Three Men's Golfers Record Top-Five Finishes at Mount St. Mary's Fall Invitational

10/29/06 -- Sophomore Rob Gallagher (Morganton, N.C.) fired a final-round 76 to tie for the low round of the day as the Long Island University men's golf team finished third at the Mount St. Mary's Fall Invitational this weekend.

Gallgher shaved three strokes off his first-round 79 en route to the best finish of his career. The North Carolina native finished two strokes behind medalist Keita Aoki of Bucknell.

As a team, the Blackbirds narrowly missed tying for team honors at 639, with Bucknell and Fordham tying for first place one stroke better. Long Island was the Northeast Conference's best finisher, beating fourth-place St. Francis (Pa.) by eight strokes.

Senior Patrick Kelly (Brisbane, Australia) and sophomore Greg Nicolson (Edinburgh, Scotland) closed two strokes behind Gallagher and finished in a tie for fourth place.

The MSM Invitational marked the final event for the Blackbirds this fall.