Photo: Jayson Ortiz/CSUP athletics

Leaderboard

PUEBLO, Colo. - Owen Cornmesser and Ethan Adam are in the top 20 to push Colorado School of Mines to a tie for sixth after 36 holes at the Southern Colorado Masters at Walking Stick Golf Course. 

Mines surged back from a morning 302 to shoot the second-lowest team score of the afternoon at 291, overcoming windy conditions to jump up the leaderboard in Pueblo. The team 291 marks their best round of the spring and second-best of 2021-22.

Cornmesser led the way for the Orediggers, sitting T9 overnight on rounds of 74 and 70 to be even par, and Adam is +3 on cards of 74 and 73 to be T18. Theodore Reitter bounced back from a morning 78 to shoot an even-par 72 in the afternoon and is now T32 at +6, and Lucas Schulte also went lower in the second round with a 76 following an 81 to be T54 at +13. Jake Welch shot 76-82 to be +14 and 62nd, while Max Engel, playing as an individual, is T64 after two rounds of 80. 

The Orediggers spread three eagles around their second round as Welch, Adam, and Engel all marked threes on par-5 opportunities. 

The host CSU Pueblo leads by a large margin at -20, with Colorado Mesa in second at +6. The first three individuals on the leaderboard are Thunderwolves with Andrew Ni leading at -7. 

The third and final round tees off Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.