Pirates Defeat DePaul; Edged by UConn on Monday

Monday, February 1

Clearwater, Fla. / Pelican Golf Club

8:00 AM

Seton Hall University

DePaul

2/1/2021 5:30:00 PM | Men's Golf

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BELLEAIR, FLA. – Senior Alex McAuley (Douglas, Isle of Man) and junior Deven Ramachandran (San Rafael, Calif.) each won both of their matches on Monday as the Seton Hall men's golf team split a pair of contests against BIG EAST competition. The Pirates defeated DePaul, 5-0-1, but fell to Connecticut, 3-2-1, at Pelican Golf Club to open the 2021 spring season.

PIRATES EXERCISE BLUE DEMONS, 5-0-1
Seton Hall throttled DePaul in the opening match on Monday, defeating the Blue Demons, 5-0-1. Senior Andres Acevedo (San Antonio, Texas) easily defeated DePaul's top golfer, Nik Gatmaytan, 7 & 6. Acevedo never lost a hole in a match that ended after 12.

Freshman Brody Hanley (Lantana, Texas) had the second-most impressive opening match, defeating DePaul's Conor Glennon, 5 & 4, in the No. 4 spot. Hanley won the first two holes and never trailed. In the No. 2 match, senior Gregor Tait (Martlesham Heath, England) soundly downed DePaul's Noah Kolar, 4 & 3. Tied after eight holes, Tait won holes 9, 12, 13 and 14 to pick up the victory.

Ramachandran took down DePaul's Artemiy Yalovenko, 2 & 1, at the No. 3 spot. Ahead by one hole, Ramachandran won holes 11 and 12 to take a three-hole lead and cruised to the two-hole victory. McAuley downed DePaul's Grant Boyson, 3 & 1, in the No. 5 spot. McAuley never trailed, breaking a tie in the second hole and maintaining the advantage throughout the match before stamping his victory with wins on holes 16 and 17.

Junior Peter Tyler Po (Nasipit Cebu City, Philippines) rounded out the Pirates' scoring with a tie against DePaul's Perry Chong in the No. 6 spot. Po trailed by two holes with two to play, but rallied for the tie with victories on holes 17 and 18.

HUSKIES EDGE HALL, 3-2-1
The Pirates were edged by Connecticut in the afternoon match, 3-2-1. Ramachandran ran his match play record to 2-0 on Monday with a convincing 5 & 4 victory over UConn's Rodrigo Sanchez in the No. 3 spot. The Pirate junior led wire-to-wire, winning the first hole and cruising to the victory in just 13 holes played.

McAuley also won his second match of the day with a sound defeat of UConn's Finn Boynton, 6 & 5. After tying the first two holes, the 2020 graduate won the third and then proceeded to win five of the next six holes.

Hanley went 18 holes with Connecticut's Jimmy Paradise, but the match ended in a tie. Hanley led for much of the afternoon, and led by three holes after 15, but Paradise won the final three holes to force the stalemate in the No. 4 spot.

Acevedo was edged by UConn's Jared Nelson, 1 UP, in the match that pitted the No. 1 golfers from each program. Trailing by one hole through 16, Acevedo tied the match on the second-to-last hole of the day, but was bested by Nelson on 18 for the one-hole loss. Tait fell to UConn's Caleb Manuel, 2 & 1, in the No. 2 spot. After trailing by as many as three holes on the back nine, Tait closed his deficit to just one through 16 holes. Manuel, however, won the 17^th hole of the afternoon to close out the match.

Po was defeated by UConn's Tommy Dallahan, 2 & 1, in the No. 6 spot. Po led in the early goings, and then trailed by as many as three holes. His victory on No. 4 cut his deficit to just a single hole, but Dallahan was able to hold on late.

Tournament Details:
BIG EAST MATCH PLAY
Location: Belleair, Fla.
Course: Pelican Golf Club
Course Vitals: Par-70, 6,933 yards
Dates: February 1-2, 2021

THE COURSE:
Pelican Golf Club combines the beauty of old-world courses of the past with state-of-the-art infrastructure. The course features manicured fairways and uninterrupted rough with greens and tees maintained at the highest levels.

You will not find a more striking course anywhere else in the region. Pelican Golf Course is the first location on the west coast of Florida to have Latitude 36 Bermudagrass on all fairways. Latitude 36 keeps its vibrant green color during the winter months for much longer than other courses, which ensures gorgeous grounds all season long.

THE FIELD:
Four BIG EAST schools will compete at the BIG EAST Match Play, Connecticut, DePaul, Marquette and Seton Hall. Each team will play two matches on Monday and one match on Tuesday with six golfers competing.

TEE TIMES:
Seton Hall will round out the two-day event on Tuesday with one final match against Marquette. Tee times are scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m.

RESULTS:
Live scoring of the event will be available through Golfstat. Complete results of each day's events will also be available following competition at SHUpirates.com.