to-last in a field dominated by southern schools like Coastal Carolina University, East Carolina and Clemson University, the first-place finisher. The southern schools can practice outdoors during the winter because of the warmer climate, but none of the Owls were interested in making excuses.

“I personally was completely unprepared,” said sophomore Sam Soeth, who tied for 87th with redshirt-freshman Erik Reisner.…