DADE CITY, FLA.- The Lee University men's golf team used a strong second round of 280 to help them earn a second-place finish at the Saint Leo University Invitational to open the spring semester. Lee shot an 857 over the three rounds (288-280-289) to finish just two back of the host school and winner Saint Leo University. The invitational featured four teams in the top 25.
Saint Leo shot an 855 to win. Florida Southern College was in third with an 859. Rollins College and Barry University rounded out the top five with each team scoring 860.
Colton Swartz of Florida Southern won the individual title with a 206 (69-65-72). He won by two stroke over Elliot MacGregor who shot a 208.
Drew Zielinski was the top finisher for the Flames with a top five finish. He was tied for fifth with a 212. He saved his best from the final round shooting a 68. He had a 73 in round one and 71 in round two.
George Cordall shot a 216 (74-70-72) to come in tied for 22
nd. Luke Stock as tied fir 31
st wit h a 218 (76-69-73). Bennett McNabb was tied for 40
th with a 220 (70-74-76) while Mitchell Strickland rounded out the scoring with a 222. He was 46
th as he had a 71-70-81.
The next tournament for the Flames will be March 3-4 in Boulder City, Nev. The University of Missouri-Saint Louis will be hosting the Las Vegas Desert Classic to start the month of March.
Coach Evan Spence's Thoughts:
"Glad to be able to get on the road and knock some competitive rust off this week after the offseason but coming up a couple of shots short of a team victory always stings. Thought Drew (Zielinski) gave us a lot of really good stuff this week but there were definitely still plenty of shots left out there throughout the week across the whole lineup. Nice to know that this group can still compete for tournament titles with that kind of a performance, but we know we'll need to sharpen up quite a bit before we head out to Vegas in a couple of weeks for the next one."
