Falcons Fly West for the 2015 William H. Tucker Intercollegiate

Friday, September 25

Albuquerque, N.M.

All Day

Bowling Green State University

William H. Tucker Intercollegiate

September 24, 2015 | Men's Golf

By: by Kevin Davis, Assistant Director for Athletic Communications

Live scoring at www.Golfstat.com

Bowling Green, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University men's golf team will fly west this week to compete in the highly competitive 2015 William H. Tucker Intercollegiate hosted by the University of New Mexico at the UNM South Championship Golf Course in Albuquerque, N.M. on Sept. 25-26.

The Falcons, who are playing in this event for the first time, will be part of a 16-team tournament field that includes two Pac 12 teams (Arizona and Colorado), two Big 12 foes (TCU and Texas Tech), two Conference USA squads (Louisiana Tech and UTEP), six Mountain West programs (Colorado State, New Mexico, Nevada, San Diego State, UNLV and Wyoming), as well Denver, New Mexico State and San Diego.

A number of the participating teams finished last year ranked in the top-50 by Golfstat in Texas Tech (No. 12), TCU (No. 25), New Mexico (No. 26), San Diego State (No. 27), UNLV (No. 33) and Colorado (No. 47).

"We're excited to be in what's one of the best college events in the country and are happy with the way we are playing right now," stated head coach Kevin Farrell. "We are ready to compete against a lot of great teams this week."

Held at the UNM South Championship Golf Course for the 48th time, the event will consist of two days of play at the par 72, 7,556-yards golf course. Each day of play is set to begin at 8:00 a.m. MT for both Friday and Saturday, with the tournament's format being 54 holes to completion with 36 being played on Friday.

Coach Farrell will send out the same Falcon lineup as he did for the season opening event at the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational in which BGSU took second-place overall with a the second-lowest 54-hole tournament score in the program's history at 835, -17 under par.

Junior Jose Narro, who is coming off a third-place individual finish at the Marshall Invitational, will be in the top spot for the Falcons once again this week. Narro led the Falcons with a 54-hole score of 202, -11 under par, two weeks ago at the Marshall Invite with his 54-hole score being the lowest by an individual in the program's history. He posted three sub-par rounds of 68, 66, and 67 over the two days of play, finishing the tournament with a team-high 13 birdies and 39 pars over the three rounds. The Tampico, Mexico native led the entire tournament field with a par 4 scoring average of 3.73, -6 under par, overall.

Playing in just his second-ever intercollegiate tournament, freshman Pablo Heredia Iglesias will tee-off for the Falcons at No. 2 in the lineup. Last time out, in his first-ever intercollegiate tournament, Iglesias finished with a final round 72, +1. He recorded rounds of 74, 71 and 72 to finish in a tie for 49th-place overall with a 54-hole score of 217, +4, turning in eight birdies and 35 pars.

BGSU's Brett Rinker was consistent throughout his two days of play at the Marshall Invitational on Sept. 14-15, as the junior shot back-to-back rounds of 72, +1, on day one, before recording a final round of 69, -2 under par, over the final round of play. He placed in a tie for 23rd-place overall with a three round combined score of 213, even par, totaling eight pars and 38 pars overall for the tournament.

Coming off career-low 54-hole scores sophomores Cameron Michalak and Mitchell Kontak will wrap up the Falcon lineup at the four and five spots. Michalak is coming of a career-low 18-hole score of 65, -6 under par, over his final round of play at the Marshall Invitational to finish with a 54-hole score of 215, +2. Kontak will look to continue his great start to the fall season as he carded a new career-low round 68, -3 under par, to go with rounds of 70 and 72, and finish with a 54-hole score of 210, -3 under par, last time out.

Live scoring for all three rounds of play will be available at www.Golfstat.com. (Click Here)

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