WESTLAKE, Ohio - The University of Dayton men's golf team is in third place after two rounds of play at the Tom Tontimonia Invitational hosted by Cleveland State. The Flyers posted a team score of 298-283=581 (+13), led by junior Domenic Maricocchi who is in 10th place in individual standings with his score of 75-68=143 (+1).

The two-day event is being held at Lakewood Country Club and the course is being played at par 71 and 7,104 yards. Oakland is leading the field with a team score of 292-277=569 (+1) and the Grizzlies' Thomas Giroux (71-68=139) and Youngstown State's Kevin Scherr (70-69=139) are tied at three-under-par in first place.

DAYTON PARTICIPANTS
10  Domenic Maricocchi  75-68=143 (+1)
t11 Ryan Clements  75-69=144 (+2)
t14 Jake Gilkison  71-74=145 (+3)
t33 Hayden Zimmerer  77-72=149 (+7)
t70 Blake Solomon  79-80=159 (+17)
t33 Ryan Flick (IND)  73-76=149 (+7)
t71 Andrew Hinkebein (IND)  82-78=160 (+18)

KEY STATS
• 7 - Maricocchi carded seven birdies during today's second round of play as he equaled his season-low score of 68
• 69 - Clements fired a career-low round of 69 on the second 18, including three birdies
• 16 - as a team, the Flyers carded 16 birdies in the second round of play

COACH'S QUOTE
"We didn't get off to the start we wanted and put ourselves in a pretty big hole after round one," commented head coach Gip Hoagland Monday evening. "We fought hard during round two and got ourselves back into it. We needed to finish a little better coming down the stretch to give ourselves a better chance going into tomorrow. We have 18 holes to play tomorrow and we are going to give it our best and see what happens."

UP NEXT
Dayton will wrap up play at the Tom Tontimonia Invitational Tuesday with a 9:15 a.m. shotgun start. You can follow the action via BirdieFire.com.