PRESCOTT, Ariz. --- Biola men's golf continues to trend upward in its 2014 season, finishing sixth of seven teams at the Embry-Riddle Co-Ed Invite. The Eagles finished out of last place for the first time in three tournaments this season, with Warner Pacific taking that spot in this one.
 
The tournament was played over the last two days in windy conditions in the desert and on a lengthy course. The field included the host school Embry Riddle (AZ), Arizona Christian, CSU San Marcos, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Marymount College and the aforementioned Warner Pacific.
 
CSU San Marcos swept the tournament, claiming first place on the men and women's side. The Cougars posted an 876 (+12) to earn the crown in the men's tournament. They finished with the low score in two of the three rounds and placed six strokes ahead of second-place finisher CMS.
 
Biola's 954 (+90) put it 78 strokes out of contention, but kept it a solid 11 strokes in front of Warner Pacific.
 
Cameron Bauer was to thank for added boost in the scorebook, continuing his string of solid play with three more rounds in the 70s. He finished with a 230 (+14), tying his season-best score relative par and setting a new low for strokes in a three-round tournament. He finished as the 16^th-best individual in the tournament, and he shot the lowest round by any Biola individual, a first-round 75.
 
Lucas Kinan had a fantastic final two rounds of golf. He shot his two lowest rounds of the season (77 and 76) to finish out the tournament with the second-best score for Biola, a three-round total of 237 (+21), placing him in a tie for 22^nd overall.
 
Samuel Shih and William Langworthy shot all of the rest of Biola's carded scores, finishing with a 241 (+25) and 245 (+29), respectively. Both finishes put them finishing in the 30s on the individual leaderboard.
 
The 90-over total team score was 24 strokes higher than the Eagles' tally in their only other three-round tournament in 2014. This spike in scores can be attributed to the difficult playing conditions, as all scores, from first through seventh, were higher than average.
 
Biola's best round came in the afternoon on day one, where the team shot a 315 overall and got rounds in the 70s from Bauer, Kinan and Shih. It was the only round in the tournament that saw as many as three golfers get scores in the 70s. In its previous two tournaments, Biola had at least three golfers in the 70s in all five rounds.
 
The Eagles' busy fall continues, and concludes, with the CSUSM Fall Classic in the first week of November.