Men's Golf Release (03-04) - Mar. 4 poll - Guilford College

  • GUILFORD GOLFERS HOLD AT SECOND IN NATIONAL POLL

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Greensboro, NC (03/04/04) -- Guilford's men's golf team remained in second place in the March 4 Division III Precept Coaches Poll, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced Thursday. Methodist remained atop the poll as it has all season and received 12 first-place votes. Guilford earned 451 points. St. John's (MN), moved back into a second-place tie, thanks in part to two first-place votes. Gustavus Adolphus slipped a spot to fourth place with 450 points, despite earning five first-place votes. Greensboro dropped to 11th place in this week's poll.

Coach Jack Jensen's Quakers stood 12th in the preseason Precept poll, but rose steadily thanks to a very successful fall season. Guilford won its season-opening Uwharrie Point/Johnny Palmer Invitational and recorded second-place finishes at the Greensboro Invitational and the North Shore/Pfeiffer Intercollegiate. The Quakers missed the team title in both tournaments by one stroke. Guilford claimed third in its own Tom O'Briant Memorial and its 'B' team finished fourth in the Dogfight at Stoney Creek. Guilford opened the spring season with a fifth-place finish among 23 teams at the Pine Needles/Pfeiffer Intercollegiate March 1-2. The team's 294.08 stroke average in 13 rounds leads the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC). The Quakers stand fourth in the March 2 Golfstat.com Division III Head-to-Head Rankings.

Sophomore Brant Stovall (Lawsonville, NC/North Stokes) leads Guilford with a 73.69 stroke average in 13 rounds. Sophomore Daniel Day (Cheshire, CT/Cheshire) stands second on the team with a 73.92 average. Rookie Colin Clark (Durham, NC/Chapel Hill) ranks third on the team with a 74.15 average.

Guilford competes in the Lee Nissan/Barton Intercollegiate March 7-8 in Wilson, NC, before heading to Camp Lejeune for the 33rd Camp Lejeune Intercollegiate March 26-28.

The Quakers finished 17th in the 2003 NCAA Division III National Tournament after winning the national title in 2002.