Hershey, Pa. / Hershey Links ? The Robert Morris University men's golf team capped their 2007-08 campaign with a sixth-place showing at the Northeast Conference Championships. The Colonials shot their two-lowest 72-hole team totals at the event to take second-place after the first and second rounds before a third round 309 pushed the squad back to sixth place in the 11-team field.
Sacred Heart won the team title at the par-72, 6,900-yard layout at Hershey Links in Hershey, Pa. The Pioneers fired a 280 in the second round to take the lead and win the event by 23 strokes with a 870 team total. Long Island (893) was second followed by Central Connecticut State (895), Mount St. Mary's (896), Monmouth (897), Robert Morris (898), Saint Francis (Pa.) (902), Fairleigh Dickinson (905), Quinnipiac (912), Wagner (983) and St. Francis (N.Y.) (1,043).
Monmouth's Anthony Camponile, a senior, earned the NEC individual championship for the second time fired a four-under 212 total with rounds of 70, 71, and 71.
Freshman C.G. Mercatoris (Brookville, Pa. / Brookville) led Robert Morris tying for 14th place overall. Mercators shot even-par in the opening round followed by a 77 and a 75 for a 224 total. Senior Jimmy Tomaseski (Clifton, Va. / Centreville) was one stroke back in a tie for 17th, shooting 74 in each of the first two rounds and a final round 77 for a 225 total.
Juniors Joe Horvat (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Shaler) and Shane Brant (Latrobe, Pa. / Greater Latrobe) tied for 23rd with 228 totals. Horvat sandwiched a 77 and a 79 around an even-par 72 second round. Brant opened with a 72 before posting 75 and 81 in the final two rounds. Sophomore Joe Kabana (East Stroudsburg, Pa. / Notre Dame) tied for 27th carding 78 in the first and third rounds and a 73 in the second round for a 229 total.
