Bentley Set for Northeast-10 Championships Monday & Tuesday
WALTHAM, Mass. – The Bentley University golf team will wrap up the fall portion of the schedule Monday and Tuesday when the Northeast-10 Conference Championships are contested at the Twin Hills Country Club in Longmeadow.
Golfers will play 36 holes on Monday, with action getting underway at 8 am. Tuesday's final round will start at 9 am. Live scoring will be available on GolfStat.
Coach Brian Bain's Falcons are forecast to finish fifth in the ten-team field, according to a pre-championship poll of conference coaches. With 55 total points, Bentley trailed two-time defending champion Assumption (73), Southern New Hampshire (64), Adelphi (61) and Franklin Pierce (60).
The lineup for Bentley will consist of seniors Timothy Picard (Dracut/Lowell Catholic HS) and Jake Napoli (Plantsville, Conn./Southington HS), junior Nelson Eaton (Groton, Vt./St. Johnsbury Acad.), sophomore Zach Stewart (Pembroke/ Duxbury HS) and freshman Andrew teDuits (Charlestown/Boston College HS).
Stewart has been Bentley's top golfer this season with a 73.0 stroke average and a +1.9 average to par. Picard follows with a 74.0 norm.
Eaton, in ten rounds, and teDuits, the latest NE10 Rookie of the Week, have averages of 75.4 and 75.6, respectively. Napoli, in two tournaments, has registered a 76.4.
Last year, Bentley finished sixth of 11 with Eaton (t-10th, 224) and Picard (t-14th, 227) the top golfers for the Falcons.
NORTHEAST-10 PRE-CHAMPIONSHIP POLL
1. Assumption - 73 (6)
2. Southern New Hampshire - 64 (2)
3. Adelphi - 61 (2)
4. Franklin Pierce – 60
5. Bentley – 55
6. Saint Anselm – 44
7. New Haven – 39
8. Saint Rose – 26
9. Saint Michael's – 15
10. American International - 13