PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – The 2024-25 season for Cal State East Bay men's golf wrapped up Wednesday in the final round of stroke play at the NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championships. At PGA National Golf Club, the Pioneers finished in a 14^th place tie on the team leaderboard, falling short of the cut to advance to match medal play.

• Easton Hether was tied for 11^th on the leaderboard at an overall score of 2-under-par 214. He carded a 71 in the final round of his junior season highlighted by three birdies on the front-9. Hether finished the 54 holes with a team-high nine birdies.
• Climbing 21 spots up the leaderboard in the final round with a -1 (71) on Wednesday was Adam Brangefalt with a final score of 8-over-par.
• Brangefalt and Cooper Groshart also had three birdies each in the final round of stroke play.

Cal State East Bay head golf coach Alan Sue reflected on the team's performance and outstanding season by the Pioneers. "Today, our historic season ended unfortunately," said Sue. "We fought hard but failed to score well on par-5s and took too many high scores throughout the week. This group accomplished things this year that either have never been done before or haven't been done in nearly a decade. Even though I'm saddened, I have so many happy memories from this season. I am so excited for this team next year as none of our starters are graduating. We'll miss our seniors, Ananjan [Kaushik] who helped us win the CCAA and Aaron [Lee] who helped us start our season with three consecutive tournament wins. Our team will definitely have a chance to return to the national championship and make some noise next season."
 
Leading the top eight place teams advancing to match medal play was Colorado Christian. Finishing atop the leaderboard for stroke play was Hunter Smith from North Georgia with a final score of 6-under-par 210.