DAYTON - The University of Dayton men's golf team will open the spring portion of its 2019-20 schedule Monday at the 2020 Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play event. The two-day tournament is being hosted by Ball State at Lake Jovita Country Club in Dade City, Florida, Feb. 10-11. Xavier will be Dayton's first match play opponent.

Both days of competition will have an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start and all rounds will be played on the par 72, 7,153 yard South Course. Live scoring updates will be available via GolfStat.com by CLICKING HERE.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The two-day event will consist of 54 holes of match play competition. Teams are seeded 1 through 8 based upon Golfstat rankings and then placed into a bracket. All teams are guaranteed three matches with losing teams from the first and second rounds continuing to compete in a consolation bracket. Each team match will consist of six individual matches. Lineup order for each team is based upon individual player Golfweek rankings, with the top-rated player in the No. 1 position and so on.

TEAMS PARTICIPATING
1. Ball State
2. Bowling Green
3. Dayton
4. Eastern Michigan
5. Loyola Chicago
6. Xavier
7. Drake
8. DePaul

DAYTON PARTICIPANTS
Domenic Maricocchi
Kyle Schmidt
Connor Quigley
Blake Solomon
Frankie Morgan
Hayden Zimmerer