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KINGSTON SPRINGS, Tenn. – Loyola University Maryland's golf team will make its 10
th all-time appearance in the NCAA Regional starting Monday when the Greyhounds head to Tennessee for 54 holes over three rounds.
The Greyhounds are the No. 11 seed at the Kingston Spring Regional and will play at The Golf Club of Tennessee. Eleventh is the highest the Greyhounds have been seeded in their nine previous NCAA Regional appearances.
Head Coach
Chris Baloga will send out the same lineup that posted an 18-shot victory at the Patriot League Championships earlier this month:
Brandon Berry,
Evan Brown,
Trent Geritz,
Brett Inserra,
Nick Mejia and
Carlo Pizzano. Five players will compete each day at the Championships with four scores counting. One player may be substituted to the team lineup prior to each round.
Berry won the Patriot League Championships for his first collegiate win, shooting 1-over 211 at the U.S. Naval Aacdemy Golf Course for a three-shot win over Brown who was second at 4-over, seven shots in front of a group tied for third.
Loyola's duo has been outstanding this season as they have strung together consistent high finishes. Brown's second-place finish at the Patriot League Championships was his fifth top-5 finish of the year and third in a row, and Berry now has top-15 finishes in all six tournaments, top-10s in five and top-5s in four.
Brown, who won Penn State University's Rutherford Intercollegiate last month, enters the NCAA Championships ranked No. 77 in NCAA Division I by GolfStat. Berry is 152
nd in the same rankings.
Inserra comes into the Regionals having played in all six of this year's tournaments and has a 76.67 scoring average. Pizzano has seen action in five outings with a 76.13 average. Mejia tied for 21
st at the Patriot League Championships, his best finish of the year, and Geritz also competed in the conference tournament, tying for a career-best 18
th.
The Golf Club of Tennessee opened in 1991. Tom Fazio fashioned a course on 317 acres of rolling land in a quiet and pastoral setting. Featuring zoysia fairways, Bermuda roughs and A1 bent grass greens, the 7,184-yard, par-71 course sprawls over nearly twice the acreage of a traditional 18-hole course.
