ECU Set For Bank Of Tennessee Intercollegiate

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. --- The ECU men's golf team will wrap up its 2017 fall schedule this weekend, Oct. 13-15, at the 20^th annual Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate hosted by East Tennessee State University.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
The Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate begins Friday and runs through Sunday at the Blackthorn Club at the Ridges. Teams will tee off Friday and Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m., with each team beginning on No. 1. Sunday's tee times and pairings will be released at the conclusion of Saturday's round. The par-72, 7,147-yard course was designed by two-time Golf Digest Architect-of-the-Year Arthur Hills. The event is celebrating its 20^th anniversary this season. Tennessee (2004, '06, '09) and Virginia (2010, '13, '16) has won the event three times apiece while TCU (2000, '01) and Wake Forest (2002, '14) have captured a pair of tournament titles each. ECU participated in the event once previously, finishing eighth in 2015.

The 15-team field includes host ETSU, Coastal Carolina, ECU, Furman, Kansas State, Kent State, Louisville, Missouri, Penn State, Tennessee UNCW, VCU, Villanova, Virginia Tech and Virginia. Three of the aforementioned teams are ranked in the latest Golfweek top-20 with Missouri entering the tournament at No. 5, Tennessee at No. 11 and Kent State at No. 17.

TEAM UPDATE
ECU posted its best finish of the fall earlier this month at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate, tying for fifth-place with a season-low tournament score of 871. The Pirates have watched their scores go down each tournament and have had a different individual post the low score during each event.

ECU LINEUP
The Pirates will field the lineup of Tim Conover, Patrick Stephenson, Blake Taylor, Jackson Spires and Stephen Carroll. This is Carroll's first appearance in the lineup and second tournament of the fall. He competed as an individual at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate. Conover, Stephenson, Taylor and Spires all played in each of the first three tournaments. Conover, Stephenson and Taylor are each averaging 2-over-par per round this season with Spires carding an average round of 3-over-par. Conover is coming off his best performance of the fall after firing a 5-under-par 211 at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate, tying for fourth. Taylor won the team's only other top-10 finish of the season, tying for seventh at the season-opening Wolf Run Intercollegiate.

COACH'S QUOTE
"To have a chance in the final round, to be in that top three with a chance to win the tournament, playing in the last group (is where we need to be. We play a sport where unfortunately we don't get to play defense so we can't control what any other team does. This is our last tournament of the fall and we really want to end it off on a good note, just showing improvement from beginning to end." - ECU Head Coach Andrew Sapp (told to The East Carolinian)

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Players Mentioned

Stephen Carroll

Tim Conover

Jackson Spires

Patrick Stephenson

Blake Taylor

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