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Wagner Claims First Ever Men's Golf Championship

5/1/2016


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Daytona Beach, FL -- Wagner needed to work a little extra for its first-ever Northeast Conference men’s golf team title.

The Seahawks held a 9-stroke lead heading into Sunday’s third, and final, championship round at LPGA International, but Bryant (869) stormed back and sat even with Wagner at five over (869) after 54 holes of play of the Jones Course.

The first-ever team playoff in the event’s history ensued and the Seahawks prevailed in the second playoff hole.

Wagner is the sixth different program to win the NEC men’s golf team title in the last six years.

In just the fourth individual playoff in NEC Championship history, Fairleigh Dickinson’s U Minn Woon (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/Bolles School) needed three playoff holes to defeat Bryant’s Ryan Tombs (Bedford, NH/Bedford) for the top prize after the two finished tied at three-under 213 after 54 holes. Woon’s birdie on Hole 10, the third playoff hole, proved to be the difference. The three other playoffs came in 1991, 2002 and 2014.

Sacred Heart’s Hector Gutierrez (Boca del Rio, Mexico/Greg Norman Champions Golf Academy) and Wagner’s Lucas Moreno (Bogota, Colombia/Gimnasio Campestre) finished in a tie for third place on the individual leader board (214), one stroke off the pace set by Woon and Tombs.

Robert Morris’s Daniel Franco Saad (Bogotoa, Colombia), SFU’s Brandon Mihalo (Windsor, Ontario, Canada/Holy Names Catholic) and Bryant’s McKinley Slade (Saunderstown, RI/South Kingstown) produced identical three-round totals to tie for fifth place at even par (216).