After playing in a combined 10 tournaments, the Eastern fall golf season has come to an end for the men’s and women’s team.

The men competed in five tournaments this fall season, dating all the way back to the tournament at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. The team finished 10th at Edwardsville.

After Edwardsville, the Panthers traveled up to Chicago for the Chicago State Fall Invitational where the team placed fourth out of five teams.

With only a few days of preparation, the team headed back up to the Chicagoland area for the DePaul Fall Invitational. The men took 10th place out of 11 teams at this event.

In early October, Eastern traveled to Indianapolis for a five-team tournament at Butler. The men came home from the invitational with fourth place.

Finally, the men wrapped up their season at the Austin Peay Fall Invitational. With 14 teams competing in the tournament, Eastern took 12th place.

The most consistent player for the men during the fall was sophomore Austin Sproles. Sproles had the best score on the team three out of the five tournaments. However, he was disappointed with the season for the Panthers as a team. He knows the team must work hard in the offseason.

“I wasn’t pleased with our performance,” Sproles said. “We never had a tournament where the team was all playing well. We definitely need to work on our short game.”

The women also competed in five tournaments during the fall season with the first being the Chicago State Fall Invitational in September. Eastern took 12th place at the 13-team tournament.

The Panthers then traveled down to Edwardsville for the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Invitational where the team placed eighth out of 10 teams.

For the third invitational of the season, Eastern traveled to Indianapolis for the Butler Fall Invitational. The women came home with a sixth place finish out of 10 teams.

After Butler, came the Austin Peay Fall Invitational. Out of 14 teams, the women took 13th.

Finally to bring the fall season to a close, the women traveled to Dayton, Ohio for the Dayton Fall Invitational. The Panthers placed 17th out of 18 teams.

The teams will get some time off the course over the winter until the springtime when the season picks up again.

Dan Hildebrandt can be reached at 581-2812 or djhildebrandt@eiu.edu.