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2011-12 POST UNIVERSITY GOLF GAME NOTES NCAA DIVISION II CHAMPIONSHIP MAY 15-19, 2012 THE CARDINAL CLUB 8 Consecutive NCAA Appearances (2005-2012) • 1 NCAA Championship Appearance (2012) SETTING THE SCENE:
2011-12 Schedule: FALL 9/10-9/11 St. Rose Fall Shootout 2nd/11 Pine Haven CC – Guiderland, N.Y. 9/16-9/17 Rutgers Invitational
7th/15
Rutgers Golf Course – New Brunswick, N.J.
NCAA Division II Championship Tuesday, May 15- Saturday, May 19, 2012 Simpsonville, Ky. – The Cardinal Club -- 54 Holes-Par 72- 7,092 yards Live Scoring Cardinal Club Info
9/189/18-9/19 Northeast Intercollegiate 2nd/15 Timberlin CC – Berlin, Conn. 9/23-9/25 Dowling Fall Invitational 2nd/18 Long Island National – Riverhead, N.Y. 10/11-10/14 Nova SE Shark Invitational 13th/14 PGA Champions Course, W. Palm Beach, Fla.
SPRING 2/27-2/28 Irish Creek Intercollegiate 4th/10 Irish Creek CC – Kannapolis, N.C. 3/2-3/4 Southern Swing Invitational 2nd/10 Woodland Valley CC – Loris, S.C. 3/19-3/20 Barton Intercollegiate Wilson CC – Wilson, N.C.
9th/18
3/31-4/1 Carolina Sands Intercollegiate 7th/15
Carolina Sands CC – White Lake, N.C. 4/10-4/11 CACC Championship 2nd/11 Whitemarsh Valley CC – Lafayette Hill, Pa. 5/7-5/9 NCAA Atlantic/East Regional 4th/20 Hershey Country Club – Hershey, Pa. 5/15-5/19 NCAA Division II Championship Cardinal Country Club – Simpsonville, Ky. Bold indicates Post as host school.
TOURNAMENT PREVIEW: With a fourth place finish at the NCAA Atlantic/East Regional, the Post University golf team advanced to the first NCAA Championship in program history. It also became the first program in school history to compete for an NCAA National Title. The top five finishers in each of the four regionals will face-off in a 54-hole tournament. The top eight teams after 54-holes will be seeded into a bracket and face-off against one other team. Each team match will consist of five points with one point being awarded for each individual match. Winning teams will advance to the semifinals and subsequently the finals. The first team to win three points takes the match and advances. SEASON RECAP: The Eagles had a strong fall season, finishing in second place in three of their five tournaments. Junior Thomas Rees had the lowest scoring average of 75.5 per round during the early season. Post opened up with a second place finish at the St. Rose fall shootout with a second place finish out of 11 participants. The Eagles carded a 611, five shots behind winner Bentley. Rees led the Eagles with a 149 (77-72) good for a fifth place finish.
The Eagles traveled to the Rutgers Invitational next to face some Division I programs. Post finished in sixth place, ahead of five Division I schools at 903. Ross Earnshaw led the charge with a 224 (77-72-75), finishing in 21st. Post hosted the Northeast Intercollegiate and finished second behind CACC rival Wilmington. Rees finished fourth at 150 (73-77). The Eagles grabbed another second place finish at the Dowling Fall Invitational. They finished the spring with a 13th place finish in the Nova Southern Shark Invitational. After placing fourth at the Irish Creek Intercollegiate, the Eagles finished second, one stroke behind host Dowling, at the Southern Swing Invitational. Marchant de Villiers, Villiers Rees, and Earnshaw all tied for third place at 77. Rees carded the first under par round of the Eagles season with a two-under 70 in round one of the Barton Intercollegiate. Post finished in ninth at the tournament with a score of 612. Sophomore Anthony Netto finished in third place at the Carolina Sands Intercollegiate after shooting the lowest two rounds of the Eagles
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2011-12 POST EAGLES GOLF (NCAA DIVISON II CHAMPIONSHIP) SCORING AVERAGE T. Rees…………………………………..75.76 A. Netto………………………………….75.76 R. Earnshaw……………………………75.90 S. Noesgaard………………………… 78.67 M. de Villiers………………………….. 78.83 A. McNamara ……………………….. 85.00 TOP-10 FINISHES T. Rees……………………………………….5 A. Netto ……………………………………. 3 S. Noesgaard ……………………………. 2 M. de Villiers………………………………. 2 R. Earnshaw………………………………. 2 LOW ROUND A. Netto…………………………………68 (-4) R. Earnshaw…………………………. 69 (-3) A. Netto……………………………….. 70 (-2) T. Rees………………………………….70 (-2) LOW 36-HOLE SCORE A. Netto…………………………………..138 T. Rees…………………………………… 144 R. Earnshaw…………………………… 145 S. Noesgaard…………………………. 147 EAGLES TEE TIMES Round One 10th Tee – 12:00 p.m.-12:40 p.m. Round Two 10th Tee – 7:30 a.m.-8:10 a.m. PAST NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 2000 – Florida Southern 2001 – West Florida 2002 – Rollins 2003 – Francis Marion 2004 – South Carolina-Aiken 2005 – South Carolina-Aiken 2006 – South Carolina-Aiken 2007 – Barry 2008 – West Florida 2009 – Sonoma State 2010 – Florida Southern 2011 – California State-Monterey Bay
season a six-under 138 (70-68). Post finished in seventh with a 588 (290298), which was its lowest team score of the season. The Eagles finished second at the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Championship, 12 strokes behind champion Wilmington. Rees was named to the All-Tournament Team after shooting a 153 (76-77), good for fourth place. Two other Eagles placed in the top-10 as Earnshaw, 155 (79-76), and Netto, 156 (79-77), placed seventh and ninth, respectively. The Eagles finished the NCAA Atlantic/East Regional with a score of 942 (316-312-314). Rees was the Eagles top finisher, placing 12th with a 231 (76-75-80) POST IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT: Post has been selected to the NCAA Regional in each of the last eight seasons, but is making it first appearance in the championship. The Eagles have finished in the top-10 three times, most recently in 2011. Last season, Post finished in eighth place with a score of 911 (292-314305). THREE EAGLES NAMED ALL-CACC: Anthony Netto was named CACC Rookie of the Year at the CACC Golf Banquet on April 9. Ross Earnshaw and junior Thomas Rees were also named to the All-CACC Team. Netto, was named CACC Rookie of the Week on April 3. He became the second Post golfer in as many years to be named CACC Rookie of the Year as Earnshaw held the honor in 2011. Earnshaw was named to the All-CACC Team for the second consecutive season. He has the second lowest scoring average on the Eagles at 75.90. Rees made his second straight appearance on the All-CACC Team. He was also named to the CAACC AllTournament team. He leads the Eagles with five top-10 finishes. Rees has the lowest scoring average on the team at
75.76. POST FRESHMAN CLASS IMPACT: Golfstat.com has ranked the freshman class impact of the Eagles as 17th in NCAA Division II out of over 200 schools nationwide. The scores for Sebastian Noesgaard and Anthony McNamara were included in the rankings. The two combined to play in 25 rounds this season and post a scoring average of 78.92, which was adjusted to 77.04 for the purpose of the rankings. The Eagles had a relative strength score of 199.247 to place them in 17th overall. Freshman class impact is calculated by taking the adjusted scoring averages of the freshman that have played in the most rounds are compared between all teams throughout the country. That is then factored into each team's adjusted average to come up with a relative strength score out of 1000. SCOUTING THE FIELD: The Eagles will face some tough competition if they want to bring home the first NCAA Championship in school history as 13 of the top 25 teams in the country make the trip to Simpsonville. The No. 1 team in the county, Barry, is making its fourth straight championship appearance. The Buccaneers won the National Championship in 2007 and finished second in the South/Southeast Regional. No. 2 Nova Southeastern shot an 11under 277 in the final round of the South/Southeast Regional to come from 15 strokes down to advance. No. 3 California State-Stanislaus is making its 19th championship appearance out of the last 23 years after winning the Central/West Regional. South Carolina-Aiken won three straight NCAA Championships from 2004-2006 and is making its 13 appearance in the championship round.
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2011-12 POST EAGLES GOLF (NCAA DIVISON II CHAMPIONSHIP) 2011-12 Post University Eagles Golf Roster Name Nick Cavallo Ross Earnshaw Jay Gerrick Joe Massicotte
Yr. So. So. Fr. So. Anthony McNamara Fr. Anthony Netto So. Sebastian Noesgaard Fr. Thomas Rees Jr.
Wt. 185 163 170 240 130 156 187 170
Ht. 5-10 5-10 6-2 5-10 5-8 6-0 6-6 6-0
Hometown Watertown, Conn. York, England London, England Waterbury, Conn. Beacon Falls, Conn.
Last School Holy Cross High School Easingwold Secondary St. Clement Danes School W.F. Kaynor Tech Woodland High School
Major Sport Management Sport Management Business Management Sport Management Accounting International Business Finance Accounting
Dusseldorf, Germany Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker Copenhagen, Denmark
Solrod Gymnasium
Cardif, Wales
Ysgol Gyjun Gymraeg Plasmawr
Head Coach: Pete Stevens Assistant Coach: Don Samatulski Strength and Fitness Coach: Jason DeSombre TOURNAMENT SCORECARDS Season Cumulative Stats Fall 2011
St. Rose R1 St. Rose R2 Total Finish Rutgers R1Rutgers R2Rutgers R3 Total Finish N. Eng. R1 N. Eng. R2
Total Finish Dowling R1Dowling R2 Total Finish NSU R1 NSU R2 NSU R3
Total Finish
Thomas Rees
77
72
149
5
77
70
78
225 t25
73
77
150
t4
72
72
144 4th
82
80
77
239
t65
Ross Earnshaw
80
76
156 t15
77
72
75
224 t21
76
79
155
t18
77
73
150 t12
80
80
75
235
t54
Sebastian Noesgaard
76
78
154 t11
75
77
75
227 t34
74
76
150
t4
72
75
147
78
78
80
236
t57
Marchant de Villiers
75
77
152 t8
79
80
75
234 t51
77
78
155
t18
76
80
156 t26
Joe Massicotte
86
83
169 45
78
75
77
230 t41
76
79
155
t18
75
77
152 t17
77
83
75
235
t54
77
82
80
239
t65
t8
Anthony Netto
Spring 2012
I. Creek R1 I. Creek R2 Total Finish S. Swing
Finish Barton R1 Barton R2 Total Finish Carolina R1Carolina R2 Total
Finish
CACC R1 CACC R2 Total Finish NCAA R1 NCAA R2 NCAA R3 Total Finish
Thomas Rees
76
75
151 t24
77
t3
70
76 146
t9
78
79
157
t59
77
76 153
4
76
75
80
231 t12
Ross Earnshaw
75
74
149 t17
77
t3
75
73 148
t21
69
76
145
t21
79
76 155
t7
77
77
81
235 t24
Anthony Netto
72
80
152 t27
78
6
78
75 153
t40
70
68
138
t3
79
77 156
t8
85
80
77
242 t57
Sebastian Noesgaard
82
74
156 39
83
t17
81
84 165
t72
76
76
152
t43
80
83 163 t13
78
80
78
236 t27
85
t25
87
85 172
86 75
78
153
t48
97
90 187 t48
90
80
79
249 t80
Jay Gerrick Anthony McNamara Marchant de Villiers
88
84
172 59
77
t3
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2011-12 Schedule: FALL 9/10-9/11 St. Rose Fall Shootout 2nd/11 Pine Haven CC – Guiderland, N.Y. 9/16-9/17 Rutgers Invitational
7th/15
Rutgers Golf Course – New Brunswick, N.J.
NCAA Division II Championship Tuesday, May 15- Saturday, May 19, 2012 Simpsonville, Ky. – The Cardinal Club -- 54 Holes-Par 72- 7,092 yards Live Scoring Cardinal Club Info
9/189/18-9/19 Northeast Intercollegiate 2nd/15 Timberlin CC – Berlin, Conn. 9/23-9/25 Dowling Fall Invitational 2nd/18 Long Island National – Riverhead, N.Y. 10/11-10/14 Nova SE Shark Invitational 13th/14 PGA Champions Course, W. Palm Beach, Fla.
SPRING 2/27-2/28 Irish Creek Intercollegiate 4th/10 Irish Creek CC – Kannapolis, N.C. 3/2-3/4 Southern Swing Invitational 2nd/10 Woodland Valley CC – Loris, S.C. 3/19-3/20 Barton Intercollegiate Wilson CC – Wilson, N.C.
9th/18
3/31-4/1 Carolina Sands Intercollegiate 7th/15
Carolina Sands CC – White Lake, N.C. 4/10-4/11 CACC Championship 2nd/11 Whitemarsh Valley CC – Lafayette Hill, Pa. 5/7-5/9 NCAA Atlantic/East Regional 4th/20 Hershey Country Club – Hershey, Pa. 5/15-5/19 NCAA Division II Championship Cardinal Country Club – Simpsonville, Ky. Bold indicates Post as host school.
TOURNAMENT PREVIEW: With a fourth place finish at the NCAA Atlantic/East Regional, the Post University golf team advanced to the first NCAA Championship in program history. It also became the first program in school history to compete for an NCAA National Title. The top five finishers in each of the four regionals will face-off in a 54-hole tournament. The top eight teams after 54-holes will be seeded into a bracket and face-off against one other team. Each team match will consist of five points with one point being awarded for each individual match. Winning teams will advance to the semifinals and subsequently the finals. The first team to win three points takes the match and advances. SEASON RECAP: The Eagles had a strong fall season, finishing in second place in three of their five tournaments. Junior Thomas Rees had the lowest scoring average of 75.5 per round during the early season. Post opened up with a second place finish at the St. Rose fall shootout with a second place finish out of 11 participants. The Eagles carded a 611, five shots behind winner Bentley. Rees led the Eagles with a 149 (77-72) good for a fifth place finish.
The Eagles traveled to the Rutgers Invitational next to face some Division I programs. Post finished in sixth place, ahead of five Division I schools at 903. Ross Earnshaw led the charge with a 224 (77-72-75), finishing in 21st. Post hosted the Northeast Intercollegiate and finished second behind CACC rival Wilmington. Rees finished fourth at 150 (73-77). The Eagles grabbed another second place finish at the Dowling Fall Invitational. They finished the spring with a 13th place finish in the Nova Southern Shark Invitational. After placing fourth at the Irish Creek Intercollegiate, the Eagles finished second, one stroke behind host Dowling, at the Southern Swing Invitational. Marchant de Villiers, Villiers Rees, and Earnshaw all tied for third place at 77. Rees carded the first under par round of the Eagles season with a two-under 70 in round one of the Barton Intercollegiate. Post finished in ninth at the tournament with a score of 612. Sophomore Anthony Netto finished in third place at the Carolina Sands Intercollegiate after shooting the lowest two rounds of the Eagles
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2011-12 POST EAGLES GOLF (NCAA DIVISON II CHAMPIONSHIP) SCORING AVERAGE T. Rees…………………………………..75.76 A. Netto………………………………….75.76 R. Earnshaw……………………………75.90 S. Noesgaard………………………… 78.67 M. de Villiers………………………….. 78.83 A. McNamara ……………………….. 85.00 TOP-10 FINISHES T. Rees……………………………………….5 A. Netto ……………………………………. 3 S. Noesgaard ……………………………. 2 M. de Villiers………………………………. 2 R. Earnshaw………………………………. 2 LOW ROUND A. Netto…………………………………68 (-4) R. Earnshaw…………………………. 69 (-3) A. Netto……………………………….. 70 (-2) T. Rees………………………………….70 (-2) LOW 36-HOLE SCORE A. Netto…………………………………..138 T. Rees…………………………………… 144 R. Earnshaw…………………………… 145 S. Noesgaard…………………………. 147 EAGLES TEE TIMES Round One 10th Tee – 12:00 p.m.-12:40 p.m. Round Two 10th Tee – 7:30 a.m.-8:10 a.m. PAST NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 2000 – Florida Southern 2001 – West Florida 2002 – Rollins 2003 – Francis Marion 2004 – South Carolina-Aiken 2005 – South Carolina-Aiken 2006 – South Carolina-Aiken 2007 – Barry 2008 – West Florida 2009 – Sonoma State 2010 – Florida Southern 2011 – California State-Monterey Bay
season a six-under 138 (70-68). Post finished in seventh with a 588 (290298), which was its lowest team score of the season. The Eagles finished second at the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Championship, 12 strokes behind champion Wilmington. Rees was named to the All-Tournament Team after shooting a 153 (76-77), good for fourth place. Two other Eagles placed in the top-10 as Earnshaw, 155 (79-76), and Netto, 156 (79-77), placed seventh and ninth, respectively. The Eagles finished the NCAA Atlantic/East Regional with a score of 942 (316-312-314). Rees was the Eagles top finisher, placing 12th with a 231 (76-75-80) POST IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT: Post has been selected to the NCAA Regional in each of the last eight seasons, but is making it first appearance in the championship. The Eagles have finished in the top-10 three times, most recently in 2011. Last season, Post finished in eighth place with a score of 911 (292-314305). THREE EAGLES NAMED ALL-CACC: Anthony Netto was named CACC Rookie of the Year at the CACC Golf Banquet on April 9. Ross Earnshaw and junior Thomas Rees were also named to the All-CACC Team. Netto, was named CACC Rookie of the Week on April 3. He became the second Post golfer in as many years to be named CACC Rookie of the Year as Earnshaw held the honor in 2011. Earnshaw was named to the All-CACC Team for the second consecutive season. He has the second lowest scoring average on the Eagles at 75.90. Rees made his second straight appearance on the All-CACC Team. He was also named to the CAACC AllTournament team. He leads the Eagles with five top-10 finishes. Rees has the lowest scoring average on the team at
75.76. POST FRESHMAN CLASS IMPACT: Golfstat.com has ranked the freshman class impact of the Eagles as 17th in NCAA Division II out of over 200 schools nationwide. The scores for Sebastian Noesgaard and Anthony McNamara were included in the rankings. The two combined to play in 25 rounds this season and post a scoring average of 78.92, which was adjusted to 77.04 for the purpose of the rankings. The Eagles had a relative strength score of 199.247 to place them in 17th overall. Freshman class impact is calculated by taking the adjusted scoring averages of the freshman that have played in the most rounds are compared between all teams throughout the country. That is then factored into each team's adjusted average to come up with a relative strength score out of 1000. SCOUTING THE FIELD: The Eagles will face some tough competition if they want to bring home the first NCAA Championship in school history as 13 of the top 25 teams in the country make the trip to Simpsonville. The No. 1 team in the county, Barry, is making its fourth straight championship appearance. The Buccaneers won the National Championship in 2007 and finished second in the South/Southeast Regional. No. 2 Nova Southeastern shot an 11under 277 in the final round of the South/Southeast Regional to come from 15 strokes down to advance. No. 3 California State-Stanislaus is making its 19th championship appearance out of the last 23 years after winning the Central/West Regional. South Carolina-Aiken won three straight NCAA Championships from 2004-2006 and is making its 13 appearance in the championship round.
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2011-12 POST EAGLES GOLF (NCAA DIVISON II CHAMPIONSHIP) 2011-12 Post University Eagles Golf Roster Name Nick Cavallo Ross Earnshaw Jay Gerrick Joe Massicotte
Yr. So. So. Fr. So. Anthony McNamara Fr. Anthony Netto So. Sebastian Noesgaard Fr. Thomas Rees Jr.
Wt. 185 163 170 240 130 156 187 170
Ht. 5-10 5-10 6-2 5-10 5-8 6-0 6-6 6-0
Hometown Watertown, Conn. York, England London, England Waterbury, Conn. Beacon Falls, Conn.
Last School Holy Cross High School Easingwold Secondary St. Clement Danes School W.F. Kaynor Tech Woodland High School
Major Sport Management Sport Management Business Management Sport Management Accounting International Business Finance Accounting
Dusseldorf, Germany Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker Copenhagen, Denmark
Solrod Gymnasium
Cardif, Wales
Ysgol Gyjun Gymraeg Plasmawr
Head Coach: Pete Stevens Assistant Coach: Don Samatulski Strength and Fitness Coach: Jason DeSombre TOURNAMENT SCORECARDS Season Cumulative Stats Fall 2011
St. Rose R1 St. Rose R2 Total Finish Rutgers R1Rutgers R2Rutgers R3 Total Finish N. Eng. R1 N. Eng. R2
Total Finish Dowling R1Dowling R2 Total Finish NSU R1 NSU R2 NSU R3
Total Finish
Thomas Rees
77
72
149
5
77
70
78
225 t25
73
77
150
t4
72
72
144 4th
82
80
77
239
t65
Ross Earnshaw
80
76
156 t15
77
72
75
224 t21
76
79
155
t18
77
73
150 t12
80
80
75
235
t54
Sebastian Noesgaard
76
78
154 t11
75
77
75
227 t34
74
76
150
t4
72
75
147
78
78
80
236
t57
Marchant de Villiers
75
77
152 t8
79
80
75
234 t51
77
78
155
t18
76
80
156 t26
Joe Massicotte
86
83
169 45
78
75
77
230 t41
76
79
155
t18
75
77
152 t17
77
83
75
235
t54
77
82
80
239
t65
t8
Anthony Netto
Spring 2012
I. Creek R1 I. Creek R2 Total Finish S. Swing
Finish Barton R1 Barton R2 Total Finish Carolina R1Carolina R2 Total
Finish
CACC R1 CACC R2 Total Finish NCAA R1 NCAA R2 NCAA R3 Total Finish
Thomas Rees
76
75
151 t24
77
t3
70
76 146
t9
78
79
157
t59
77
76 153
4
76
75
80
231 t12
Ross Earnshaw
75
74
149 t17
77
t3
75
73 148
t21
69
76
145
t21
79
76 155
t7
77
77
81
235 t24
Anthony Netto
72
80
152 t27
78
6
78
75 153
t40
70
68
138
t3
79
77 156
t8
85
80
77
242 t57
Sebastian Noesgaard
82
74
156 39
83
t17
81
84 165
t72
76
76
152
t43
80
83 163 t13
78
80
78
236 t27
85
t25
87
85 172
86 75
78
153
t48
97
90 187 t48
90
80
79
249 t80
Jay Gerrick Anthony McNamara Marchant de Villiers
88
84
172 59
77
t3
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