22 0 0 0 0 9-10 9-10 MEN’SMEN’SMEN’S &&& WOMEN’SWOMEN’SWOMEN’S GOLFGOLFGOLF NN EWSEWS && NN OTESOTES 399 Camus Drive, 1st Floor, Somerset, NJ 08873 Golf Contact: Lindsey Williams, Media Relations Intern Phone: 732-469-0440 / Fax: 732-469-0744 E-Mail: [email protected] Bryant (2012-13) • Central Connecticut State • Fairleigh Dickinson • Long Island • Monmouth • Mount St. Mary’s Quinnipiac • Robert Morris • Sacred Heart • St. Francis (NY) • St. Francis (PA) • Wagner NEC Men’s Golf NEC Women’s Golf (Week 4 • October 7, 2009) (Week 4 • October 7, 2009) NEC Golfer of the Week NEC Co-Golfers of the Week Dan Fanion, Central Connecticut State Gabriella Riber, Sacred Heart Fr., Westfield MA/Westfield Fr., Stockholm, Sweden/Danderyds Gymnasium Fanion earns NEC Men’s Golfer of the Week for leading CCSU with a one over par, 211 (68-72-71), to Riber earns NEC Co-Golfer of the Week for finishing fifth at the ECAC Division I Championships at place in a tie for sixth in the 75-player Macdonald Cup at The Course at Yale this weekend. He led the Kiskiack Golf Course in Williamsburg, VA last weekend. The freshman fired rounds of 78 and 75, Blue Devils, who shot five over par 285 in the final round of play, to a fifth place finish out of 15 teams finishing just two strokes out of the top spot in the medalist race out of 55 golfers. Riber's performance in the competition. This is the rookie’s first honor of his career and the first for any CCSU men’s golfer helped the Pioneers finish in fifth place in the 10-team field, besting four other Northeast Conference for the fall 2009 season. schools that participated. This is the rookie's first selection as well as SHU's first weekly honoree.

Skylar Hay, Saint Francis (PA) League Notes So., Easton, PA/Freedom Led by a third-place individual finish from senior Jason Thresher (West Suffield, CT/West Suffield), Hay is the co-selection for this week’s NEC Women's Golfer of the Week, the first for her and SFPA. The Bryant came in tied for sixth overall in last weekend's MacDonald Cup hosted by Oct. 3-4. The sophomore continued her strong start to the 2009-10 season by finishing 13th at the ECAC Division Bulldogs finished tied for sixth with in the 14-team field. Thresher started off the two-day I Championships, which was hosted by William & Mary at the Kiskiack Golf Club. Hay carded a two- tournament with his best round of the 2009-10 season shooting a 68 in the Cup's first round. He followed it up with round 79-82-161, with her first-round 79 and two-day total of 161 representing season lows. Hay's one under par and par performances, shooting a 69 for round two and a par-70 for round three, to finish the strong performance paced the Red Flash to a sixth-place showing in the 10-team event. weekend at three under (207) and in third overall. Classmate Scott Congdon (Foxboro, MA/Foxboro) wrapped up his weekend tied for 17th overall shooting the Bulldogs' best round with a 67 on the first 18 holes to enter the second round in second place. However, less-strong rounds to close the tournament, a round-two 75 and round-three 73, pushed the senior to a 215 (+5) on the weekend. A trio of juniors rounded out the Bulldog squad League Notes as Eric Tankanow (Worcester, MA/Bancroft) finished tied for 24th with a three-round score of 216 (+6 - Central Connecticut State will be off for its second week in a row before they compete in the Sacred Heart 72, 67, 77), while Kyle Hoffman (Pawtucket, RI/Bishop Feehan(MA)) came in tied at 63rd and Matt Fall Classic at the Milford, CT Great River Golf Club Oct. 18-19. Bernstein (Cape Elizabeth, ME/Cape Elizabeth) finished the weekend 75th. Yale took the top team and individual spot, winning their own tournament with a two-over 842. The Bulldogs return to the course Oct. 11-13 Fairleigh Dickinson will travel to the RU Golf Course in Piscataway, NJ to compete in the Rutgers Invitational when they travel to Storrs, CT to take part in the UConn Invitational. Oct. 8-10.

Central Connecticut State shot five over par, 285, in the final round of play to place fifth out of 15 teams in Long Island next plays Oct. 9-10 in the Rutgers Invitational in Piscataway, NJ at the RU Golf Course after not competition at the Macdonald Cup at the Course at Yale this weekend. The Blue Devils finished with a score of 860 competing last week. in the three-round tournament, just 18 strokes back of the host Bulldogs who won the event. Freshman Dan Fanion led CCSU with a one over par, 211 (68-72-71), to place in a tie for sixth in the 75-player tournament. Monmouth finished 16th at the Nittany Lion Women's Invitational this past weekend at University Park, PA. A trio Sophomores Kevin Josephson (Berlin, CT/Berlin) and Greg Beloin (Farmington, CT/Farmington) of freshman led the Hawks squad on the chilly, windy weekend as the team improved its card each round of play tied for 17th in the tournament, each carding a five over par 215 in the three rounds. Josephson shot 70, 73 and 72 (371-360-356=1087). On the par 72, 6,300 yard course, freshman Autumn Yun (Dayton, NJ/South while Beloin played rounds of 74 and 72 before finishing the best round by a Blue Devil on the weekend with a one Brunswick) led the Blue and White with a team-low third round card of 83 (95-85-83=263) to finish in an 84th under par 69 in round three. Junior Eric Hawerchuk (Orangeville, Ontario/Robert F. Hall Catholic) place tie overall. Finishing behind Yun was classmate Kelsi Kavanagh (Point Pleasant, NJ/Point Pleasant finished the three rounds in 219 to place in a tie for 34th. CCSU will next compete at UConn on Oct. 12 and 13. Boro) who fired rounds of 86, 91 and 89 (266) to finish in an 86th place tie while newcomer Rachel Werner (Smithtown, NY/Smithtown West) ended her weekend three strokes after Kavanagh (94087-88=269) to Fairleigh Dickinson plays next at the ECAC Championships in Atlantic City, NJ on Oct. 8-10. end in 87th place. The Blue and White return to the links next weekend when they travel to New Brunswick, NJ for the Rutgers Invitational with tee time slated for 8:00 a.m. Long Island was off for the second week in a row and will return to the course in Ellington, CT for the UConn Connecticut Cup Oct. 12-13. Mount St. Mary’s senior Christina Koerper (Huntingdon Valley, PA/Mount St. Joseph Academy) finished 23rd to lead the Mount St. Mary's women's golf team to an eighth-place standing at the ECAC Champion- Monmouth penciled a team card of 642 (326-316) en route to an eighth place finish on Sunday and Monday ships on Sunday. Koerper posted an 83 in the first round, and then registered an 81 on Sunday in the final round to at the Scotty Duncan Memorial Golf Tournament in Stanton, Del. Led by senior Michael McComb (Egg Harbor post a two-round score of 164, 13 strokes behind the medalist. Freshman Sarah Roe (Floral Park, NY/Floral

NEC Golfer of the Week NEC Golfer of the Week FALL FALL Sept. 16 Kyle Hoffman, BU Sept. 16 Lisa Warrilow, FDU Sept. 23 Max Cahn, RMU Sept. 23 Michele Holzwarth, FDU Sept. 30 Ian Thimble, MU Sept. 30 Michele Holzwarth, FDU Oct. 7 Dan Fanion, CCSU Oct. 7 Gabriella Riber, SHU; Skylar Hay, SFPA NEC Men’s Golf Championship NEC Women’s Golf Championship April 30-May 2 April 23-25 Course: ChampionsGate Golf Club in ChampionsGate, FL Course: ChampionsGate Golf Club, ChampionsGate, FL 2009 Team Champions: Sacred Heart 2009 Team Champions: Fairleigh Dickinson 2009 Individual Champion: Eric Hawerchuk (CCSU) 2009 Individual Champion: Michele Holzwarth (FDU) www.northeastconference.org NEC Men’s Golf Notes NEC Women’s Golf Notes (cont.) (cont.)

Township, NJ/Egg Harbor Township) with his 10th place tie finish, the Hawks improved their team card by Park Memorial) (29th place, 170), senior Autumn Serruta (Avon, Conn./Avon) (31st place, 171), 10 strokes on day two to finish in the middle of the pack at the 15-team tournament. On the par 72, 6,861 yard tough sophomore Christina Hall (Wall, NJ/Wall) (40th place, 181) and freshman Abbey Fry (Lebanon, PA/ golf course, team captain McComb (79-76=155) fired the second best round of any Hawk (76) to earn his first Cedar Crest) (48th place, 196) also competed in the event for the Mount. MSM posted a 352 in the first round top-ten finish of the fall season. Finishing just four strokes behind was junior Greg Etimos (East Islip, NY/East and a 334 in the final round for a score of 686. Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Friday at the Rutgers Invitational. Islip) whose rounds of 86 and 73 (159) put him into a 21st place tie overall. Reigning NEC Player of the Week, Ian Thimble (Hyde Park, MA/), finished third on the squad with a final card of 166 (77-89) Robert Morris finished 13th at the Second Annual Zippy Invitational hosted by the University of Akron at Rosemont for a 53rd place tie. The Hawks will return to the greens this weekend, Oct. 9-10, when they travel to nearby Egg Country Club. The Colonials shot a three-round team total of 1,046. Grand Valley State won the event with a score Harbor, NJ for the competitive ECAC Golf Championships. Tee time is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. each day. of 932, besting Toledo by three strokes. Bowling Green's Susannah Grunden took medalist honors shooting a 226 total (77-73-76). Senior Ashleigh Frieday (Grand Island, NY/Grand Island) paced the Robert Morris Mount St. Mary's senior Jeff Kingsbury (North Beach, MD/Northern) finished 36th to lead the Mount effort by finishing 58th with a 256 total. The senior carded rounds of 86-81-89 on the course in Fairlawn, OH. The St. Mary's men's golf team to an 11th-place standing at the Scotty Duncan Memorial on Monday. Kingsbury posted course played to 6,060 yards and a par of 72 in the first two rounds. The final round laid out at 5,860 yards and a par an 81 in the first and second round to card a 162 in the two days to place 36th, 17 strokes behind the medalist. of 71. Sophomore Elizabeth Wenger (Toledo, OH/Whitmer) tied for 64th with a 261, shooting 92-86-83. Graduate student Brad Gerick (Pylesville, MD/North Harford) (39th place, 163), junior Sage Smith Classmate Cassie Stein (Lewiston, NY/The Nichols School) was one stroke back and tied for 66th at 84- (Denver, CO/Brophy) (47th place, 165), sophomore Dan Michalek (Mount Airy, MD/Mount St. 86-92=262. The next competition for RMU is Oct. 12-13 where they will host the Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport Joseph) (53rd place, 166) and freshman Andrew Lawton (Severna Park, MD/Mount St. Joseph) (69th Colonial Golf Classic at the Montour Country Club. place, 174) also competed for the Mount. The Mountaineers finished in 11th place after posting a 323 in the first round and a 333 in the final round for a total of 656. MSM returns to action in the final round of the Holiday Inn Sacred Heart finished fifth out of ten teams at the Division I Championships at Kiskiack Golf Course in Williamsburg, Pittsburgh Airport Colonial Golf Classic on Oct. 12. VA last weekend. Freshman Gabriella Riber (Stockholm, Sweden/Danderyds Gymnasium) led the way finishing fifth with a 153 total. Sophomore Carly Bergin (Binghamton, NY/Chenango Valley) got off to a Robert Morris was inactive last week but play host on Oct. 12-13 for the Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport Colonial rough start in the tournament with an opening-round 86 but came back to fire a 75 in the second round and finish Golf Classic at the Montour Heights Country Club. in a 13th place tie in the 55-golfer field. Gabrielle's sister, Michelle Riber (Stockholm, Sweden/Danderyds Gymnasium ), continued her solid play this fall finishing 17th just one shot behind Bergin. The Pioneers finished Sacred Heart finished 10th in the 15-team field at the MacDonald Cup at Yale last weekend. Sophomore Jun ahead of four other NEC schools that participated in the Championship (Saint Francis (PA), Mount St. Mary's, Hardart (Warwick, Bermuda/Williston(MA)) had the best finish of his collegiate career coming in at 14th Wagner and St. Francis (NY). SHU will play in the Rutgers Invitational this coming weekend. in the 75-golfer field. He fired rounds of 71, 71 and 72 on the par-70 Yale Golf Course. Sophomore Joseph Serrentino (Cromwell, CT/Xavier) finished 29th with a 219 total. The Pioneers return to action next Monday, St. Francis (NY) kicked off the 2009-10 season with a 10th place finish at the ECAC Division Women's Cham- Oct. 12 at the First Connecticut Cup hosted by UConn at Ellington Country Club. pionships that was held at the Kiskiack Golf Course in Williamsburg, VA this past weekend. The University of Pennsylvania took the team title while Sarah Sideranko of Hartford took the individual title at the two-day event. As St. Francis (NY) was idle last week and don’t return to the links until Oct. 25 where they will compete in the a team, the Terriers shot 751 (+175), 370-381 combined, while junior Teresa Dillilo (Staten Island, NY/ Fairleigh Dickinson Invite in Bridgewater, NJ. Port Richmond High School) finished in 42nd place. Other notable scores from the two-day event included junior Emily Wisener (Peoria, AZ/Cactus High School) finishing in 44th place with a total score of 185 and Saint Francis (PA) recorded its fourth top-10 finish in as many tournaments this fall by taking seventh in a 15- senior Tonianne Campuzano (Richmond Hill, NY/Mary Louis Academy) finished in 46th place. SFNY team field at the Scotty Duncan Memorial, which was hosted by the University of Delaware at White Clay Creek Golf will head to Fairfield, CT to take part in the Sacred Heart Fall Invite, which is scheduled to begin on Oct. 17. Course. The Red Flash finished ahead of fellow Northeast Conference members Monmouth (8th) and Mount St. Mary's (11th). Sophomore Adam Simpson (London, Ontario/Oakridge Secondary) captured 17th with Saint Francis (PA) competed at the 2009 ECAC Division I Women's Golf Championships where they took sixth a 80-78-158. Junior Joey Amelia (Chatham, Ontario/Chatham Kent Secondary) finished 47th with a 76- out of 10 teams. SFPA was paced by sophomore Skylar Hay (Easton, PA/Freedom) who continued her strong 89-165. Senior Patrick Finlan (London, Ontario/London Central) captured 58th with an 87-82-169, start to the 2009-10 season by finishing 13th. Hay carded a two-round 79-82-161, with her first-round 79 and two- which was his lowest round of the season. Sophomore Vincent Adams (Broisbriand, QC/John Abbot Col- day total of 161 representing season lows. Hay's strong performance paced the Red Flash to a sixth-place showing lege) took 61st with an 85-85-170. SFPA will conclude its fall season when it plays at Robert Morris next Monday in the 10-team event. Junior Caryn Doege (Monroeville, PA/Gateway) finished tied for 19th with a 80-83- and Tuesday. 163, which was also a season-best for her. Classmate Laura Smith (State Line, PA/Greencastle Antrim) carded an 87-89-176 to take 35th while senior Lisa Kocin (Padua, OH/Padua Franciscan) took 36th with Wagner did not compete last week but return for the ECAC Championships in Egg Harbor, NJ this weekend, Oct. a 90-87-177 and junior Kaitlin Hensal (Seville, OH/Wadsworth) finished 45th with a 99-88-187. SFPA will 9-10. be idle until it concludes the fall season with the Regents Glen Classic, which will be hosted by Bucknell University on Oct. 18 and 19 at the Regents Glen Country Club in York, PA.

Wagner finished 9th in a field of 11 teams last weekend at the 2009 ECAC Championships. Junior captain Dena Smith (Highland Heights, OH/Beaumont) paced the field for the Green and White finishing tied for 33rd with a two-round total of 175 (92-83). Finishing in 38th was freshman Miko Page (Brooklyn, NY/Edward R Murrow) with rounds of 84-86 (180), followed by sophomore Kaitlin Osmundsen (Staten Island, NY/ Tottenville) in 47th (97-97-194). Rounding out the pack for Wagner was freshmen Keri Muse (Sterling, VA/ Dominion) in 50th and Alyssa Kuhn (Staten Island, NY/Tottenville) in 52nd. The Seahawks return to action Friday, Oct. 9 when they travel to New Brunswick, NJ to compete in the Rutgers Invitational.