WATERBURY, Conn. -- In a rare split-squad week of competition, Post University Men's Golf sent a squad of players to both the AIC Yellow Jackets Spring Invitational and the Penmen Spring Invitational to start off the week, as both teams currently sit in second place after the first of two rounds in their respective events on Monday. 

THE BASICS 
 
Team Results (SNHU) – 2nd Out of 8 Teams (+11, 291)

Team Results (AIC) - 2nd Out of 3 Teams (+28, 316)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED 
While the Eagles currently sit just three strokes off the pace of Assumption University's A Team at 11-over-par, graduate student Joe Ensign turned in a solid first round as he tied for third place with two other golfers in Chris Stillwell and Brady Warren of the Greyhounds and Saint Anselm College at even with par. Carlos Ferreira from Felician University and Jack Kantowski of Bentley University both lead the way in the event at one-under-par, while several golfers sit just two strokes back of them.

One of those golfers would be junior Braden Shea, as he turned in a one-over-par round to finish in a four-way tie for sixth, while freshmen Phillip Granum and Gavin Giroux each currently sit tied for 21st with a five-over-par score in the first round. Just behind them in a tie for 25th was freshman Luis Reina at six-over-par to round out the five Eagles competing in the event, while five more competed at the AIC event in Massachusetts.
  While the Massachusetts event only featured two different Yellow Jacket teams in addition to Post, the Eagles would finish the first round in second, one stroke behind AIC's A team and 10 strokes ahead of their B team. Aryan Sharma and Max Shepardson from AIC's A team are currently tied for the lead in the event with freshman Dominic Giamei from Post at four-over-par, while junior Flo Schimek and sophomore Jack O'Brien sit a stroke apart in fourth and fifth place at four-over-par and five-over-par, respectively.

Senior Eric Forte tied for 12th place at 13-over-par, just ahead of senior Nathan Leonard's 14th-place finish at 14-over-par, while freshman Edward Grinvalsky golfed as an independent player, finishing in 17th at 20-over-par. Grinvalsky would match his first round total in round two at 20-over-par, while the Post crew moved to three strokes back of AIC at 60-over-par at the end of day one. Schimek would end up leading the Eagles at 11-over-par after shooting six-over in the second round to finish in third, while Giamei slipped back to a fourth-place tie at 13-over-par.

Performing the best of any Post player in the second round was Leonard at four-over-par, capping off an 18-over-par performance in seventh, while O'Brien closed with a 13-over-par round in a tie for eighth at 19-over-par, followed by Forte in 13th at 27-over-par overall.