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COLUMBUS, Ohio - The No. 2 Illinois Wesleyan University men's golf team successfully defended its title at the Gordin Collegiate Classic Tuesday, Oct. 1, as the Titans shot a final-round 278 to win the team trophy by six strokes at 24-under par. Illinois Wesleyan fired an 840 over 54-holes of play, the best three-round score in 30+ years, at the par-72, 7,098-yard Columbus Country Club en route to its third tournament win of the season.

IWU came out on top of a extremely tough field that featured 11 nationally ranked teams. No. 3 Huntingdon finished runner-up with an 846, while No. 1 Emory took third with an 853. No. 5 Guilford and No. 4 Wittenberg tied for fourth with three-round scores of 864.

Junior Rob Wuethrich (Bloomington, Ill.-Normal Community HS) used four birdies on the back-nine to capture individual medalist honors with a final-round 68. Wuethrich finished the tournament with a three-round score of 206, three shots better than his previous 54-hole low, to edge out Huntingdon's Drew Mathers and notch the fifth win of his career.

Sophomores Jimmy Morton (Sugar Grove, Ill.-Marmion Academy) and Carl Christiansen (Naperville, Ill.-Naperville North HS) also turned in career-best performances as the duo finished inside the top-five. Morton tied the best single round of his career with a four-under 68 to rank tied for third at 209, while Christiansen set a career-best with a three-under 69 to claim a share of fifth. It was the fifth top-five finish for Morton and the highest finish in Christiansen's career.

Junior Andrew Abel (Geneva, Ill.-Geneva HS) and senior Skylar LeVine (Morton Grove, Ill.-Niles West HS) tied for 25th following rounds of 73 and 74, respectively, to wrap up play with 54-hole totals of 217. 

The Titans wrap up the fall portion of the schedule at the Golfweek NCAA Division III Fall Preview Oct. 13-15 at Sandestin Golf Resort in Destin, Fla. 

Individual Results
1. Rob Wuethrich (70-68-68=206)
t3. Jimmy Morton (72-69-68=209)
t5. Carl Christiansen (71-71-69=211)
t25. Andrew Abel (75-69-73=217)
t25. Skylar LeVine (72-71-74=217)

Team Leaderboard
1. Illinois Wesleyan (285-277-278=840)
2. Huntingdon (285-280-281=846)
3. Emory (290-278-285=853
t4. Guilford (283-296-285=864)
t4. Wittenberg (289-280-295=864)
6. Methodist (297-281-288=866)
7. Hampden-Sydney (286-289-295=870)
8. Oglethorpe (285-298-291=874)
9. Piedmont (295-285-298=878)
t10. Washington & Lee (294-296-292=882)
t10. Greensboro (290-297-296=882)
12. Carnegie Melon (290-298-296=884)
13. Ohio Wesleyan (299-291-298=888)
14. Berry (297-291-301=889)
15. Rhodes (305-294-302=906)