Men's Golf

Three Golfers Garner All-Conference Honors

Posted: Nov 30, 2021

STANDISH, Maine – Saint Joseph's College golfers Drew Mathieu (Windham, Maine), Sean McDonough (Concord, N.H.), and senior Jake Laplume (Old Orchard Beach, Maine) garnered All-Conference honors by virtue of their top-five finishes in the 2021-22 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Golf Championship at the New Haven Country Club on October 12th.

Mathieu paced the Monks and the entire field with a 159 (81-78) card and earned GNAC Player and Rookie of the Year honors with the Medalist finish while McDonough placed third with a 162 (84-78) and Laplume was fifth with a 163 (82-81) score.

Mathieu is the first SJC golfer to sweep the GNAC Golf major awards and second Monk to earn GNAC Rookie of the Year. Kevin Richardson '14, the 2010 GNAC Rookie of the Year, was the last St. Joe's golfer to claim top first-year player honors.

Thanks to the trio's efforts in the 36-hole event, Saint Joseph's eclipsed the five-team field with a 646 (330-316) team card to claim the GNAC crown for the second time in team history and first since 2016.

With the victory, Saint Joseph's earns the GNAC's automatic qualifier into the 2022 NCAA DIII Tournament, which will be played at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida May 10th through the 13th, 2022.

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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.