Round One Results

Senior Sylvain Debiais (St. Jean de Monts, France) shot a five-over 76 to lead UMass Lowell to a share of seventh place after the first round of the NCAA Tournament East-Atlantic Super Regional at the Oglebay Resort Speidel Jones Course.

UMass Lowell carded a 311 for the round as only two strokes separated places second through seventh. Wilmington currently sits in the lead with a 298 and built a 10-stroke lead on Indiana (Pa.) and Charleston, which share second place with a 308.

Millersville (Pa.) is currently alone in fourth with a 309 while California (Pa.) and St. Thomas Aquinas share fifth place with a 310. UMass Lowell shares seventh place with Davis and Elkins (N.C.) College while West Chester (Pa.) is ninth (312) and American International College 10^th (316).

The top three teams along with the top two individuals (unaffiliated with the top three teams) advance to the NCAA Championship May 20-24 in Hershey, Pa.

“We're a couple shots out of second place,” said head coach Jim Mahoney. “The golf course here is very difficult, just over 7,000 yards, and has very dramatic changes in elevation as you might expect here in West Virginia. And the scores today reflected that.”

Debiais, who sits in a tie for 13^th place, highlighted his round with a birdie on the par-four 12^th hole (478 yards). He shot for par on 11 holes and bogeyed six holes.

Senior Andrew Fecteau (Newbury, Mass.) and sophomore Harry Hulme (Manchester, England) each shot a seven-over 78 and are currently in a tie for 26^th place. Fecteau shot par on 12 holes and bogeyed six.

Hulme highlighted with a birdie on the par-five hole 14 (522 yards) and shot for par on 10 holes.

Sophomore Kevin Fay (Lawrence, Mass.) was right behind in a tie for 38^th place with an eight-over 79. Fay birdied the par-four ninth hole (170 yards) and the par-four 17^th (184 yards).

Senior Jordan Traa (Calgary, Alta.) struggled to a 91, which currently sits 106^th.

“We didn't think we played particularly well based on what we can do, but on the other hand, neither did anyone else,” Mahoney said. “But we're right in the hunt and the kids are very optimistic. They came off the course thinking they had not played very well because the scores were fairly high, but when they saw the other scores, they started to feel a lot better.”

Andrew Baldo of Wilmington and Jamin Smith of Charleston currently share the individual lead with a one-over 72.

UMass Lowell is among the late teams to tee off tomorrow, beginning with Fay at 12:50 p.m., Traa at 1:00, Fecteau at 1:10, Hulme at 1:20 and Debiais at 1:30.