Huskies Head to Penn State this Weekend
STORRS, Conn. – The UConn men's golf team heads to Penn State this weekend to take part in the 47th Annual Rutherford Intercollegiate tournament in what will be their final competitive tune-up ahead of the BIG EAST Championship in two weeks.
The three round event will take place Saturday and Sunday, April 13 and 14, at the par 71, 7,171 yard Penn State Blue Course. The tournament will get underway on Saturday morning at 7:30 am and will feature 36 holes on day one and the final 18 on Sunday.
The Huskies will hit the course against the likes of the host Nittany Lions as well as Binghamton, Colgate, Delaware, Eastern Michigan, FGCU, George Mason, Georgetown, Rhode Island, St. Bonaventure, Temple, Towson, and Valparaiso.
UConn's lineup this weekend will feature junior Ray Dennehy (Princeton, Mass.) at the top and freshmen Alex Heard (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Bradley Sawka (Ellington, Conn.), and seniors Tommy Dallahan (Simsbury, Conn.) and Jimmy Paradise (Tampa, Fla.) rounding out their top-five. Sophomore Connor Goode (Glastonbury, Conn.) will compete as an individual.
The Huskies are coming off a fifth-place finish at the weather shortened Golfweek/AGT Intercollegiate, finishing the two-round event shooting even par as a team (293-283=576). Dallahan and Paradise led the UConn contingent both finishing inside the top-15. Paradise shot 141 over 36-holes to tie for 10th overall, his best tournament finish of the spring. He tied for the event lead with 11 total birdies.
Dallahan tied for 15th at the event, shooting 143 over two days, to mark his team-leading fourth top-20 finish this season. His 68 during round two marked his 11th round under par this season.
The Huskies finished eighth at last season's Penn State tournament and have participated in the last four iterations of the tournament.
Following this weekend's tournament the Huskies will begin final preparations for the 2024 BIG EAST Championship that will be held at Riverton Pointe Golf & Country Club in Hardeeville, S.C. on April 27 through 29.
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