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RICHMOND, Ky. – The Eastern Kentucky University men's golf team will host the EKU Intercollegiate on Friday and Saturday at the University Club at Arlington.
 
Teams will play 36-holes on Friday beginning with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. The EKU Intercollegiate will conclude on Saturday with 18-holes, beginning with a shotgun start at 9 a.m.
 
This will mark the fifth year for the event. The EKU Intercollegiate was not held in 2020.  In 2019, the Colonels finished fifth. Willis Gaer led Eastern Kentucky and tied for fourth with a 3-round total of 211 (+1).  Northern Kentucky captured the title by seven shots.
 
Sixteen teams will be competing. They include: Austin Peay, Bellarmine, Dayton, Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville State, Longwood, Marshall, Missouri State, Morehead State, Murray State, Northern Kentucky, Ohio, Purdue Fort Wayne, Samford, Southern Illinois Edwardsville and Western Carolina.
 
The five starters for EKU will be Gaer, Lake Leroux, Francesco Guarneri, Joe Benton and Reese Sexton.Matt Jordan, Wil Griffin, Pablo Carrascosa Vivas and Cade Burdette will play as individuals.
 
Gaer, a senior from Des Moines, Iowa, is the only player in the starting five who has played in a collegiate event as a Colonel.He was third on the team last season with a 75.5 stroke average.
 
Leroux, a native of Columbia, Missouri, is a senior transfer from Wichita State.Guarneri, who is from Santiago, Chile, is a junior transfer from the University of the Cumberlands.Benton, from nearby Irvine, Kentucky, and Sexton, from Monticello, Kentucky, are both redshirt freshmen.
 
Nestled into 200 beautiful and scenic acres, the University Club at Arlington 18-hole course will play to a par-of 70 and 6,653 yards over the two-day tournament.