Men's Golf Hosts Lehigh in Final Tuneup Before Patriot League Championship

Saturday, April 24

Lewisburg, Pa. (Bucknell GC)

12 p.m.

Bucknell University

Lehigh

Photo by: Marc Hagemeier

Men's Golf Hosts Lehigh in Final Tuneup Before Patriot League Championship

4/23/2021 4:04:00 PM | Men's Golf

Setting The Scene
What: Bucknell vs. Lehigh, dual match with stroke play format (play-6, count-4)
When: Saturday, Apr. 23 (tee times starting at 12 p.m.)
Where: Par-70, 6,224-yard Bucknell Golf Club, Lewisburg, Pa.

About the Bison

Bucknell and Lehigh will square off in a dual match on Saturday in Lewisburg to get in one last competitive round before next week's Patriot League Championship.
Both teams have had good spring seasons thus far. The Bison have four top-three finishes in five events, including a win at the Battle at Rum Pointe on March 27-28. Lehigh won the Abarta Coca-Cola Collegiate Invitational, hosted by Lafayette, last weekend, and then the Mountain Hawks defeated the arch-rival Leopards in a Ryder Cup-style dual match on Tuesday.
In its first four events this spring, Bucknell finished 2nd-1st-T2nd-3rd. In addition to the win at Rum Pointe, the Bison took second at the Carpetbagger Classic and the Rolling Green Intercollegiate, and third at the Wildcat Invitational.
Last week, Bucknell was a late entry into Penn State's Rutherford Intercollegiate. The Bison finished 12th as a team, with Jackson Bussell leading the way with a T-16th finish after rounds of 71-74-72.
Bussell has an individual win for Bucknell this spring. He won in a playoff at the Battle at Rum Pointe. One week earlier, Jack Gardner was tied after 36 holes but lost in a playoff at the Carpetbagger.
Bussell owns the team's low scoring average this spring at 73.3. Blake Wisdom (74.0), Chris Tanabe (74.3) and Gardner (74.4) are close behind.
Saturday's match with Lehigh will utilize a play-6, count-4 format to emulate the Patriot League Championship. Bucknell's six-man lineup will feature Bussell, Wisdom, Tanabe, Gardner, Jason Lohwater and Josh Holtschlag. Max Orwicz and Dylan Ford will tee it up as individuals.