DUNCAN, Okla. (Oct. 19, 2021) – "Firsts" are rare for a program that has accomplished as much as Oklahoma Christian's has the past 22 seasons, but the Eagles recorded one on Tuesday at The Territory Golf and Country Club.

For the fifth straight year, OC – ranked No. 11 in NCAA Division II – won the tournament hosted by Cameron that's now known as The Hrnciar, pulling away in the final round for a 13-shot victory over No. 18 Texas A&M-Commerce, with No. 19 Midwestern State (Texas) another six shots behind TAMUC, third in the 10-team field.

Coach David Lynn's Eagles now have won 76 tournaments in program history. Before Tuesday, they'd won four straight titles in only two events – The Hrnciar and the spring Sleep Inn and Suites Classic, from 2005 to 2008 at River Oaks Golf Club in Oklahoma City.

OC closed its current fall season with three tournament wins, along with a fourth-place finish in a 17-team tournament hosted by Arkansas State that otherwise included all Division I schools. The Eagles didn't lose to a Division II opponent all semester.

The Eagles almost picked up what would have been a third individual title of the fall, but Mateo Pulcini's rally from eight shots down to start the round fell just short. Even so, his even-par 72 lifted the Rio Cuarto, Argentina, sophomore into a second-place finish in the field of 60 at 217 (1-over), three shots behind Tripp Wallace of TAMUC.

Wallace began the day with a six-shot lead over the second-place golfer, with Pulcini even further back in fifth. But Pulcini birdied three of the first seven holes and steadily narrowed the gap, closing within a shot of Wallace late in the round before Wallace birdied the par-3 No. 17 while Pulcini recorded a double bogey. Pulcini recorded his second top-two individual finish of the semester, having recorded his first collegiate win last month in the Missouri Southern Fall Invitational.

OC began Tuesday with a two-shot lead over TAMUC, but fast starts by Pulcini and senior Andres Brictson of Merida, Mexico – who birdied the first three holes on The Territory's 7,110-yard layout – widened the Eagles' advantage and neither the Lions nor Midwestern State made a serious run after that. OC posted a final-round team score of 293 to finish at 876 for the tournament.

All five of OC's starters finished in the top 15. Brictson's 71 caused him to zoom 13 spots up the leaderboard into a tie for 13th at 224 (+8). Freshman Santiago Villareal of Cordoba, Argentina, tied for seventh at 221 (+5) after a final-round 75.

Another freshman, Exequiel Rodriguez of Buenos Aires, Argentina, shot a 77, while junior Alejandro Armijo posted a 75 that included three birdies, one on a nifty chip-in from in front of the green on the par-3 No. 13. Both finished tied for 10th at 222 (+6).

Two OC players competed as individuals in The Hrnciar. Freshman Oskari Nikku of Tuusula, Finland – playing in his first collegiate event – tied for 50th at 237 after a final-round 83, while sophomore Chase Gardner of Snohomish, Wash., posted a 78 and placed 57th at 244.

OC will announce its schedule for the spring semester during the coming weeks.

FINAL RESULTS