Final Round Surge Earns #MGolf Championship at Quail Valley Intercollegiate

Tuesday, October 28

Vero Beach, Fla. (Quail Valley GC)

8:40 a.m.

University of North Florida

Quail Valley Intercollegiate

Final Round Surge Earns #MGolf Championship at Quail Valley Intercollegiate

10/28/2014 4:43:00 PM | Men's Golf

By: North Florida Athletics

Final Results (pdf)

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Powered by a record low regular season tournament total, the No. 34 North Florida men's golf team claimed its second tournament title of the season Tuesday at the Quail Valley Intercollegiate. The Ospreys finished with a 24-under par total of 840 and topped the 15 team field by six shots.

UNF's final score marked the second lowest 54-hole total in program history, bettered only by the team's round of 830 at the 2013 NCAA Tallahasse Regional. Joey Petronio paced a trio of Top 10 individual finishers for the Ospreys, placing fourth at 9-under par 207. The senior shot a final round 70 (-2) in picking up his second top five finish of the season.

Fellow senior MJ Maguire fired a final round 7-under par 65, highlighted by a blistering 6-under performance on the front nine, en route to ending the tournament tied for fifth at 210 (-6). Redshirt freshman Dillon Woods finished tied for seventh at 5-under par 211, marking his first career tournament total under-par and his best tournament finish.

Junior Taylor Hancock tied for 29th at 217 (+1) including a final round 2-under 70, while fellow junior Austin Padova rounded out the Osprey lineup in a tie for 54th at 223 (+7).

"This was a nice win and a full team effort today," said UNF head coach Scott Schroeder, who has now led the program to 14 tournament titles in his 10-year tenure. "I challenged the guys last night and they responded with the low round of the tournament. This definitely shows that we are getting better and need to continue working to get to where we ultimately want to be."

No. 83 Tennessee finished second using a strong final round to tally a total of 846. No. 87 Michigan State finished third at 853 with Stephen F. Austin (854) and McNeese State (857) rounding out the Top Five teams. Kentucky's Tyler McDaniel and Jack Smith of the Vols shared the medalist honor with 11-under par rounds of 205.

North Florida next travels to Hawaii for its fall season finale on Nov. 7-9 at the Ka'anapali Collegiate Classic.

1	North Florida	278	286	276	840
4	Joey Petronio	72	65	70	207
T5	MJ Maguire	68	77	65	210
T7	Dillon Woods	68	72	71	211
T29	Taylor Hancock	75	72	70	217
T54	Austin Padova	70	77	76	223