BREWSTER, MA – Saint Joseph's College placed 33rd with a 691 team card in the 76th Annual New England Intercollegiate Golf Association Championship at The Captains Golf Course on Monday and Tuesday.

NCAA DI participant University of Rhode Island won the tournament for the 11th time in the last 13 years with a two-day score of 585 to edge University of Connecticut by one stroke. St. Anselm captured DII team honors with a 617 card and Husson University posted the top DIII score with a 613 and placed sixth overall.

Adam Vaccari of the University of Connecticut defeated Kevin Josephson of Central Connecticut State University on the second playoff hole to finish as the individual medalist with a score of 143 over the 36-hole tournament.

Kevin Richardson '14 (Coventry, CT) led the Monks for the second straight day and carded a 78 on the closing day, his fourth sub-80 score of the season. Four of five SJC linkers posted a lower score on day two, as the Royal Blue managed to cut 15 strokes off their day-one team score (353-338).

For St. Joe's, the team score is the lowest at the New England event since the Monks carded a 663 in 2007.  

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The New England Intercollegiate Golf Association (NEIGA) has been in existence since 1934 and includes 44 member colleges and universities in New England and is considered to be the oldest and largest college golf tournament. It is unique in that Divisions I, II and III compete together. Teams from 37 colleges and universities across New England gathered Sunday through Tuesday; the event attracted 182 golfers to The Captains Golf Course and its 36-hole layout on Cape Cod.

St. Joe's will close out the 2010 season with the GNAC Championship Tournament, hosted by Rhode Island College at Triggs Memorial Golf Course in Providence. The two-day tourney will begin on Saturday, October 30th with a 10:00 AM tee-time.