Orlando, Fla. – The Flyers had an up and down day on the course. After the first round, the team sits in 6^th place overall and only 8 strokes behind the leader. Blake Solomon led the way for the Flyers with a 73 (+1) on the day. He is currently tied for fourth overall. The team tallied a total of 11 birdies on the day.
 
Davidson is currently in the lead with a team score of 297 (+9). Jake Long from Davidson is currently leading the field with a score of 68 (-4).
 
The Course
Located in beautiful Orlando, the Grand Cyprus Golf Club was designed by the great Jack Nicklaus. Opened in 1984, this challenging, yet beautiful course offers the golfers multiple challenges along its paths. In 2007, Jack Nicklaus actually came back and re-designed multiple holes to offer new, unique challenges.
 
The fairways and tees are made of 419 Bermuda grass while the greens are made of tif dwarf grass. This par 72 course is a total of 7024 yards.

Coach's Comments
"At the end of the day, we didn't have our A game today" said Head Coach Gip Hoagland. "Fortunately, we are only 8 shots back with 36 holes to play. We have a challenge in front of us and I'm confident my guys will accept it. I'm very happy with Blake's performance. He played great and showed a lot of poise in his first A10 championship. I'm looking forward to tomorrow!!!" 

DAYTON PARTICIPANTS
T23 Domenic Maricocchi            77 (+5)
T23 Jake Gilkison                       77 (+5)
T4   Blake Solomon                    73 (+1)
T45 Connor Quigley                   82 (+10)
T29 Ryan Clements                   78 (+6)


UP NEXT
The Flyers are back in action tomorrow morning in Orlando for Round 2 of the Atlantic 10 Championship. The scores will be on www.golfstat.com