Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell University
NCAA Regionals
Second-Round Play Suspended at NCAA Regional
5/15/2009 8:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
May 15, 2009
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- Three Bucknell golfers were still on the course as second-round play was suspended due to weather on Friday at the NCAA Central Regional at The Club at Olde Stone. Play was halted for about two hours early in the afternoon, then again for good at 4:10 p.m. local time. The second round will resume at 7:30 a.m. CT on Saturday, followed by the third and final round.
Bucknell remains in 14th place, three shots behind Austin Peay. Top-seeded Washington is 4-under par and had an eight-shot lead on UCLA when play was stopped. Five teams are bunched just four shots apart from third through sixth place.
For Bucknell, junior Andrew Cohen (Mamaroneck, N.Y./Mamaroneck) was having a strong second round. He was 4-over through 17 holes and will have to finished the ninth hole (the Bison began on No. 10) on Ssaturday morning. Cohen made two birdies and nothing worse than bogey. Cohen is +10 for the tournament after shooting 78 in Thursday's opening round.
Sophomore Ben Mattingly (Fishers, Ind./Park Tudor) had just made a birdie on the par-3 eighth hole when play was halted. Mattingly is 7-over on the day. Junior Brian Bartow (Rye, N.Y./Rye Neck) led the team with a 77 in the first round, but he ran into a tough stretch in round two. Bartow parred his first four holes of the day, then played the next nine holes in 11-over par. He bounced back with a birdie on No. 5 followed by two pars, and he will have two holes to finish on Saturday.
Junior Ryan Schneiter (Lebanon, Pa./Cedar Crest) and sophomore Andrew Wallisch (Pittsburgh, Pa./Fox Chapel) both finished their rounds, and both improved on their first-round scores. Schneiter was five shots better, going from 86 to 81. He made his first two birdies of the tournament on holes 2 and 11. Wallisch shot 83, one better than his opening 18.
Nick Taylor of Washington still has the individual lead at 5-under, two better than Matt Hill of North Carolina State.
