STATESBORO, Ga. – The FGCU men’s golf crew entered the weekend with a possibility to reverse its recent Golfstat.com position fortune at the Schenkel Invitational, finishing tied for ninth Sunday.
No. 75 FGCU tied No. 43 Notre Dame with an 14-more than-par 878 final staff rating. On Saturday, the Eagles posted its occasion-best and fifth-most affordable spherical-two energy of the 14-team discipline, a a person-under 287, to climb up to ninth place.
Event host and No.19 Ga Southern received the team title at 27-less than-par 837. No.24 Mississippi State positioned second at 16-below 848.
Georgia Southern’s No. 83 Ben Carr captured the personal crown for the Eagles as well, taking pictures less than or even par all a few rounds to finish 8-underneath 208.
“I’m actually proud of our workforce,” reported FGCU men’s golfing head mentor Andrew Danna. “We discovered some regularity around the previous two days. We are going to glance to have that momentum into practice and our next function in Texas.”
Fifth-calendar year Jon Hopkins (Bishop’s Stortford, England/Hockerill Anglo-European University/Mississippi Gulf Coastline CC) and freshman Sam Baker (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS) had been the only two Eagles to finish in pink numbers Sunday, as both of those fired one-under 71s in their ultimate spherical.
Junior Austin Cherichella (Orlando, Fla./Lake Nona HS) paced the Eagles starting up 5, ending tied for 24th. Hopkins entered the clubhouse tied for 28th, and Baker tied for 59th after improving each and every spherical.
Cherichella’s 3-under 69 on Saturday aided him climb 21 spots on relocating day, and marked his workforce-leading 11th under-par spherical. Cherichella also cashed in on a par-5 eagle throughout his Saturday round-two functionality. On Sunday, he closed with a 75.
Saturday saw extra Eagle splendor, as Hopkins drilled a gap-in-just one on the 130-yard sixth gap — the to start with ace of the season for FGCU. Hopkins also enhanced the most among the the Eagle setting up five, slicing 8 strokes from his opening-round 78. Hopkins was the only Eagle to card two even- or beneath-par rounds during the match.
As a staff, FGCU tied for first in par-3 scoring along with No. 45 North Florida and a major-25 Mississippi Point out squad, and tied for fourth in made pars with 167.
Junior Thomas Salanito (Palm Harbor, Fla./Clearwater Central Catholic) led the Green & Blue in pars, sinking 37.
FGCU returns to the back links April 10-11 for its previous common-season party — The Aggie Invitational hosted by Texas A&M in Bryan-Faculty Station, Texas.
Very last period, FGCU men’s golfing made athletic division history by earning the FGCU’s first-ever at-significant bid into a NCAA Event function.
For comprehensive coverage of FGCU men’s golfing, follow the Eagles on Twitter and Instagram @FGCU_MGolf, Fb FGCU Men’s Golf), and on-line at www.FGCUAthletics.com. Eagles fans can also indication-up to have news on FGCU men’s golfing and all 15 sport plans delivered straight to your inbox by visiting www.fgcuathletics.com/e-mail.
FGCU Starting off Five:
Workforce LEADERBOARD:
HEAD Mentor ANDREW DANNA

Danna is in his fourth yr at the helm of the men’s golfing system with the Eagles earning FGCU’s initially-ever NCAA Event at-massive berth in section historical past through the 2022 season. He has led the Eagles to 2nd-position finishes at the 2021 and 2022 ASUN Championships and was named the program’s 1st-at any time ASUN Coach of the Yr (2021) and repeated in 2022. 1 of the greatest turnarounds in NCAA historical past noticed the Eco-friendly and Blue, led by Van Holmgren who became the to start with player to gain PING All-Area honors, leap from No. 257 in the remaining 2019-20 GolfStat.com rankings to a then application-very best 65 to shut out 2020-21. The Eagles set a new method-very best in the course of the 2022 period at No. 47 in the GolfStat.com rankings. Holmgren won the ASUN Championship particular person title to qualify for the NCAA Regionals. In advance of getting above in Fort Myers, he served the 2018-19 season as the assistant at LSU. Prior to that he was the extremely-thriving head mentor for six many years at Lynn University where by he led them to the 2018 NCAA Division II countrywide championship and was, subsequently, selected the David Williams Nationwide Mentor of the Calendar year. He also led the Fighting Knights to 3 national runner-up placements, with a third and eighth put complete in his other two seasons.


E.A.G.L.E. Marketing campaign

IT Requires A Team to achieve our newest intention – a $10 million campaign to handle student-athlete wants in continued educational results, everyday living expertise, psychological well being, nutrition, and strength and conditioning as nicely as departmental demands in facility expansion and improvement as perfectly as mentoring and management training for coaches and staff. The identify embodies our mission and the intent of the E.A.G.L.E. Campaign – Eagle Athletics Making Life time Excellence. Sign up for Our Staff and pledge your reward today to aid the Eagles of tomorrow!


#FEEDFGCU

FGCU Athletics sponsors activities in November and April to reward the FGCU Campus Food Pantry (https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry) and the Harry Chapin Food items Financial institution (www.harrychapinfoodbank.org), FGCU Athletics’ charities of selection. For extra info, which include how to make a contribution, make sure you take a look at https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry and benefit from the hashtag #FeedFGCU to enable elevate consciousness.
ABOUT FGCU

FGCU teams have blended to acquire an outstanding 96 convention frequent year and tournament titles in just 15-plus seasons at the Division I stage. Furthermore, in just 11-moreover seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have experienced a blended 48 teams or men and women contend in NCAA championships. In 2022, the men’s golf staff turned the to start with application to make an at-significant berth to the NCAA Event. Nine FGCU systems have acquired a leading-25 nationwide ranking in their respective activity – together with women’s basketball (No. 20 in 2021-22 and No. 22 in 2022-23), baseball (No. 20 in 2023), beach volleyball (No. 20, 2022), and both of those men’s soccer (2018, 2019) and women’s soccer (2018) as 5 of the most the latest. In 2016-17, the Eco-friendly & Blue posted a section-ideal sixth-place finish in the DI-AAA Learfield Directors’ Cup and prime-100 displaying nationally, forward of quite a few Electrical power-5 and FBS establishments. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida finest seven groups earn the NCAA’s General public Recognition Award for their Educational Progress Amount in their sport. FGCU also collectively acquired a report 3.66 GPA in the classroom in the fall 2022 semester and has outperformed the standard College undergraduate population for 27 consecutive semesters. The previous seven semesters (Drop 2019 – Drop 2022) noticed a further milestone reached as all 15 applications realized a 3.-or-higher cumulative group GPA. The Eagles also served an all-time significant 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 – getting regarded as 1 of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Local community Services Award presented by the Fiesta Bowl.


—FGCUATHLETICS.COM—
