SPRINGFIELD, Pa.—All six golfers in the Villanova lineup carded scores of 76 or better and junior Noah Peck (Hunt Valley, Md.) was the individual runner-up with a round of 69 (-1) at the Rolling Green Intercollegiate on Saturday afternoon. There were 12 schools competing in the tournament hosted locally by Navy at Rolling Green Golf Club in Springfield. The event consisted of one round with a shotgun start; teams competed with six golfers and counted the four best scores.
 
Peck carded his first round below par this season with his score of 69 on the par-70 course which measures 6,941 yards from the championship tees. He came in second in the field of 76 golfers and tallied his first career top-five finish in tournament play. Peck and Erik Stevens of Monmouth were the only golfers to shoot below par for the day, with Stevens producing a round of 68 (-2) to win individual medalist honors. Since joining the Wildcats varsity squad last season, Peck has recorded five rounds with par or better scores.
 
Villanova had a team score of 293 (+13) and tied for a fourth place finish in a competitive round between the competing teams. Rhode Island finished first with a score of 285 (+5) and narrowly came in ahead of Bucknell and Monmouth (287) as well as the Wildcats, Lafayette and Saint Joseph's who all tied for fourth place. Villanova came in two strokes ahead of BIG EAST foe Georgetown in the first common tournament the teams have played in this year.
 
Freshman Peter Weaver (Frontenac, Mo.) and graduate student Ambrose Abbracciamento (Newtown, Pa.) each carded a 74 (+2) on the day to tie for second in the Wildcats lineup and 25^th overall. The trio of sophomore Matt Minerva (Elmsford, N.Y.), senior Reb Banas (Winnetka, Ill.) and senior Max Siegfried (Villanova, Pa.) all shot 76 (+4) and tied for a 38^th place finish in the top half of the individual leaderboard.
 
Villanova has registered a team score below 300 in four of its eight rounds played this season, including three consecutive round dating back to the final 18 holes of the Donald Ross Collegiate Classic on March 9. The team shot 295 in the third and final round at that event, posted a season-best score of 288 in the LuLu Spring Invite last weekend and followed that up with today's 293 round.
 
Saturday's event kicked off a busy stretch of local tournaments for the Wildcats, who will again be in action next Saturday when they compete in the newly announced Temple Spring Invite at The 1912 Club in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. Like this week's tournament, the Temple event will also be a one-round format at the par-70, 6,987-yard course.