LMU Men, Wingate Women atop Leaderboard after SAC Golf Championship First Round
Day one of the 2014 Food Lion SAC Golf Championship is in the books, with the Lincoln Memorial men and Wingate women leading the respective team standings.
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. – Day one of the 2014 Food Lion SAC Golf Championship is in the books, with the Lincoln Memorial men and Wingate women leading the respective team standings.
Second-round action will tee off Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. at the Sevierville Golf Club.
Lincoln Memorial's men's team – the defending SAC Tournament champions – finished with a score of 305 on Sunday, one stroke ahead second-place Tusculum. LMU was led by a round of 75 from Connor Froning, while Wingate's Tyler Stone carded the top individual round of the day at one-over 73.
Wingate is third in the men's team standings at 310, followed by Queens, Newberry and Carson-Newman in a tie for fourth at 313. Brevard, Catawba, Anderson and Coker all finished with team scores of 316 to finish in a tie for seventh, while Lenoir-Rhyne is 11th at 324 and Mars Hill is 12th at 325.
Tusculum's Nick Forsberg is second on the men's individual leaderboard after shooting a 74 on Sunday. He is followed by Froning, Brevard's Sami Vanni and Mars Hill's Adam Lumley, each of whom carded a 75. Froning is the event's defending individual medalist.
On the women's side, Wingate completed the first 18 holes with a team score 325. The Bulldogs were paced by co-SAC Player of the Year Johanna Neumann, whose score of five-over 77 tied with Coker's Taylor Demby for the top individual performance of round one.
Coker is five strokes behind WU in the team standings at 330, followed by No. 3 Tusculum at 334 and No. 4 Carson-Newman at 339.
Newberry – the two-time defending SAC women's champion – is tied with Catawba for fifth at 340, while Queens is seventh at 341 and LMU is eighth at 349. Rounding out the standings are No. 9 Anderson at 369, No. 10 Mars Hill at 374 and No. 11 Lenoir-Rhyne at 379.
After Neumann and Demby, LMU's Sydney Gallant, Queens' Grace Glaze and Catawba's Madison Kennedy are tied for third on the women's individual leaderboard after each posting rounds of 78 on Sunday.