BEREA, OHIO -- The Baldwin Wallace University men's golf team ranks fourth of nine teams after day one (Friday, March 26) of the 2010 Muskingum University Spring Invitational Tournament at Eagle Sticks Golf Course in Zanesville, Ohio. The second and final day of the tournament tees-off at 10:45 a.m. tomorrow morning.

The Yellow Jackets battled wet and windy conditions to shoot 312 as a team on the par-70 and 6,508-yard course.

Malone University leads the team standings at 286 strokes and is followed in the top five by Otterbein College (305), Mount Union College (308), BW (312) and Capital University (315).

Junior Matt Weiss (Concord/Mentor) led the way for BW with an opening round 76 and senior Mike Falk (Strongsville) was second at 78. Senior Nick Bryan (Zanesville/ Rosecrans) and sophomore Ricky Jaskolski (North Royalton/Parma Padua Franciscan) each shot 79 to round out the Yellow Jacket scoring. Freshman Stephen Spalding (Stow/Walsh Jesuit) was fifth with an 81.

Competing as individuals, junior Brian Routhieaux (Gibsonia, Pa./Mars Area) shot 79, senior Cory Swaisgood (Fremont/St. Joseph's Central Catholic) shot 80 and sophomore Kyle Lewis (Riverside, Calif./Riverside Poly) shot 89.

Following tomorrow's round, BW is idle until Saturday and Sunday, April 10-11, at the Denison University Ted Barclay Invitational at Granville Golf Course in Granville, Ohio.

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