Buena Vista men’s golf takes 13th at Iowa Central Invite, shows improvement
Matthew Turpen led Buena Vista with a 76 as the Beavers shaved their team total to 306 in round two and finished 13th at Iowa Central.
Buena Vista left the Iowa Central Invite with more than a 13th-place finish to show for it. The Beavers improved as the tournament went on, posting a second-round 306 to close at 618 over 36 holes in a strong 15-team field.
Matthew Turpen set the pace for Buena Vista with a final-round 76 and finished as the team’s top placer in a tie for 41st. He was still only nine shots behind seventh place, a sign that the middle of the leaderboard was tightly packed and that a few swings could have moved BVU much higher.
The scoring behind Turpen was close enough to keep the Beavers in the mix internally, too. Gabe Kramer finished one shot back after opening with a 73, a round that started with back-to-back birdies and included four birdies overall. Kaleb Sander followed three shots behind Turpen with a 77 in the final round and had a team-high two birdies. Mason Laven closed with a 79, six shots behind Turpen.
That spread matters for a Buena Vista group that has shown it can score when the lineup clicks. The Beavers were one shot short of North Iowa Area Community College at their own invite in the fall after shooting a final-round 306, and they went on to post a school-record final round of 285 at the Wartburg Invite, where Turpen carded a 5-under 67, the lowest individual 18-hole score the program had turned in in at least 32 years.
Kramer has also been part of that momentum this spring. He helped lead Buena Vista to a seventh-place finish at the Graceland University Invite in a 54-hole event, giving the Beavers another benchmark for how competitive they can be when multiple players are under control at the same time.
The Iowa Central Invite, held Friday and Saturday in Fort Dodge, showed Buena Vista is not far from that level again. The second-round 306 was the better of the two team scores, and the tighter scoring among Turpen, Kramer, Sander and Laven suggests the Beavers are trending in the right direction as they head to the Gustavus Adolphus Invitational.
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