Creamean is leading the way for Penn State with back-to-back top-five finishes

 

   Penn State’s Alex Creamean, a senior from Winnetka, Ill., has been on a nice little roll as the fall portion of the wraparound 2026-2027 season has been playing out for the Nittany Lions.

   Creamean finished in third place in the Moraine Intercollegiate, hosted by Miami of Ohio, which wrapped up Tuesday at Moraine Country Club in Kettering, Ohio with a 3-under-par 210 total that helped the Nittany Lions finish in seventh place in the 16-team field with a 17-over 869 total.

   I want to focus a little more closely on the showing by Creamean and the Nittany Lions in last week’s Cullan Brown Intercollegiate, hosted by Kentucky at Lexington Country Club in Lexington, Ky., where Creamean finished in a tie for fifth place and led Penn State to a fifth-place finish in the team standings in a tough field that featured some Southeastern Conference entries.

   I will try to touch on all of Penn State’s outings up to this point as head coach Mark Leon tries to build a foundation that might be capable of giving the Nittany Lions, playing out of the Big Ten, a chance to earn its first NCAA regional appearance since 2018.

   Tennessee was the runaway winner of the Cullan Brown, which wrapped up Oct. 6^th, with a 22-under 830 total over the 7,255-yard, par-71 Lexington Country Club layout.

   The Volunteers have been a middle-of-the-pack team in the powerful SEC, but that might be changing with the arrival in Knoxville of Tyler Watts, a freshman from Huntsville, Ala. who is the No. 2 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR).

   The Cullan Brown was particularly intriguing as it marked the college debut of Watts, who had spent the early part of the season representing the United States in a riveting edition of the Walker Cup Match, the Red, White & Blue ultimately surrendering the Cup with a 13.5-12.5 loss to Great Britain & Ireland at Lahinch Golf Club in County Clare, Ireland.

   The kid was the youngest winner of the Sunnehanna Amateur, an Elite Amateur Series event held at Sunnehanna Country Club, an A.W. Tillinghast gem in Johnstown, in the summer of 2025 when he was going into his senior year in high school.

   He became the youngest winner of the Northeast Amateur, another Elite Amateur Series staple held at Wannamoisett Country Club, the Donald Ross gem in Providence, R.I., in the summer of 2026.

   Got a chance to watch Watts do this thing in a big spot in August in the U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club’s historic East Course. He fell to eventual runnerup Jay Leng Jr., 1-up, in the round of 16, but Watts’ poise under pressure was really impressive for anybody, let alone a teen-ager.

   It seems unlikely that Watts will stay at Tennessee for four years, but for this season, he makes the Volunteers a force to be reckoned with.

   Watts is joining a pretty talented bunch, too.

   One of the co-medalists in the Cullan Brown was Tennessee’s Christian Pardue, a junior from Arlington, Tenn. who shared the top spot on the leaderboard with Vanderbilt’s Carlos Astiazaran, a senior from Tucson, Ariz. who was competing as an individual as they each landed on 9-under 204 at Lexington.

   Pardue had three rounds in the 60s, opening with a 3-under 68 and adding a 2-under 69 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a sparkling 4-under 67 to earn his first collegiate victory.

   Tennessee just kept getting better as the tournament wore on. The Volunteers opened with a 2-under 282 and added a 6-under 278 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a sizzling 14-under 270. Their 22-under total gave them a 22-shot victory over SEC rival Mississippi State.

   It was in that final round when Watts flashed his considerable talent, firing a 6-under 65 that enabled him to climb into a tie for third place in the individual standings with Xavier’s Kellen Dean, a junior from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., each recording a 6-under 207 total that left them three shots behind Pardue and Astiazaran.

   Watts stood at even-par entering the final round as he opened with a 1-over 72 and added a 1-under 70 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round.

   Tennessee had a third top-10 finisher as Jackson Herrington, a junior from Dickson, Tenn. and No. 73 in the WAGR, ended up in a group of four players tied for eighth place at 2-under 211.

   Herrington sandwiched a 2-under 69 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round with a pair of even-par 71s.

   Tennessee earned a trip to the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. by finishing in fifth place as the three seed in the Bryan Regional last spring.

   The Volunteers came up just short of a spot in the match-play bracket at La Costa as they finished in a four-way tie for seventh place and failed to survive a playoff among those four teams for the final two quarterfinal berths.

   Mississippi State only trailed Tennessee by three shots going into the final round of the Cullan Brown as the Bulldogs opened with a 6-under 278 and added a 1-over 285 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round.

   A final round of 5-over 290 left Mississippi State alone in second place at even-par 852, 22 shots behind the Volunteers.

   Mississippi State was led by Yago Horno Mateo, a freshman from Spain who landed in the group tied for eighth place at 2-under. Horno Mateo sandwiched an even-par 71 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round with a pair of 1-under 70s.

   Mississippi State punched its ticket to the NCAA Championship at La Costa last spring by finishing in fifth place as a seven seed in the Bermuda Run Regional. The Bulldogs never got it going at La Costa and failed to earn a spot in the match-play bracket.

   North Carolina State, an Atlantic Coast Conference representative, finished two shots behind Mississippi State in third place with a 2-over 854 total.

   The Wolfpack added a 2-over 286 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to their opening-round 287 before closing with a solid 2-under 281.

   N.C. State failed to advance to the NCAA Championship as a nine seed in the Bermuda Run Regional last spring.

   Host Kentucky, another SEC representative, was another shot behind N.C. State in fourth place with a 3-over 855 total.

   The Wildcats were solid in the opening-day double round, adding a 2-under 282 in the afternoon to their opening-round 281. Kentucky closed with an 8-over 292.

   Kentucky also teed it up in the Bermuda Run Regional last spring and failed to advance to the NCAA Championship as a 10 seed.

   Really nice showing by Penn State as the Nittany Lions struggled in the opening-day double round, adding an 8-over 292 in the afternoon to their opening-round 293. But with Creamean leading the way with a 4-under 68, Penn State closed with a sparkling 12-under 272 to finish in fifth place in the 15-team field with a 5-over 857 total.

   Creamean matched par in the opening round with a 71 and added a 2-under 69 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with that 68 that left him in a tie for fifth place with Western Kentucky’s Will Easterlin, a sophomore from Americus, Ga. with a 5-under 208 total.

   Backing up Pardue, Watts and Herrington for Tennessee was Rudy Sautron, a senior from France who finished among the group tied for 12^th place with a 1-under 212 total. Sautron contributed a sparkling 4-under 67 to the Volunteers’ strong finish after opening with a 1-over 72 and adding a 73 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round.

   Rounding out the Tennessee lineup was Pennson Badgett, a freshman from Pilot Mountain, N.C. who finished in the group tied for 25^th place at 2-over 215. Badgett matched par in the opening round with a 71 and added a 1-under 70 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a 2-over 74.

   Tennessee’s depth was on display as Bruce Murphy, a graduate student from Atlanta, Ga. competing as an individual, joined his teammate Herrington in the foursome tied for eighth place at 2-under.

   After opening with a 2-over 73, Murphy put together a sparkling 4-under 67 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before matching par in the final round with a 71.

   Two other Volunteers competing as individuals, Chase Kyes, a sophomore from Birmingham, Ala., and Luke Smith, a sophomore from Canada, finished in the group tied for 21^st place at 1-over 214.

   Kyes opened with a solid 2-under 68 and added a 3-over 74 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a 72. Smith was really solid, opening with a 1-under 70 before adding a pair of 1-over 72s in the final two rounds.

   SEC power Vanderbilt didn’t send a full team to the Cullan Brown, but Astiazaran, one of the four Commodores competing as individuals, got a share of the individual medalist honors with Tennessee’s Pardue with a 9-under total.

   Astiazaran, a transfer from Pacific, trailed Western Kentucky’s Easterlin by a shot going into the final round after Astizaran added a sparkling 5-under 66 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to his opening-round 69. He closed with another 2-under 69 to get a share of first place.

   Really nice showing by Xavier’s Dean as he added a 1-under 70 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to his opening-round 68 before closing with a 69 to share third place with Tennessee’s Watts at 6-under, three shots behind the co-medalists.

   Dean helped the Musketeers capture the Big East crown last spring.

   After opening with a 1-under 70, Western Kentucky’s Easterlin ripped off a sizzling 7-under 64 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to take a one-shot lead into the final round.

   Easterlin closed with a 3-over 74 to fall back into a tie for fifth place with Penn State’s Creamean at 5-under.

   A couple players from Big 12 representative Cincinnati earned top-10 finishes in the Cullan Brown as Timmy Hollenbeck, a senior from Mason, Ohio, finished alone in seventh place with a 4-under 204 total and Brayden Miller, a sophomore from Goshen, Ind., rounded out the quartet tied for eighth at 2-under.

   Hollenbeck added a sparkling 4-under 67 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to his opening-round 70 before closing with a 1-over 72. Miller posted back-to-back 1-under 70 in both ends of the opening-day double round before matching par in the final round with a 71.

   Backing up Cremean at the Cullan Brown was senior Tim Peters, a State College homeboy who was a two-time PIAA Class AA qualifier at St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy and began his college career at Millersville. Peters closed with a 2-under 69 to finish in the group tied for 25^th place at 2-over 215. He had opened with a pair of 2-over 73s in the opening-day double round.

   It’s been a solid fall for freshman John Curran, a member of Devon Prep’s PIAA Class AA championship team as a junior in 2023. Pretty sure Curran took a gap year before ending up at Penn State.

   Curran and fellow Nittany Lion Jackson Saroney, a sophomore from Syracuse, N.Y., finished among the group tied for 36^th place, each ending up with a 4-over 217 total.

   Curran struggled a little in the opening-day double round, opening with a 5-over 76 and adding a 74 in the afternoon. But he closed with the best round of his fledgling college career, a sparkling 5-under 67.

   Saroney contributed a 4-under 68 to Penn State’s final-round surge. Saroney had opened with a 2-over 73 before adding a 76 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round.

   Will Preston, a junior from Grand Rapids, Mich., rounded out the Penn State lineup as he finished in the trio tied for 76^th place with a 229 total. Preston struggled in the opening-day double round, adding a 7-over 78 in the afternoon to his opening-round 79, but finished up with a solid 1-over 72.

   Junior Hunter Stetson, winner of the Bert Linton Invitational for the Inter-Ac League’s individual championship as a sophomore at Episcopal Academy in 2021, was in the lineup for N.C. State and finished in a tie for 68^th place with a 225 total.

   Stetson, a Golf Association of Philadelphia major champion after capturing the title in the Patterson Cup in 2025 at Waynesborough Country Club, added a 5-over 76 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to his opening-round 77 before closing with a solid 1-over 72.

   Stetson got to play a home game in the U.S. Amateur when he earned a spot in the field at Merion’s East Course in August. Stetson failed to earn a spot in the match-play bracket as he opened with a 7-over 77 at Philadelphia Country Club and added a 6-over 76 in the second round at Merion.

   Creamean was right back at it for Penn State in this week’s Moraine Intercollegiate in Ohio.

   He opened with a 3-under 68 and added a 1-under 70 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round before closing with a 1-over 72 to finish in third place with a 3-under 210 total, one of just six players in the field to finish under par for the tournament.

   It was Creamean’s second straight top-five finish.

   After opening with a 5-over 289, Penn State matched par with a 284 in a solid team effort in the afternoon of Monday’s double round. The Nittany Lions closed with a 296 to finish with a 17-over 869 total.

   Penn State had opened its season by again co-hosting the Canadian Collegiate Invitational, which wrapped up Sept. 14^th at the Oviinbyrd Golf Club in MacTier, Ontario.

   The Nittany Lions finished in eighth place in the 13-team field with a 41-over 893 total.

   Peters led the way for Penn State north of the border as he finished in the group tied for 15^th place with a 5-over 218 total.

   Creamean got his senior season off to a solid start at Oviinbyrd as he finished in a tie for 18^th place with a 7-over 220 total.

   In its second start of the fall campaign, Penn State finished last of 16 teams against a tough field in the Windon Memorial, hosted by Big Ten power Northwestern, which wrapped up Sept. 29^th at the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Ill.

   The Nittany Lions opened with a 5-over 285 and added a 293 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a 292 to finish with a 30-over 870 total.

   Curran made his college debut in the Windon Memorial and was the leading Lion, ending up in the group tied for 55^th place with an 8-over 218 total. Curran opened with a 1-over 71 and added a 72 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a 75.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoffman, DeVos share top spot in Philly Junior Tour stop at Tanglewood Manor

 

   John Hoffman of Marlton, N.J. and Zac DeVos, who wrapped up his scholastic career at Bensalem by earning a trip to the PIAA Class AAA Championship a year ago, each carded a 7-over-par 79 at Tanglewood Manor Golf Club to share the top spot in the 16-to-18 division in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop Sept. 26^th.

   Tanglewood Manor’s location in Quarryville, Lancaster County made it the only Philly Junior Tour stop scheduled that weekend to be played as the nor’easter that took up residence in the region kept junior players off the golf course elsewhere.

   A Philly Junior Tour stop scheduled Sept. 26^th at the John F. Byrne Golf Course in Philadelphia was canceled as was another stop in Philadelphia at Bala Golf Club, scheduled for Sept. 27^th. Hey, at least the weather has held up for the league championship and District One tournaments being played during the week as the high school season plays out.

   Hoffman got off to a fast start with birdies at the first and fourth holes and had nine pars on his scorecard, including a stretch of seven consecutive pars from eight through 14.

   DeVos made a birdie at the fifth hole and had 12 pars on his card, matching Hoffman’s run of seven straight pars from eight through 14.

   Felix Chen, a junior on the Lancaster Country Day School golf team, made birdies at the second, fourth and ninth holes and had seven pars on his card as he finished a shot behind the co-medalists in third place with an 80.

   Torrin Denton of Mullica Hill, N.J. took fourth place with an 82, Trey Barkman, a District One Class AAA qualifier as a senior at West Chester Rustin this fall, was fifth with an 83 and Joel Vogt of Rising Sun, Md. and Lucas Keysock, a District One Class AAA qualifier as a junior at Perkiomen Valley this fall, shared sixth, each tallying an 84.

   Pierce Drake, a senior on the Downingtown East golf team, took eighth place with an 86, Garrett Keninitz of Ringtown was ninth with an 87 and Nicholas Fargnoli of Mickleton, N.J. rounded out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division as he finished 10^th with an 88.

   Tucker Friedman, a sophomore on the Central Dauphin golf team, made a birdie at the 10^th hole and had 10 pars on his scorecard as he claimed a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 13-to-15 division with an 8-over 80.

   Connor Bates, a sophomore on the Perkiomen Valley golf team, made a birdie at the 12^th hole and had nine pars on his card as he finished a shot behind Friedman in second place with an 81.

   Steven Musacchio of Glenmoore had 11 pars on his card, including a string of four straight pars from the fifth through the eighth holes, as he finished in third place with an 84.

   Thayer Boyd of Kennett Square took fourth place with an 88, Caeden Ruohonan of Avondale was fifth with a 91, Charlie Wei of Cochranville was sixth with a 93 and Jackson Dingleman of Manheim and Mason Hall of White Hall, Md. shared seventh, each signing for a 94.

   Patrick Scally of Garnet Valley took ninth place with a 97 and Harrison Miller of Palmyra rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as he finished 10^th with a 111.

   Kash Gray of Eagleville and Connor Michaels of Lancaster finished in a tie atop the leaderboard among the boys 12-and-under nine-holers, each recording a 5-over 41.

   Gray had six pars on his scorecard, rattling off three straight pars at the second, third and fourth holes. Michaels had five pars on his card, opening his round with three straight pars.

   Matthew Meiswich of West Chester made a birdie at the seventh hole and had four pars on his card, including three consecutive pars at three, four and five, as he finished a shot behind Gray and Michaels in third place with a 42.

   Bennett Cho of Chesterbrook, Easton Brenner of Lititz and Ryan Kaye of Lansdale finished in a tie for fourth place, each registering a 46.

   Rounding out the boys 12-and-under division were two members of Team Swanson of Lititz as Mills Swanson took seventh place with a 49 and Dawes Swanson was eighth with a 53.

   Juniper Ha of Royersford was the lone entry in the girls 12-and-under division and she made pars at the third and ninth holes on her way to a 49.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bucknell getting a big boost from fabulous freshmen Barrickman, McDermott

 

   Anybody who follows high school golf in the Philadelphia area was well aware that the Bucknell men’s golf team was getting a major infusion of talent when Unionville’s Charlie Barrickman and Radnor’s Brad McDermott decided to take their talents to Lewisburg.

   With Barrickman finishing in third place and McDermott ending up fifth, those additions to the Bison’s roster produced Bucknell’s first team title since 2021 in the Matthew’s Auto Collegiate Golf Championship, which wrapped up Oct. 5^th at The Links at Hiawatha Landing in Apalachin, N.Y.

   Barrickman was the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Junior Player of the Year in 2025, largely on the strength of a tie for third place in the Philadelphia Open, the annual gathering of the most talented players in the region, pros and amateurs alike, at Bidermann Golf Club.

   Barrickman capped a brilliant scholastic career a year ago by finishing in third place in the PIAA Class AAA Championship at Penn State and then leading the Longhorns to the Class AAA state team crown.

   Barrickman, who plays out of Kennett Square Golf & Country Club, earned a spot in the field for the U.S. Amateur in August and opened his bid for a spot in the match-play bracket with a sparkling 1-over-par 71 at Merion Golf Club’s historic East Course.

   He struggled a little at Philadelphia Country Club in the second round with a 79 as he failed to earn a spot in the match-play bracket. But teeing it up in U.S. Amateur in your hometown a couple of months after graduating from high school had to be quite an experience.

   McDermott, who plays out of Merion Golf Club, earned his second trip to the PIAA Class AAA Championship as a senior at Radnor a year ago and helped the Raptors finish a shot behind Barrickman and Unionville in a tie for second place in the state Class AAA team chase.

   As college debuts go, Barrickman’s was fairly spectacular as he captured the individual title in the Alex Lagowitz Memorial with a sparkling 7-under 209 total at Seven Oaks Golf Club in Hamilton, N.Y. over the Labor Day weekend, becoming Bucknell’s first individual champion since 2023.

   Barrickman’s victory helped the Bison finish in fifth place in the Alex Lagowitz Memorial.

   Barrickman opened with a 4-under 68 over the 7,104-yard, par-72 Hiawatha Landing layout, and McDermott added a 2-under 70 to help Bucknell, which plays out of the Patriot League, match par in the opening round of the Matthew’s Auto Collegiate with a 288.

   That left the Bison seven shots behind La Salle, an Atlantic 10 Conference representative that opened with a sparkling 7-under 281.

   Sounds like the wind kicked up at Hiawatha Landing for the second round and Bucknell’s 10-over 298 was good enough for the Bison to overcome La Salle and capture the team crown with a 10-over 586 total.

   Barrickman added a 2-over 74 in the second round to his opening-round 68 as he finished in third place in the individual standings with a 2-under 142 total.

   McDermott added a 3-over 75 in the second round to his opening-round 70 as he finished in fifth place with a 1-over 145 total.

   Bucknell had a third top-10 finisher in the individual standings as Taylor Kuehn, a senior from the golfing Kuehn family out of Asheville, N.C., finished among the foursome tied for ninth place at 3-over 147.

   Kuehn, whose mother Brenda and sister Rachel starred collegiately at Wake Forest and have both secured clinching points in Curtis Cup victories for the United States, added a 2-over 74 in the second round to his opening-round 73.

   La Salle, behind individual champion Gavin Dosch, a senior from Draper, Utah, finished four shots behind Bucknell in second place in the team standings with a 14-over 590 total. After their hot start, the Explorers struggled in the second round with a 21-over 309.

   Dosch grabbed the individual lead with a sparkling 5-under 67 in the opening round. He matched par in the second round with a 72 and held on for a two-shot victory, becoming La Salle’s first individual tournament winner since 2024.

   La Salle also got a strong showing from graduate student Logan Paczewski, a four-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier during an outstanding scholastic career at Dallas, as he finished alone in fourth place, two shots behind Barrickman at even-par 144.

   Failed to mention this in my post on the John MacDonald Temple Invitational, but Paczewski, like Barrickman, earned a spot in the field for the U.S. Amateur in August. Paczewski was solid in qualifying for match play, carding a 3-over 73 in the opening round at Philadelphia Country Club and adding a 3-over 73 at Merion’s East Course in the second round.

   Paczewski, whose college journey has included stops at George Mason and Rutgers, contributed a 4-under 68 to La Salle’s fast start in the Matthew’s Auto Collegiate before adding a 4-over 76 in the second round.

   St. Bonaventure, another Atlantic 10 representative, finished two shots behind La Salle in third place with a 16-over 592 total, the Bonnies adding a 9-over 297 in the second round to their opening-round 298.

   St. Bonaventure was led by Colin Barber, a sophomore from Victor, N.Y. who finished among a trio tied for sixth place with Laval freshman Rafael Mouty and Trinity’s Charlie Mullin, a junior from Cincinnati, Oho, each landing on 2-over 146.

   Barber matched par in the opening round with a 72 before adding a 2-over 74 in the second round.

   Barrickman’s teammate on Unionville’s Class AAA state championship team a year ago, Nicolas Gaughan, gave St. Bonaventure a second top-10 finisher as he ended up in the quartet tied for ninth place at 3-over.

   Gaughan opened with a solid 2-under 70 before struggling a little in the second round with a 5-over 77.

   Iona, the reigning Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion, finished three shots behind St. Bonaventure in fourth place with a 19-over 595 total. The Gaels, whose MAAC victory earned them a spot in the NCAA Marana Regional last spring, bounced back from an opening-round 302 with a 5-over 293 in the second round.

   Iona was led by Jennings Oelke, a sophomore from Tigard, Ore. who earned runnerup honors in the individual standings with a 3-under 141 total that left him two shots behind Dosch, the individual champion.

   Oelke matched par in his opening round at Hiawatha Landing with a 72 before adding a solid 3-under 69 in the second round.

   Le Moyne College, a Northeast Conference representative, was another six shots behind Iona in fifth place in the 13-team field with a 601 total, the Dolphins opening with a solid 6-over 294 before struggling to a 307 in the second round.

   Backing up Barrickman, McDermott and Kuehn for Bucknell was Jaxon Brown, a sophomore from Lakewood Ranch, Fla. who finished among the group tied for 25^th place with an 8-over 152 total. After opening with a 5-over 77, Brown added a 75 in the second round.

   Rounding out the Bucknell lineup was Jack Hartman, a junior from Bethesda, Md. who finished in the group tied for 76^th place with a 164 total as he added an 83 in the second round to his opening-round 81.

   Henry Bolster, a sophomore from Summit, N.J., competed as an individual for the Bison and finished in the group tied for 64^th place with a 161 total as he opened with a solid 1-over 73, but struggled to an 88 in the second round.

   Rounding out the Bucknell contingent was Conner Freedman, a freshman from Chapel Hill, N.C. who was also competing as an individual. Freedman added an 82 in the second round to his opening-round 84 as he finished in 83^rd place with a 166 total.

   Bucknell finished last of 15 teams in The Goat, which wrapped up Sept. 20^th at the Naval Academy Golf Club in Annapolis, Md., with a 69-over 921 total. Barrickman finished in a tie for 37^th place in the individual standings with 10-over 223 total.

   Laval’s Mouty opened with a 3-under 69 at Hiawatha Landing and added a 5-over 77 in the second round to join St. Bonaventure’s Barber and Trinity’s Mullin in the trio tied for sixth place at 2-over.

   Mullin matched par in the second round with a 72 after opening with a 2-over 74 to also land in the tie for sixth place at 2-over.

   Joining Bucknell’s Kuehn and St. Bonaventure’s Gaughan in the foursome tied for ninth place at 3-over were Wagner’s Anthony Rzeszutko, a freshman from Staten Island, N.Y., and Mercyhurst’s Ryan Wolk, a freshman from Los Angeles, Calif.

   Rzeszutko opened with a solid 1-under 71 before adding a 4-over 76 in the second round. Wolk opened with a 1-over 73 before finishing up with a 74.

   Backing up Dosch and Paczewski for La Salle were graduate student Billy Pabst, the PIAA Class AAA runnerup as a senior at North Pocono in 2021, and Payton Hawke, a senior from Canada, both of whom landed in the group tied for 45^th place at 11-over 155.

   Pabst, who began his college career at Penn State, opened with a 4-over 76 before adding a 79 in the second round. Hawke contributed a solid 1-under 71 to La Salle’s fast start, but struggled to an 84 in the second round.

   Rounding out the La Salle lineup was Kyle Virsik, a sophomore from Melbourne, Fla. who finished among the group tied for 54^th place with a 157 total. Virsik opened with a 3-over 75, but struggled in the second round with an 82.

   Another graduate student at La Salle, Jack Ross, a product of Shawnee High, competed as an individual in the Matthew’s Auto Collegiate and had a nice showing, finishing in the trio tied for 13^th place with a 4-over 148 total.

   Ross matched par with a 72 in the second round after opening with a 4-over 76.

   Rounding out the La Salle contingent was Sam Parker, a freshman from Hickory, N.C. who also competed as an individual and finished among the trio tied for 31^st place with a 9-over 153 total. After opening with a 4-over 76, Parker added a 77 in the second round.

   Lafayette senior Winston Kelenc-Blank, a Rumson, N.J. native who used to show up on the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour leaderboards as a junior player, finished in the group tied for 25^th place with an 8-over 152 total.

   Kelenc-Blank, who played scholastically at The Peddie School and Choate Rosemary Hall, opened with a 3-over 75 before adding a 77 in the second round.

   Kelenc-Blank helped Lafayette, another Patriot League entry, finish in seventh place in the team standings with a 34-over 610 total.

   Bucknell and La Salle were scheduled to meet again as the Bison were hosting the Bucknell Invitational at the Bucknell Golf Club.

   The remnants of Hurricane Isaias forced tournament officials to cancel Sunday’s opening round and the tournament was shortened to 36 holes to be played Monday and Tuesday.