South Atlantic Conference Men’s Golfers Improve on Day Two of NCAA Super Regional

Tusculum Shows Improvement in Second Round of NCAA Super Regional

DADE CITY, Fla. --- The Tusculum College men's golf team shaved a dozen shots off its opening day score as the Pioneers posted 302 in the second round of the 2015 NCAA Division II South/Southeast Super Regional.  The 20-team, 54-hole tournament is being held at the 7,098-yard, par-72 Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club.

Tusculum's two-day total of 614 has the Pioneers in 17th place overall and eighth in the Southeast Region, up one spot from Monday's first round.

The final 18 holes will be played on Wednesday with the top three teams from each region advancing to the NCAA Division II National Championship in Conover, North Carolina later this month.

Senior Warren Cheney carded the best round of the day for the Black & Orange with a one-over par 73.  The Nashville, Tennessee native shot 38 on his opening nine holes, but accounted for three birdies on his inward nine, including a pair in two of his last four holes to shoot 35.  His two-day score of 77-73=150 has him tied for 44th place.

Junior Nick Forsberg made a five-shot improvement from Monday's round with a second-day score of 74 (+2).  The Staples, Minnesota product finished with three birdies and five bogeys on his scorecard as he sits in 64th place at 79-74=153.

Knoxville, Tennessee junior Brad Hawkins is currently in 75th place with 75-80=155, including Tuesday's 80.

Sophomore Taylor Smith accounted for five birdies, including three on his outward nine to shoot a two-under par 34. The Gray, Tennessee native ran into some problems on his second nine holes as he recorded a double bogey on two of his first three holes on the inward.  Smith rallied with a pair of birdies down the stretch to finish with 75, eight strokes better than Monday's 83.  His two-round tally of 83-75=158 has him tied for 88th place.

Sophomore Chris Hutson trimmed five shots off of his first day score with three birdies as he posted an 80.  The Knoxville, Tennessee product is 103rd with 85-80=165.

Lynn University extended its lead in the team competition following up Monday's 276 with 286 for 562 (-14).  Nova Southeastern University is second with 570 (-6) while Barry University is third with 582.  USC Aiken is fourth in the overall competition, but is the top-ranked team in the Southeast Region with 583. 

Host Saint Leo University is fifth with 584, while Florida Tech and Florida Southern College are tied for sixth at 592.  Limestone College is eighth overall (2nd in the SE Region) with 593, while Georgia Southwestern University is ninth overall (3rd in the SE Region) at 594.  The University of West Florida rounds out the top-10 with 596.

The University of North Alabaman is 11th with 598, while Erskine College and University of West Georgia are tied for 12th with 600.  Columbus State University and Wingate University each have 601 and are tied for 14th place.  Flager College (602) is 16th, followed by Tusculum, North Greenville University (620), Georgia College (629) and Benedict College (725) to round out the field.

DADE CITY, Fla.----The Wingate University men's golf team posted a 299 in the second round of the NCAA Division II South/Southeast Super Regional at the Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club Tuesday. The Bulldogs are tied for 14th place at 601 after 36 holes of the 54-hole event. Saint Leo University is hosting the 20-team event on the par 72, 7098 yard lay-out. Lynn (Fla.) University holds the top spot on the team leader board with a 14-under-par score of 562.

"Our score was better today in tougher conditions," Wingate head men's golf coach Corey Iacofano says. "As it happens, everyone else played well, too. We are only nine shots out of the sixth (and final) qualifying spot. We have got a lot of work to catch up, but we go off early and we will try to post a low number and see what happens."

Wingate freshman Jarett Stowe (Matthews, N.C.) had the Bulldogs' best Tuesday score with a two-under-par 70. Stowe shaved 12 strokes from his Monday score. He finds himself tied for 55th place with graduate student Benedict Gebhardt (Wiesbaden, Germany) at 152, one stroke behind graduate student Lukas Richter (Frankfurt, Germany) at 151. Richter is tied for 48th place.

Richter posted a 75 Tuesday, while Gebhardt had a 78. Wingate junior Tyler Stone (Peterborough, Ontario) recorded a 76 Tuesday for a two-day total of 154. Bulldog sophomore Phillip Konnikov (Berlin, Germany) is one shot behind Stone with a 155. Konnikov shot an 81 Tuesday.

Statistically, Stowe had four birdies and two bogeys Tuesday. Both Konnikov and Gebhardt had three birdies each in the second round. Richter has 25 pars through two rounds. Only three student-athletes in the 108-player field have more pars than Richter. The third and final round takes place Wednesday. Wingate's first tee time is 8:20 a.m.

Galyon Shaves Off Three Shots in Second Round of NCAA Division II South/Southeast Super Regional

DADE CITY, Fla. – Lincoln Memorial University senior Braden Galyon (Powell, Tenn.) shaved three strokes off of his opening-round total but made relatively little vertical movement up the leaderboard in the second round of the NCAA Division II South/Southeast Super Regional on Tuesday at Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club in Dade City, Fla.

Galyon fired a nine-over par 81 in Monday's opening round, falling into a three-way tie for 91st place. Despite triple bogeying his first hole on Tuesday, Galyon trimmed three strokes off of his first-round total with a six-over par 78. The Powell, Tenn. native made a minute movement up the leaderboard, though, sliding into a six-way logjam in 90th place.

After that ugly triple bogey on No. 1, Galyon played the next 12 holes at two-under par, mixing in four birdies and two bogeys with six pars. Galyon was unable to pull it back even down the stretch, stumbling with three bogeys and a double bogey on the way in.

Galyon's 15-over par, 36-hole total of 159 has him 18 strokes back of Lynn's Mateo Gomez and Nova Southeastern's Santiago Gomez, who are tied atop the individual leaderboard with three-under par totals of 141. Seven other players are tied in third place at two-under par. The round of the day belonged to Barry's Berry Jole, who is amongst that ground of seven after moving 35 spots up the ladder with a five-under par 67.

No. 3 nationally-ranked Lynn leads the event by a significant sum with 18 holes left to play, currently boasting a 14-under par cumulative total of 562, eight shots in front of top-billed Nova Southeastern. No. 4 Barry is in third place with a 582 (+6).

The third and final round of the NCAA Division II South/Southeast Super Regional concludes on Wednesday at Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club.