Austin Paces Spiders On Day 1 At The Ocean Course

Monday, October 17

The Ocean Course (Kiawah Island, S.C.)

All Day

University of Richmond

The Invitational

10/18/2011 | Men's Golf

By: Richmond Athletics

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- The first two rounds are in the books at the 2011 Invitational at The Ocean Course in Kiawah Island, S.C. and the Richmond men's golf team is ninth.

Led by impressive rounds from junior Nick Austin and senior Brad Miller, the Spiders posted a 300 in Round 1, followed that with a 295 in Round 2 and are just nine strokes back of the top five with 18 holes to play.

Florida paced the field, firing a nine-under 567 as a team, followed by UAB (577), Maryland (580), South Florida (581) and the host College of Charleston (584) in the top five of the competitive 12-team field.

"Nick and Brad played well and both left a number of shots out there," said head coach Adam Decker. "This is a very tough golf course and we have a good opportunity tomorrow to move up the leaderboard."

Austin carded a one-under 71 in Monday's first round to go with a 73 in the second round and the junior from nearby James River High is T-9th with his 36-hole total of 144.

Miller put a 73 on the board Monday morning and followed with a 75 in afternoon and his 148 is T-22nd.

Freshman Danny Pizetoski bounced back from an 80 Monday morning with a one-over 73 in the second round and is T-45th (153).

Also for Richmond, junior Daniel Walker (76-79=155) and sophomore Jack Wilkes (81-74=155) are each T-53rd, while junior Jack Lessing is T-61st (80-78=158).

Florida's Tyler McCumber (-7) takes a two-stroke lead over UAB's Sam Love into Tuesday's final round, which is underway Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. and live scoring is available.