Men's Golf

Monks Place Second at Southern Maine Tri-Match

Posted: Sep 01, 2022

PORTLAND, Maine – Saint Joseph's College opened the 2022 season with an appearance in the Southern Maine Tri-Match at Riverside Golf Course on Thursday afternoon. Sophomore Drew Mathieu (Windham, Maine) earned Medalist honors after shooting a one-under par 71 and the Monks placed second overall with a 314 team card.

University of Southern Maine claimed the team title with a 313 cumulative score while UMaine-Farmington placed third with a 342 score.

Mathieu finished atop the field and was two strokes ahead of the runner-up finisher, senior teammate Trevor Flanagan (Monmouth, Maine), who kicked off his final collegiate campaign with a 73 card. Senior Sean McDonough (Concord, N.H.) was ninth (82), sophomore Alex Beecher (South Portland, Maine) finished 14th (88), and first-year Dante Ceppetelli (Dover, N.H.) placed 17th (92).

Saint Joseph's will host the 19th Annual John Queenan Memorial Tournament at the Point Sebago Golf Resort on Thursday, September 8th. The yearly tournament is named in memory of John Queenan, a 2003 graduate of Bow High School who died tragically in an automobile accident just prior to the beginning of his freshman year as a student-athlete at Saint Joseph's.

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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.