WALTHAM, Mass. – The field for the 2013 NCAA Division II Regional Golf Tournaments was announced Friday afternoon with Bentley University earning a third consecutive berth. The Falcons, who have won two tournaments this month, received the number eight seed in the East Regional as an at-large selection.

The East and Atlantic regional tournaments will be held jointly at the Oglebay Resort and Conference Center in Wheeling, W.V. May 6-8.  The top three teams and the top two student-athletes not with a team will advance to the finals, which will be held at the Hershey Country Club in Hershey, Pa. May 20-24.

The automatic qualifiers for the East Regional are top-seeded Wilmington College of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference and Adelphi University of the Northeast-10 Conference.  In addition to Bentley, at-large berths went to St. Thomas Aquinas College, Concordia College (N.Y.), Dowling College, Post University, Nyack College and two other teams from the NE-10, UMass-Lowell and American International.

The ten teams out of the Atlantic Region include automatic qualifiers Indiana University (Pennsylvania State), Concord College (West Virginia Intercollegiate) and Virginia State (Central Intercollegiate).

The Falcons, who will be competing in the NCAA tournament for the eighth time in the last 11 years, have six top-four finishes this season under third-year coach Mickey Herron. That includes victories this month in both the Peter King Memorial at Long Island National and the Mike Bello Invitational in Baldwinsville, N.Y. Over its last seven rounds, the Falcons' average team score has been 301.8.

The five golfers that Herron expects to take to the regional all have stroke averages below 80. Senior co-captain and Academic All-America Matt Michel (Danvers/Danvers HS), who missed last year's regional tournament due to sickness, leads the squad with an impressive 75.6.

Senior co-captain Dan McQueen (Topsfield/Masconomet Reg. HS), freshman Malcolm Oliver (Damariscotta, Maine/Lincoln Academy) and sophomore Jon Stoddard (Duxbury/Duxbury HS) are all just a shade over 77, and junior Harry Kirkpatrick (Lancaster/Nashoba Reg. HS) is at 79.2 after winning the Korzec Memorial on Tuesday with a season-best 74.

Last year, Bentley tied for 13th in the Regional, missing out on a top-ten finish by 11 strokes and a trip to the nationals by 15.

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