WALLA WALLA, Wash. – The Whitworth University men closed out their fall golf schedule with a sixth-place finish at the Confluence Classic, hosted by Whitman College on Sunday and Monday at Veterans Memorial Golf Course and at Wine Valley Golf Course.

The Pirates' B team finished in eighth place.  Host Whitman won the tournament by 18 strokes.

The final team scores were Whitman 569 (-7), Puget Sound 587, George Fox 589, Pacific Lutheran 590, Pacific (Ore.) 596, Whitworth 604, Whitman (B) 616, Whitworth (B) 631, PLU (B) 640, George Fox (B) 641.

Whitman's Grady Brown was the individual champion with a score of 67-73 – 140 (-4). 

Peyton Simonds led Whitworth by tying for 15^th place.  He shot 77-72 – 149 to improve by six places from Sunday to Monday.  Andy Hobson posted a 76-74 – 150 to tie for 19^th place.

Matthew Durkin (76-75 – 151) finished 24^th and Kallen Maioho (79-75 – 154) tied for 29^th.  Cooper Smith (79-79 – 158) tied for 34^th.

Elijah Clendening led the Pirate B team in a tie for 31^st place after shooting 80-75 – 155.