SUFFERN, N.Y. -- A day after learning they would be in the NCAA Regional for the 15th time in program history and hours after Head Coach Michael Erickson was named Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year with two CACC All-Conference Team players in graduate student Joe Ensign and freshman Luis Reina, Post University Men's Golf continued to build its momentum on Monday out on the links.

After the first of two rounds at the Dominican (N.Y.) Spring Invitational, the Eagles are on top of the four-team pack at nine-over-par ahead of Adelphi University, which sits four strokes back at 13-over-par. 

THE BASICS 
 
Team Results – 1st Out of 4 Teams (+9, 297)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED 
At the top of the pack was Adelphi's Francis Lanuza, but he only holds a two-stroke lead on both Reina and junior Braden Shea, who both sit at one-over-par. In this event, Reina is playing as an independent along with junior Nathan Leonard, who closed in a tie for 13th at seven-over-par.

As for the other four Eagles whose scores counted towards the team total, three of them finished back-to-back-to-back in the standings. Following up Shea were both freshman Phillip Granum and Gavin Giroux at two-over-par in a tie for fourth. Granum is coming off a tie for first place in the St. Thomas Aquinas Spring Invitational last week for Post.

As for the final two players in the lineup for the Eagles, junior Flo Schimek was tied for sixth at four-over-par, while Ensign followed up close behind him in a tie for ninth at five-over-par in the four-team event.