Tucson AZ. – The first day of the Arizona Intercollegiate is in the books, and the University of New Mexico Men’s Golf team is near the top. Due to darkness no groups finished all 36 scheduled holes, the closing holes of the second 18 of the day have been suspended and are slated to begin tomorrow morning.
At days end the University of New Mexico’s Men’s Golf team sitting in fourth place at 7-over 536. The Lobos were lead by Andre Garcia who had six birdies on the day and closed his final nine holes in 4-under fashion. Garcia carded a 3-under 68 and sat in 3rd place overall after the first 18.
Andrej Bevins came in with a solid 1-over 72 after the first round. Bevins took advantage of the pin positions and was able to card four birdies through the first 18, landing him in 14th position overall.
The second 18 of the day belonged to Freshman Sean Carlon who, after struggling in the first round, gained some confidence and finished with a 3-under 68, and 3-over overall for the tournament. Carlon had four birdies in his second round and the lone blemish came in the form of a bogey on 18.
UNM Head Coach Glen Millican saw the positives stating “both rounds have been pretty solid for us. We had Garcia going in the first round and Sean in the second round. We’ll need to get out early and finish the second round well and play a good final round.”
But he also understands that there’s a long day and still plenty of work to be done tomorrow.
“The guys did a good job today and put us in a good position going into tomorrow.”
The course played difficult despite temperatures in the mid sixties and calm wind conditions. Only three holes – the first, eighth and the 16th –carried under-par averages for the day.
New Mexico had a solid statistical day placing inside the top five in par 3, par 4 and par 5 scoring. As a team, the Lobos had 30 birdies good for fourth most in the tournament and 100 pars, tied for the most on the day.
Currently there are three Lobos inside the top twenty. Led by Andre Garcia at 2-under T4, Sean Carlon at 3-over T16 and Gustavo Morantes at 4-over T18.
23rd ranked Washington currently sits atop the leaderboard at 9-under, sitting two shots behind is 10th ranked Texas and rounding out the top three is 2014 tournament champion and 21st ranked California.
On the individual side the tournament leaders are Washington’s Frank Garber and Beau Hossler from Texas at 8-under, neither have completed the second 18.