Setting the Scene:
The Course: Lake of Isles - North Course - N. Stonington, Conn. (par 72/7,252 yards)

The Format:  First Round - Saturday, April 11; Final Round - Sunday, April 12

The Field: 16 teams, 89 total golfers

Weather: windy, sunny, 60 degrees

Rhode Island's Individual Results:
* Billy Walthouse sits in a tie for eighth place after Saturday's opening round.  The sophomore carded a 3-over 75.  He carded one birdie and 13 pars on the afternoon.
 
* Nick Fairweather sits one stroke behind Walthouse, after a first round score of 76.  He is tied for 12th place.

* Makenzie Denver is tied for 21st after posting a 77 during the opening 18 holes of play.  

* Joe Leavitt opened the tournament with a score of 82, putting him in a tie for 55th place.

* Seamus Fennelly is tied for 74th place (86) after the first round.

Rhode Island Team Results:
* The Rams fired a first round total score of 310, putting them in fifth place.  URI is three strokes out of second place, as UMass Lowell (307), Bryant (308), and LIU Brooklyn (309) are all within striking distance.  Hartford sits atop the leaderboard, with a score of 295.  Hartford's Will Betts is in first place individually (68).

Quotable:
"We certainly left a lot of shots out there, but so many of them are attributable to not having played enough due to the weather.  Great practice and hard work indoors has truly made us better ballstrikers, but there is no way to replicate pressure and short-game shots indoors. The good news is that most of the guys had long stretches of great golf.  We can build on that."
— head coach Gregg Burke

What's Next:
Rhode Island returns to play in the second round of the UConn Husky Invitational on April 12.