COLUMBUS — Wabash College junior Sean Bledsoe finished runner-up at the 2025 North Coast Athletic Conference Golf Championships in the men’s final standings. He earned the second-place finish and a spot on the 2025 All-Tournament Team after a loss on the first playoff off to Jaidan Koonar. Bledsoe and his Wabash teammates finished fifth out of eight teams in the final scoring with 891 total strokes.
Bledsoe and Koonar finished with scores of 210 for the 54-hole tournament, forcing a playoff. The golfers returned to the 10th tee at Otter Creek Golf Course, with Bledsoe teeing off first. His drive sailed just left of the fairway with any shot to the green blocked by a tree. He chipped out to the fairway, then hit up to the green on the par-four hole. Koonar put his drive just into the left rough but laced a second shot to the right side of the green. Bledsoe could not sink his par putt, leaving Koonar two shots to win medalist honors. The Kenyon player’s birdie just missed but left a tap-in for par to win the playoff.
Bledsoe carded a final round of 70 to finish six-under-par for the tournament. His finish is the best by a Wabash golfer at the NCAC Championship event in program history.
Senior Lewis Dellinger had a round to remember in the final 18 holes of his collegiate career. Dellinger scored a hole-in-one on the par-3 13th hole, hitting a shot within four feet of the pin before it rolled into the hole for the only hole-in-one of the tournament. He followed the hole-in-one with an eagle on the par-five 14th on the way to score of 30 over the final nine holes. He shot a 75 in his final round for a three-day score of 222 to tie for 12th place.
Fellow senior Matthew Lesniak finished in 22nd place out of 40 golfers competing in the tournament. Lesniak carded an 81 on Sunday to finish with a total score of 230.
Freshman Lane Notter finished 23rd overall. He shot a round of 80 on Sunday for a three-round total of 231. Sophomore Liam McAllister tied for 26th place with a total of 234 strokes for 54 holes. He turned in a round of 80 on Sunday.
Wabash finished with a three-day total of 891 strokes to finish in fifth place overall. The Little Giants turned in a score of 305 in the wet conditions Sunday afternoon to fall two spots back from their third-place position after the first two days of the tournament.
