Fairfield Women's Golf Takes Home ECAC Championship Trophy
MAAC Sports
EDISON, N.J. – The Fairfield University Women’s Golf team claimed the 2014 ECAC Division I championship on Tuesday at the Lyman Orchards Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Middleton, Conn. The Stags scored a combined two-day team total of 640.
Fairfield came back on day two of competition after being down seven strokes to conference rival Siena. The Saints would finish the tournament in second place amassing a total score of 644. Earning All-Tournament team honors from the MAAC were Farfield’s Olivia Brooks (154) and Emma Ritzmann (160), Hartford’s Brooke Nethercott (159), as well as Siena’s Kristen Bromley (155) and Katie Nelson (160). Brooks, a native of Sturbridge, Mass., ended the championship with the lowest score from the two days of 154 after hitting a 75 on the final day of competition.
On the men’s side of the competition, Fairfield came in second place with a two-day team total of 582 at the ECAC Championship. Fairfield was only five strokes behind the University of Rhode Island which won the competition. The Stags were led by Richard Dowling who shot a -8 par on the second day of competition earning a 64 on the 72 par course. His second day score would put him in the competition record books as the competition’s new course record. Dowling finished both days with a total score of 139, a tie for first with URI’s Makenzie Denver.
A number of MAAC golfers were named to the ECAC All-Tournament Team. Among them are Fairfield’s Dowling, Iona’s Taylor Bellemare 144) and Saint Peter’s Eric Edmunds (146).
Also competing in the ECAC Championship from the MAAC were Iona which finished third with a total score of 596, Saint Peter’s finishing in fourth with a team score of 599 and Rider rounding out the competition with a score of 622.