May 7, 2007
Longwood East Regional Men's Golf Notes (PDF)
NCAA DIVISION I MEN'S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS RELEASE
FARMVILLE, Va. -- The Longwood University men’s golf team has earned an invitation to the 2007 NCAA Division I East Regional Championships as the Lancers have advanced to post-season during their first year of Division I eligibility — the school’s first Division I post-season team qualification. Longwood is one of four teams from the Mid-Atlantic Region and among 27 teams and six individuals (not on a selected team) invited to the 54-hole East Regional to be played May 17-19 at The Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta, Georgia near Atlanta. There are three regional sites of competition (81 teams, 18 individuals) toward qualifications to the 110th Annual Division I Men’s Golf Championships May 30-June 2 at the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club’s Gold Course in Williamsburg.
“We have all worked extremely hard to get to this point,” said 10th-year head coach Kevin Fillman. “Our players deserve this opportunity. It has been our goal for the past two years to make the regional tournament in our first year of eligibility, so it’s a relief to be in. Now that we’ve met that goal, it changes things a little. Our new goal is to go play at our highest possible level and see if it’s good enough for us to advance to the National Championships.”
Longwood finished the regular season with a new school-record 296.83 team scoring average through 23 rounds. The Lancers earned one tournament title (Mount St. Mary’s, 881) while compiling eight top three team finishes among top 10 efforts in all 11 tournament competitions, led by freshman standout Adam Webb/Ridgeway (Magna Vista) who averaged a new school-record 72.78. Webb won two events (Liberty/Radford, 139; Mount St. Mary’s, 216) while posting six top five finishes among nine top 10 efforts overall with a low round of 68 two times as well as a round of 69.
Webb has been joined in the lineup by sophomore Scooter Buhrman/Fayetteville (Jack Britt) and junior Mark Coradi/Chesapeake (Great Bridge) as team members who have played all 23 rounds this year. Buhrman has averaged 73.96 with two runner-up finishes among his five top 10 efforts overall with a low round of 70 two times. Coradi has averaged 74.57 with one second-place effort among his three top 10 finishes overall with a low round of 68 one time. Webb, Buhrman, and Coradi have been joined this spring by redshirt senior Michael Joyce/Peterborough, Ontario, Canada (Collegiate) (17 rounds, 77.35 average, low round of 73 two times) and redshirt junior Brett Chambers/Mount Sidney (Fort Defiance) (17 rounds, 77.65, low round of 74 three times). Longwood posted five team rounds under 290, including a low round of 284, among 14 rounds under 300 during the campaign. The Lancers had four-straight runner-up finishes this spring prior to winning their final event April 20-21 at Mount St. Mary’s tournament.
Also on the Longwood roster this year are senior Chris Shuford/Fredericksburg (Colonial Forge) (77.20), junior John Rosenstock/Midlothian (Midlothian) (78.83), sophomore Allain Blanchard/Williamsburg (Jamestown) (82.80), along with freshmen Greg Brouse/Leesburg (Heritage) (84.25) and Garrison Fowler/Williamsburg (Jamestown) (81.33).
Longwood men’s golf has Division I eligibility this year via the NCAA’s Multidivisional Reclassification (along with women’s lacrosse), one-year ahead of the school’s remaining 12 sports that will gain DI eligibility in September for 2007-08. The only other Virginia schools earning invitations were Virginia Tech and Old Dominion.
