Spiders Picked Third in A-10 Preseason Golf Poll

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. -- The Richmond Spiders men's golf team was picked third in the Atlantic 10's Preseason Golf Pool, the conference announced Thursday.

Richmond, also picked third in last year's preseason poll, is coming off a fifth-place finish at the 2018 A-10 Golf Championship. The Spiders have finished in the top five at the conference championship in each of coach Adam Decker's 13 seasons with the Spiders.

Defending champion Davidson finished atop the preseason poll, receiving nine of 11 first-place votes and 118 total points. VCU came in second with 104 points and the other two first-place votes. Richmond was third with 100 points.

The Spiders won their only A-10 title in 2017, when current juniors Zack Justice and Andrew Sciarretta paced Richmond to an 11-stroke victory by firing 54 hole scores of 209 (-7), tied for second on the individual leaderboard.

In addition to Justice and Sciaretta, this year's team features senior Ben Wanichek, who recorded a pair of top-10 finishes in three starts this fall, and sophomore Michael Baker, who registered the first two top-20 finishes of his career during the fall campaign.

Freshman Michael Childress, who teamed with Baker for three years at Cannon School in Concord, N.C., will also play a big part for the Spiders. He finished tied for 13^th at this month's Mobile Intercollegiate, the first of Richmond's five tournaments scheduled for this spring.

The 2019 A-10 Golf Championships will be held April 26-28 at Grand Cypress in Orlando, Fla.

2019 A-10 Golf Preseason Poll
1. Davidson 118 (9)
2. VCU 104 (2)
3. Richmond 100
4. Dayton 89
5. George Mason 63
6. Rhode Island 60
6. GW 60
8. St. Bonaventure 56
9. Saint Joseph's 35
10. Fordham 23
11. La Salle 17

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