UMD men's hockey coach Scott Sandelin records hole-in-one

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UMD hockey coach records ace

With a pitching wedge in hand, Scott Sandelin lofted a shot to the par 3 No. 17 hole at Northland Country Club on Thursday afternoon. The ball bounced on the green and spun toward the hole, and in for an ace, traveling 129 yards.

The third career hole-in-one for the Minnesota Duluth men’s hockey coach was a thrill, he said, but it had additional meaning.

“We’re in the men’s league playoffs and that hole helped us win the match. Winning is always fun,” said Sandelin, 47, a 10 handicap player as a Northland Country Club member.

His lowest score of the year, a 5-over-par 76, came on a summer-like, sunny, 80-degree afternoon. It was the final men’s league event of the season for Sandelin, who hits the recruiting trail the next three weeks before the official start of practice Oct. 1. The defending NCAA champion Bulldogs open their schedule with a home exhibition against Lakehead University of Thunder Bay, Ontario, on Oct. 2.

Sandelin’s previous hole-in-one efforts came at the Municipal Golf Course in Hibbing, his hometown, and at a par-3 course in Bloomington, Minn.

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