ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. – Milligan University's men's golf team concluded Monday and Tuesday's Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) Fall Preview at the Barnsley Resort in Adairsville, Ga. by ending up in sixth place out of 13 total schools, as the squad ended up with a pair of top-25 individual finishers.

Aidan Sinclair got stronger as the tournament went on, carding rounds of 81 and 77 on day one, before finishing with a highly respectable 74 in the final round on Tuesday. With his efforts, he earned a tie for 21st place at 15-over-par with 232 strokes.

It was Francisco de Bethencourt who managed the second-best score of a Milligan golfer, finishing at +17 and in a tie for 23rd place. His event began with a tough round of 78 strokes, before he began the second round at -3 through 10 holes, but a +10 stretch on the final eight holes gave him a 79 for the round. He concluded with a 76, carding his top score of the tournament to total 233 shots for the tourney.

The freshman from Spain, Jorge Rodriguez, came in with the third score for the Buffs, as he was able to card a +24 for the event. Incredibly, he shot the same 80-stroke score in all three rounds, finishing 42nd as an individual.

Hugo Lundberg ended up just three strokes back of Rodriguez, tying for 47th place with 243 strokes. He improved his score by one shot each round, ending up with an 82, 81 and 80. Lundberg's 82 and 80 counted toward the final team score.

Hjalmar Liljenberg (T-63rd) finished the tournament with a 36-over-par score of 252 strokes. His second-round score of 78 would count toward the final team score, however, that output was sandwiched by a pair of untenable 87-shot rounds.

Evan Caldwell, who played solely as an individual, tied for 35th place. He had a pair of rounds in which he took 81 strokes, which enveloped a round in which he tallied only 75, representing the second-best round by a Milligan golfer for the event.

Milligan's Carson Murphy (80th, +61) also competed individually.

The Buffaloes totaled 945 shots across the three rounds they took part in, improving gradually as a team each round. They started with 321 in the opening round, which put them in 10th place. Luckily, rounds of 314 and 310 in the final two helped them climb as high as fifth place, and to their final resting place in sixth.

Milligan's fall campaign has now come to an end, as they look forward to the spring schedule in 2027 for a chance to jump up the conference ranks.

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