Contact: Alan Ashby

Oct. 5, 2004

NEW KENT, Va. - Cleveland State posted a final round 316 to remain in seventh place at the William & Mary Joe Agee Invitational. Freshman Doug Barber (Willoughby, Ohio/Willoughby South) finished tied for 16th after carding three rounds in the 70s. Rutgers bested the 17-team field with a three round total of 871 at the 6,967-yard, par 72 Royal New Kent Golf Club.

"I can't say enough about how consistently Doug played this week," CSU head coach Tom Porten said. "Even when the wind picked up today, he hung in there and turned in a solid round. As a team, we were just a couple of shots away from finishing in the top five for the third straight week."

Sophomores Mike Rutgers (Kingsville, Ontario/Cardinal Carter) and Ben Grandy (Southgate, Mich./Gabriel Richard) tied for 17th at 227.

Towson's Alex Brueggemann held on to the lead with a 75, completing his wire-to-wire stay at the top of the leaderboard following an opening-round 67. His two-under, 214 was one shot better than William & Mary's Tim Pemberton and Towson's Jeff Castle.

Host William & Mary finished six strokes back of Rutgers, while Towson was in third at 881.

Cleveland State is in action again on Oct. 11-12 when the Vikings travel to the Greg Palmer Classic in Morehead, Ky.

Team Scores:
1. Rutgers 286-291-294--871
2. William & Mary 291-289-297--877
3. Towson 290-290-301--881
4. Boston College 294-296-308--898
5. Georgetown 292-298-311--901
6. St. Francis (Pa.) 296-298-312--906
7. Cleveland State 298-299-316--913
8. St. Joseph's 303-303-310--916
9. Loyola (Md.) 305-302-313--920
10. Liberty 302-308-312--922
Temple 306-304-312--922
Lehigh 301-302-319--922
13. Old Dominion 305-297-321--923
14. Fordham 309-299-320--928
15. James Madison 314-302-318--934
Delaware 310-308-316--934
17. Bucknell 316-312-325--953

CSU Individual Scores:
T16. Doug Barber 74-72-78--224
T25. Mike Rutgers 74-73-80--227
T25. Ben Grandy 75-75-77--227
T61. Joe Ribelli 75-79-81--235
82. Bill Schaefer 76-79-89--244