HAMDEN, Conn. - Emmanuel men's golf posted its best-ever finish at the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championship this week, coming in third place in the two-day event hosted at New Haven Country Club. Team scores of 321 in round one, followed by 324 in Wednesday's final round, totaled a two-day mark of 645, as Emmanuel finished its fall campaign with a third place spot.
Entering the day in second place and just six shots off the lead, the Saints made a charge through the middle of the round, trailing by as few as two with the back nine looming. The Saints top finisher was junior
Ryan Brunet, who carded rounds of 78 and 80, on his way to an 18-over tournament, good for sixth place.Just one shot back was first-year
Sean Fenton, as his rounds of 76 and 83 placed him in seventh for the GNAC Championship. Sophomore
Andrew Lavoie made a comeback in the final round, recovering from his first round 83 to shoot 79 this morning, good for a tie for ninth.
With Brunet, Fenton, and Lavoie finishing inside the top 10, the trio of Saints earned All-Conference Second Team honors, as they join
Ian Reynolds ('25) as the only Saints golfers in program history to be named to the All-Conference team following the GNAC Championship.
First-year
Jack Ouellette (T17) and senior
Diego Serra (21st) rounded out the Saints lineup with two-day totals of 166 and 170, respectively.
In terms of scoring, the two-day event is Emmanuel's third-lowest GNAC Championship showing in program history, trailing the 2014 program (642) and the 2016 program (643). Among all two-day tournaments in team history, it's the fourth-lowest the Saints have ever shot, as the 2012 USM Fall Classic (636) remains the lowest two-day total ever.
As for the seven, 18-hole rounds the Saints played this fall, their 306 team score at the Rhode Island College Fall Invitational set a new program record for lowest team total. Their remaining team scores of 308, 315, 321, 323, 324, and 330 all sit inside the top 30 lowest scores ever shot by the program, which includes 153 total rounds over 16 seasons. The team's scoring average of 318.1 currently stands as the best scoring average in team history, besting the previous record by over a dozen shots.
The Saints Fall season has come to a close with the GNAC Championship. The men's golf program will return for the Spring portion of its schedule in April 2026.
