Men's Golf

Monks Finish Fifth at Blazer Invitational

Posted: Oct 10, 2021

BELCHERTOWN, Mass. – Saint Joseph's College placed fifth with a 654 (325-329) team card in the Elms College Blazer Invitational on Saturday and Sunday.

Tufts University cruised to the team win with a 593 (291-302) composite score, well ahead of runner-up Amherst College, which posted a 620 (305-315) card. Westfield State (621, 316-305), Springfield College (649, 327-322) and Saint Joseph's rounded out the top five teams.

Roger Williams (668), Suffolk University (671), Gordon College (679), SUNY Old Westbury (714), Elms College (722), Worcester State (731), Dean College (743), Emmanuel College (744), and MCLA (789) also competed in the event.

Tufts placed the top three individuals in the 36-hole tournament, as Jack Meehan and Travis Clauson tied atop the field with 146 (+4) cards and Mac Bredahl finished third with a 148 score. Westfield State's J.J. Newcombe was fourth (152) and Amherst's Steven Chen and Gordon's Karsten Lusk tied for fifth with 153 cards.

FOR THE MONKS:

Freshman Cade Buckley (Peabody, Mass.) tied for 18th with a 158 (73-85) card
Junior Trevor Flanagan (Monmouth, Maine) was 22nd with a 162 (81-81) score
Senior Jacob Laplume (Old Orchard Beach, Maine) shot a 163 (86-77) and tied for 23rd
Freshman Drew Mathieu (Windham, Maine) finished tied for 35th (171, 85-86)
Junior Sean McDonough (Concord, N.H.) was 42nd (177, 89-88)

NEXT!

Saint Joseph's kicks off the 2021-22 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championship tomorrow at the New Haven Country Club.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.