NORTH DARTMOUTH – Sophomore Alex Honigford tied for fourth individually and the Tufts University golf team was 10th at the Lafrance Hospitality Invitational held at Allendale Country Club on Friday and Saturday.
As a team Tufts scored identical 324's on the two days for a tournament total of 648. They were five strokes behind ninth-place Western New England, which came in at 323-320-643. The Jumbos were seven ahead of 11th-place Farmingdale State (327-328-655).
After shooting two-over 74 on Friday, Honigford had a 78 under less than ideal conditions on Saturday. His two-day 152 was +8 and ranked behind only individual medalist Gavin Dugas from Husson (73-74-147), second-place Ryan Zogby from Western New Engalnd (76-74-150) and third-place Ryan Burrill of Roger Williams (77-74-151).
Freshman Adam Schwimmer scored for Tufts on both days including an 80 on Saturday. His two-day 164 was in the top 40 out of 75 players in the tournament.
An 81 by freshman Louis Yoon was Tufts' third score on Saturday. Both senior Brian Creonte and junior Sanjay Mukherjee shot 85's. Mukherjee was in the top 30 individually at 77-85-162.
Host Mass.-Dartmouth won the tournament with a 307-316-623 scoring line. Husson was the runner-up at 321-307-628.
Tufts will compete at the 2019 NESCAC Championship at Middlebury College next weekend (Apr. 27-28).
