COMPLETE RESULTS

Hershey, Pa. (Apr. 26, 2014) - Senior Bobby Ranken (Mount Holly, N.J./Rancocas Valley) posted a 7-over 78 to lead Alvernia University to a team total 330 and a tie for third place out of 10 teams after Day One of the Commonwealth Conference Men's Golf Championships at Hershey Country Club.

The Crusaders--currently tied with Albright College--trail first-round leader Messiah College by 10 shots heading into day two.  Sunday's tee times begin at 8:00 a.m.  The conference winner will earn the automatic qualifier into the NCAA Championships hosted in two weeks at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Ranken enters Sunday's round tied for fourth place individually.  Only five players in the conference fired rounds under 80 on Saturday with high winds and slick greens frustrating the field.

Ranken started the day on the par 4 10th and opened with three straight pars.  He followed with bogies at 13, 14, and 15, parred 16 and 17 before dropping a shot at the par 4 18th.  He missed a 5-footer for birdie at 1 then drained a 12-footer at 2 for his only birdie of the day.  He made bogies at 3, 5, and 8 and chunked a first chip into 9 setting up a more difficult up-and-down, which he negotiated to post 78.

Sophomore Zach Arsenault (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) got off to a rough start making triple on 10, but rebounded to play the next eight holes in just 3-over including a birdie at the difficult par 4 15th.  He bogied four of the first five holes on the front nine before making pars on three of the last four to shoot 82.

Chris Van Natta (Easton, Pa./Bethlehem Catholic) started out on the bogey train making bogey on seven of the first eight holes.  He doubled the par 4 12th, but nearly holed out from the fairway on 18 for eagle.  He settled for the tap-in birdie then parred five of the first seven on the front before a bogey-bogey finish put him at 84.

Sophomore Brett Fernandes (Marlton, N.J./Cherokee) shot 5-over 40 on the back nine then after bogies at 1 and 2 made two great pars at 3 and 4 before playing the last five holes in 8-over to post 86.

The Crusaders are in the middle of three waves tomorrow of the front nine with Lebanon Valley (335) and Elizabethtown (351).
 

Alvernia University	330	+42	t-3rd
Bobby Ranken	78	+6	t-4th
Zach Arsenault	82	+10	t-9th
Chris Van Natta	84	+12	t-16th
Brett Fernandes	86	+14	t-24th
RJ Cummings	98	+26	43rd