Jim Mullins
Assistant Director
Sports Information

UMass Dartmouth posts 2-0 mark in team events and 4 top 10 finishes during Spring '01 season

(Dartmouth, MA) -- UMass Dartmouth's men's golf team posted a pair of victories in head to head competition and had four top ten finishes in New England intercollegiate golf tournaments during the Spring 2001 season.

Coach Paul Fistori's Corsairs competed in seven events during the spring portion of their season, which was highlighted by a fifth place finish in the annual Massachusetts Intercollegiate Championship.

Led by senior captain Joey Lopes' (Sagamore Beach, MA) round of 76, the Corsairs took fifth overall from a field of 20 teams in the annual Massachusetts Intercollegiate Championship held April 19 at Stowe (MA) Acres Country Club. Finishing third overall among the individual scorers for the event, Lopes was UMass Dartmouth's low man for the tournament. Senior Mark Loud (Pocasset, MA) was UMass Dartmouth's second best score with an 82, followed by an 83 from sophomore Ryan Derosier (Bridgewater, MA) and an 84 from freshman Andy Bell (Framingham, MA). The Corsairs fired a combined team score of 325 to place fifth behind team champion Boston College (307).

UMass Dartmouth also turned in a third place performance at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Invitational played April 25 at Holden Hills Country Club in Worcester, MA. Derosier was the Corsairs' low man at 77 with Pelletier two back at 79. Lopes carded an 83 and Bell was fourth at 84. The Corsairs also finished sixth in the District One Shootout hosted by Williams College on April 28-29.

Country Club of New Bedford, the Corsairs' home course for the season, also played host to a pair of invitational tournaments during the Spring 2001 season. From a field of five teams on April 2, the Corsairs tied for first with Roger Williams University at 346. Ryan Pelletier's round of 79 was UMass Dartmouth's low round followed by an 88 from Derosier, an 89 from Lopes and a 90 from Bell. On April 9, the Corsairs finished third in a four-team field led by Pelletier's 86. Derosier, freshman Kyle Skubas (New Haven, CT) and Lopes each carded 87's for a team total of 347.

After competing in each of the Corsairs' nine events during the Spring 2001 season with a stroke average of 82.9 per 18 holes, Derosier edged out Lopes and Pelletier for the low average for the season. With eight rounds in the 80's and a season's best 77 at WPI, Derosier finished .4 strokes ahead of Pelletier, who had an 83.3 stroke average. Derosier had a pair of rounds at 79 and six rounds in the 80's. Lopes finished third in stroke average at 83.8, which included a 76 at the Massachusetts Intercollegiate Championships and a 79 in the District One Shootout.

Lopes' round of 76 tied Bell and Skubus for the Corsairs' lowest rounds of the season. Bell shot his 76 at the Yale Invitational Tournament, while Skubus carded his 76 in the season-ending matches against MIT and Stonehill College.

Rounding out the Corsairs' other top stroke averages for the season were Loud at 85.3, Bell at 86.5 and Skubus at 86.6.