Greyhounds Take Home NE10 Men's Golf Title.
ENDICOTT, N.Y. – The Assumption men's golf team was crowned Northeast-10 Conference Champions on Monday morning at the En-Joie Golf Club – as the second round of action was cancelled due to persistent rain and poor course conditions.
By league rule, the tournament was shortened due to the inclement weather and the Greyhounds – after leading by one stroke following Sunday's first round – took home the program's first-ever NE10 Men's Golf title.
Prior to this weekend, Assumption's best all-time finishes at the NE10 Men's Golf Championship were runners-up in both 1986 and 2007.
Assumption shot +4 (292) as a team on Sunday, besting runner-up Southern New Hampshire (+5) and third-place finisher Le Moyne (+6) by the narrowest of margins. Junior Andrew Sanzaro led the Greyhounds with a one-under 71 on Sunday, while teammate Mark Bryant was close behind with an even-par 72.
There was another first at the NE10 Men's Golf Championship, as Matt Johnson became the first-ever golfer from Saint Michael's to win the Gordon McCullough Memorial Award – which honors the individual medalist from the championship. Johnson shot a remarkable four-under 68 on Sunday, just two strokes back of the NE10 record for an individual round.
Johnson's teammate, Brendan Locke, finished with a two-under 70 – runner-up on the individual leaderboard. Sanzaro was tied for third with Le Moyne's Nicholas Bove and Southern New Hampshire's Garrett Olivar – rounding-out the All-Championship Team.
Additionally, Le Moyne's Nicholas Barney won the first Elite 24 Award of the 2019-20 athletic season, after posting an incredible 3.99 GPA as a physics major. The Elite 24 honors the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA at the finals site of each NE10 Championship.
GORDON MCCULLOUGH MEMORIAL AWARD
Matt Johnson, Saint Michael's
ALL-CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM
Matt Johnson, Saint Michael's
Brendan Locke, Saint Michael's
Andrew Sanzaro, Assumption
Nicholas Bove, Le Moyne
Garrett Olivar, Southern New Hampshire
Congratulations to the members of our All-Championship Team! ⛳️
— The NE10 (@TheNortheast10) October 7, 2019
Matt Johnson, @smcathletics
Brendan Locke, @smcathletics
Garrett Olivar, @snhupenmen
Zak Sanzaro, @acgreyhounds
Missing: Nicholas Bove, @LeMoyneDolphins #NE10EMBRACE pic.twitter.com/5hjFJ3KEva
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