Lumberjacks Head To McKinney Seeking 2017 Southland Conference Championship
4/23/2017 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
2017 Southland Conference Championship
Monday, April 24 – Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Stonebridge Ranch Country Club | McKinney, Texas
Live Scoring: Golfstat.com
Opening Tee
Stephen F. Austin gets set to close out the 2016-17 season at the 2017 Southland Conference Championship, being held Monday, April 24th through Wednesday, April 26th at Stonebridge Country Club in McKinney, Texas.
Tournament Information
The 2017 Southland Conference Championship will be held at the Dye Course at Stonebridge Ranch Country Club, a par-72, 7,346-yard course. The 54-hole event will be played out over the course of three days, playing 18 holes per day, getting underway with a 7:30 a.m. tee time from hole one all three days. Live scoring of the event will be available at GolfStat.com.
Tournament Seeding
The 10 teams that compete in men’s golf will all be present at this week’s event with the tournament champion earning an automatic NCAA regional bid. Based off the latest GolfStat rankings, as well as head-to-head matchups throughout the year, SFA enters the tournament as the number two overall seed, trailing only reigning champion McNeese. Central Arkansas (No. 3), Southeastern Louisiana (No. 4) and Sam Houston State (No. 5) join the Cowboys and Lumberjacks among the top-five with Houston Baptist, Nicholls, New Orleans, Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word comprising seeds six through 10.
Lumberjack Lineup
Heading into the final tournament of the regular season, head coach Trey Schroeder will utilize the same lineup as at the Jim West Intercollegiate, comprised of two seniors, a junior, a sophomore and a freshman.
| Golfer | Year | Average | Par - | 10/20 |
| Major Monzingo | Senior | 72.82 | 12 | 3/4 |
| Angelo Leyvani | Sophomore | 73.36 | 10 | 3/3 |
| Blake Stock | Junior | 74.00 | 7 | 3/1 |
| Zach Sudinsky | Freshman | 74.84 | 6 | 1/2 |
| Cory Brown | Senior | 74.52 | 5 | 3/0 |
Lumberjacks at SLC Championship
SFA makes a return trip to McKinney looking to build on last season’s fifth-place showing at the Southland Conference Championships. This week’s trip marks the 30th anniversary of the Lumberjacks making their initial trip to the Southland Championships as SFA has placed in the top-10 in each of its previous 29 trips. The ‘Jacks have finished among the top-five 17 times, including capturing the conference title in 1988, 1991 and 1999 while registering runner-up finishes in 1990 and 1993.
Last Time Out
SFA battled a 12-team field, as well as Mother Nature, finishing seventh at the Jim West Intercollegiate in Bastrop on April 11th. The Lumberjacks carded a 4-over 580 through the first two rounds and sat just four strokes out of third place but were unable to make their run over the final 18 holes as rain and lightning canceled the final round. The shortened tournament did give sophomore Angelo Leyvani a runner-up finish following his 5-under 139 over the first two rounds while senior Major Monzingo tied for 17th with a 1-over 145.
Watching the Record Book
Heading into this week’s SLC Championship, a number of marks in the Lumberjack record book are up for grabs. Senior Major Monzingo currently boasts a 72.82 scoring average in 2016-17, which ranks second all-time in program history and is within striking distance of Mitchell McLeroy’s program-best 72.65 average in 2011-12. Sophomore Angelo Leyani’s 73.36 average on the year also ranks among the top-10, sitting seventh currently, while Monzingo’s 12 par-or-better rounds and Leyvani’s 10 rank tied for fifth and 10th all-time, respectively.
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