BLUE BELL, Pa. – Felician College came in ninth at the 2014 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Men's Golf Championship, hosted by Chestnut Hill College on Tuesday and Wednesday at Blue Bell Country Club. The Golden Falcons improved by one slot over the 10th-place result they posted in each of the last two years.
Felician sat in ninth place after Tuesday's opening round with a team score of 369. The Golden Falcons sliced 27 strokes off their score on Wednesday, but could not move up in the standings. Their 36-hole total of 711 was nine shots behind eighth-place Post University, and 30 ahead of the University of the Sciences in 10th.
Both Felician sophomore Andrew Geesey (Red Lion, Pa./Dallastown Area) and junior Jordan Tackett (Fredericksburg, Va./Stafford) finished among the top half of the field. Geesey played out of the No. 1 position in the Golden Falcon line-up and was the team's low man with 89-83-172. He tied for 20th place out of 50 entrants.
Tackett, playing his first tournament of the spring, was slotted in the No. 5 spot. He started the event with a round of 97 on Tuesday on the 6,850-yard, par-71 course. But he rebounded for a 77 on Wednesday, tying for the fifth-best score of the day. His total of 174 tied for 24th place.
Rounding out the Felician contingent were senior Chris Zito (South Hackensack, N.J./Hackensack) (T-34th, 89-93-182), freshman Justin Rasmus (Colonia, N.J./Colonia) (T-37th, 94-89-183) and sophomore Kevin Berdnik (Clifton, N.J./DePaul Catholic) (45th, 98-95-193).
Wilmington (Del.) University won its fourth consecutive CACC title with a +56 score of 301-323-624, finishing 23 strokes better than runner-up Nyack College. Keith Prokop of Dominican (N.Y.) College was the medalist with 76-74-150 (+8).
The 2014 CACC All-Tournament Team consisted of Prokop, Wilmington's Tomasz Pulsakowski, Andrew Baldo and Alexander Lautenschlaeger, Sam Deitte of Concordia (N.Y.) College, Blaise Straka of Chestnut Hill College and Matthew Yun of Nyack.
