MARVIN, N.C. -- The Railsplitters were unable to make a vertical leap in the final round of the 2015 South Atlantic Conference Men's Golf Championship, carding a 20-over par 308 on Tuesday at Firethorne Country Club to finish in a two-way tie for fourth place. Lincoln Memorial entered the final round trailing Tusculum by 10 strokes, but fell 16 shots back of the Pioneers in the final standings.
 
Tusculum captured the SAC Championship crown with rounds of 295 and 302 for a 36-hole total of 597 (+21), edging Wingate by a mere two strokes. It was a two-horse race between the Pioneers and Bulldogs by the end of the round, as Queens finished in third with 302+308=610 (+34). The Railsplitters tied with Newberry with rounds of 305 and 308 for a two-day total of 613 (+37).
 
It was unquestionably the worst 36-hole stretch of the 2014-15 season for the Railsplitters, far outnumbering the team's 606 cumulative total through the first two rounds of the Spring Kickoff Intercollegiate. Lincoln Memorial entered the event slotted at No. 27 in the most recent Golfstat head-to-head national rankings, with. No. 19 Wingate standing as the only SAC team ranked higher in the field.
 
Junior Connor Froning (Knoxville, Tenn.), sophomore Kurtis Campbell (Saint Lazare, Quebec, Canada) and senior Rand Wasson (Norris, Tenn.) led the Railsplitters by finishing in a tie for 14th place with nine-over par totals of 153. Froning posted the low round of LMU's afternoon, following up an eight-over par 80 with a one-over par 73. Froning's round was the cleanest among his teammates, as he tallied three birdies and 12 pars. Campbell and Wasson, meanwhile, posted identical numbers with a 76 in round one and a 77 in round two.
 
Sophomore George Duncan (Dumbartonshire, Scotland) was unable to build on a solid two-over par 74 in Monday's opening round, plummeting from sixth to 31st place with a 10-over par 82 in the closing round. Duncan birdied his first hole of the day, but a pair of double bogeys and a triple bogey on the par-5 13th derailed his round.
 
South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year and senior Braden Galyon (Powell, Tenn.) persevered through his worst 36-hole stretch since carding a two-round total of 163 on the last two days of the 2012 SAC Championship. Galyon finished in a tie for 41st place with rounds of 79 and 81, good for a two-day total of 160 (+16). Galyon led the Railsplitters with four birdies on Tuesday, but his scorecard also showed four double bogeys.
 
Tusculum's Nick Forsberg captured individual medalist laurels with a one-under par total of 143, beating out Wingate's Benedict Gebhardt - the 2014 SAC Championship medalist - by three strokes and Wingate's Phillip Konnikov by four strokes.