09/29/2009

Saints Win PAC Fall Invite and Ruzick Earns Medalist Honors

Complete Results

(WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa.) - The Thomas More College men's golf team shot a 36-hole total of 599 (293-306) to win the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Fall Invitational today (Tuesday, September 29, 2009) and senior Joe Ruzick (Cincinnati, Ohio/LaSalle) earned medalist honors at the event held at Oak Tree Country Club in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania.

The Saints' 599 was 27-strokes lower then runner-up Washington & Jefferson College's 626.  The PAC Fall Invitational counts towards one half of the 72-hole total used to determine the 2009-10 PAC champion, which earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship.  The final 36 holes will be played at Oak Tree in April of 2010.

Ruzick carded a 141 (68-73) to earn medalist honors over his teammate junior Brandon Dulle (Cincinnati, Ohio/Saint Xavier), who finished second with a 145 (71-74).  Rounding out the Saints' golfers were sophomore Jarrett Gronauer (West Chester, Ohio/Moeller), who finished 11th with a 156 (77-79), junior Jacob Bowman (Latonia, Ky./Holy Cross) in a tie for 12th with a 157 (77-80) and sophomore Mike Pharo (Cincinnati, Ohio/Moeller) in 19th place with a 162 (82-80).

The Saints close out their Fall season on Saturday (October 3) when they play in the 18-hole Centre College Invitational in Danville, Kentucky.