Olean, N.Y. / Bartlett Country Club-The Robert
Morris University men's golf team tied the team record for lowest 18-hole score
Sunday firing a 285 in the first round of the 23rd Annual Leo Keenan
Invitational hosted by St. Bonaventure University. The cumulative score of
five-over par has left the Colonials with a nine-stroke lead over the rest of
the 11-team field playing at Bartlett Country Club in Olean, N.Y.
RMU also managed to tally scores of 285 at the 2009 and
the 2010 Bucknell Men's Fall Invitationals.
Things were so good for the Colonials in Monday's round
that they had to throw out a score of three-over par 73 and five of the team's
six players are in the top-10. Junior Brock Pompeani (Aliquippa, Pa. /
Hopewell) and freshmen Ryan Prokay (Grove City, Pa. / Grove City) and Bo Lustig
(Belle Vernon, Pa. / Belle Vernon) all shot rounds of 71 on the 6,308-yard
par-70 course.
Junior Brandon Pompeani (Aliquippa, Pa. / Hopewell) fired
a career-low 72 while classmate Max Cahn (Nyack, N.Y. / Nyack) came home with a
73. Even junior Donny Lewis (Wexford, Pa. / North Allegheny), playing as an
individual and in his first tourney of the year, carded a round of 72.
Brandon Pompeani, Lustig and Cahn managed four birdies
each, the third most among the 64 players who started the event. Those three
led a Robert Morris team that topped the field with 18 birds. RMU made its mark
on the par-four holes, playing them to an average of 4.05 strokes, beating the
next best team in the tournament by 12 strokes.
Brock Pompeani, Prokay and Lustig are tied for
fourth-place. Brandon Pompeani is tied for eighth with Lewis and Cahn is just
outside the top-10 in 13th.
Drexel is second sitting nine strokes behind RMU with a
294. Humber is third (295) followed by Cornell (296), St. Bonaventure (297),
Long Island (301), Ottawa and La Salle (304), Fairmont State (307), Saint
Francis (Pa.) (309) and Niagara 326.
Round two is slated for a shotgun start at 9:15 tomorrow
morning.
