DANIELS, W.Va. - Junior Alex Carrigan (Guelph, Ontario) and freshman Jamin Smith (Holly Springs, NC) paced the Golden Eagles men's golf team shooting 230 in three-rounds at the NCAA East/Atlantic Golf Regional.
Carrigan shot the overall lowest round with a 72 on the closing day of the tournament as he a Smith tied for 22nd place overall.
Host Concord University placed three players in the top 14 as the Mountain Lions led wire-to-wire and prevailed as the NCAA Division II Atlantic/East Men's Golf Regional champions.
CU's 54-hole team total of 893 at the Resort at Glade Springs' Cobb Course outdistanced second place Indiana (PA) by 11 shots. St. Thomas Aquinas (916), Ohio Valley (917), and Clarion (924) earned the other qualifying spots to the upcoming NCAA Division II national championship.
Clarion used a late rush to nip American International by one stroke for the final team qualifying position in large part thanks to Ross Pringle's two-under 70 on Thursday, the day's best score.
Indiana (PA)'s Gavin Smith, the defending national individual champion, carded a 74 on Thursday and held on by one stroke over Concord's Ryan Terdik for medalist honors. Smith who opened with a tournament-low 68 in the opening round on Monday ended at one-under par 215. Clarion's Pringle finished third three shots behind.
Garrett Beyor of American International (4th, 222) and Gannon's Drew Deimel (225, T-6th) took the two individual qualifying positions reserved for players not on an advancing team.
