Wheeling Males’s Golf Holds Share of High Three Spot After 18 Holes of NCAA DII Atlantic/East Regional Championship

Johnstown, PA. – After all of the coaching over the previous few weeks, the Wheeling University Men’s Golf crew made the journey to Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Thursday for the primary spherical of the 2026 NCAA DII Atlantic/East Regional Championships. After 18 holes of competitors, the Cardinals discover themselves in prime place early, sitting tied for third with Pitt-Johnstown at 289. It was the Cardinal’s lowest single spherical rating of the spring season as far as they give the impression of being to make a transfer in spherical two on Friday. 

Leading the best way was sophomore Zak Collins, who was one in every of 5 golfers on the occasion to complete with a subpar rating on the day. He shot a 69 (-1) for the spherical, sitting simply two strokes away from the Men’s Golf Single-Round report. He would tee-off on gap one, and balanced a Bogey with a Birdie early on, and sat at even after three holes. He would hit his hardest stretch on holes 5-7, including two strokes to his rating, however completed the entrance 9 robust. He would hit Birdie on back-to-back holes and evened out his rating earlier than heading to the again 9. He got here across the flip robust, selecting up three straight pars, earlier than hitting his fourth birdie of the day on gap 13 to maneuver to –1. He would reply with back-to-back pars, however sat even heading into the ultimate gap after a bogey on 16. He rounded out the day robust together with his fifth and last birdie on gap 18, to complete –1 for the spherical. 

The different Cardinal to complete at par or higher was graduate scholar Sean Dobson, who finsihed in a tie for seventh capturing par for the occasion. He began his time off constant on the entrance 9, capturing three straight pars high open the spherical. However, he would find yourself including three strokes to his rating over the ultimate six holes and went into the flip sitting at +3. However, all three of these strokes have been taken proper again when he hit the flip, capturing par on gap 10, and hitting three straight birdies to get to even par. He would hit pars the remainder of the best way, rounding out the occasion spherical. Rounding out the Cardinal’s high three was Elias Ekenes-Fosback, who sits tied for forty second capturing a 74 (+4) for the spherical. His entrance 9 would see him shoot a +4, however he would take the again 9 to finish a powerful day. He balanced out a Bogey together with his lone Birdie of the spherical, ending at +4 on the day. 

The different two Cardinal golfers on the day have been Lodin Femoen and Troy Loughry to spherical out their first spherical. The last scoring member of the Cardinal crew was Femoen, who completed the spherical with a 76 to take a seat at +6 for the day. Femoen shot equivalent +3’s on the entrance 9 and the again 9, however had extra consistency on the entrance 9. He would hit par on seven of the 9 holes, earlier than rounding out the day with six pars to spherical out the trouble. Troy Loughry would end up the day, capturing a 77 to complete at +7 for the spherical. His strongest exhibiting would come on the entrance 9, the place he shot +3, earlier than hitting +4 on the again 9 to spherical out the trouble. 

The Wheeling University Men’s Golf crew performs spherical two of the NCAA DII Atlantic/East Regional Championships on Friday, May eighth, with tee instances starting at 11:40 AM.