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Nick Hardy, Edoardo Lipparelli and Bryan Baumgarten all picked wins in the championship match for Illinois
"The match was a bit back and forth early and to (hole out) on the 8th just fired me up," Baumgarten told Golf Channel. "And then my assistant coach and I joked around that I could do it again on No. 9 and I did." Spurred on by the hole outs Baumgarten won the 10th, 12th and 14th hole to close things out. "I struggled during stroke play and yesterday and today I knew I just needed to go out and play golf and win or lose go and see what would happen," continued Baumgarten. Illinois, playing as the two-seed, also got victories from junior Nick Hardy who defeated Oregon sophomore Edwin Yi 5&4 and sophomore Edoardo Lipparelli who was able to best Duck redshirt sophomore Nigel Lett 2&1. The win for Illinois concluded what was a dominant fall season as they won four of the five events they played in. As a result the stage is set once again for a deep run in the NCAA's. "That is our goal again, to make match play (at the NCAA's) and once you do that anything can happen," Illinois head coach Mike Small said. "But we have to get better and each one of these guys knows that they have to get better if we have a mission that we are going to get to staring next to spring and maybe later this fall but we have to earn it, it certainly isn't going to be given to us."He made that look way too easy. @IlliniAthletics ' Bryan Baumgarten bunker game on point earlier. #EastLakeCup pic.twitter.com/ArHy8 xTmo1
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) November 2, 2016

Started in 2015 and hosted by the historic East Lake Golf Club Atlanta, this collegiate, three-day match play competition features the top-performing teams from the previous year's NCAA Men’s Golf Championships. There is an individual award for the l...
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