Haas, Palmerino and Szucs Earn DIII PING All-Region Honors
The Golf Coaches Associations of America named three Empire 8 men's golfers to the Division III PING All-Region Mid-Atlantic Team.
St. John Fisher College senior
Corey Haas and junior
Jeff Palmerino guided the Cardinals to their sixth consecutive Empire 8 Conference golf championship and their 11
th in the last 12 years, while competing in the program's fifth-straight NCAA Championships this season. Stevens Institute of Technology Frank Szucs.
Haas claims his third All-Region honor of his career as he leads the Cardinals in average scoring with a 73.52 this year. The senior is a semifinalist for the 2016 Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award presented by Barbasol. Haas, a two-time Empire 8 Conference Player of the Year, leads the nationally-ranked men's golf team.
This year, Haas has enjoyed seven top-10 finishes in nine tournaments. He was the medalist at the Flower City Championship, beating out a field of 90 for first place.
Palmerino has averaged 76.68 in eight tournaments currently this year for the Cardinals. Back on October 15, 2015 he earned Empire 8 Conference Player of the Week honors for his performance. The junior this year finished tied for second at the Hershey Cup on April 3-4. He finished with a two-day total of 153.
Szucs is the first player in the history of the Stevens program to achieve the honor after taking home the First Team All-Empire 8 Conference nod in April.
Szucs tallied the lowest scoring average in program history this season of 76.13, in a year in which he finished in the top six in eight of Stevens' 10 tournaments. Szucs also set the program mark for single-round low earlier this season with a 69 at the Hamilton College Fall Invitational, leading the Ducks to a team one-round record of 300.
Szucs and the Ducks would go on to break that record the following weekend as the Mason-Dixon Classic when Szucs' 71 was the best mark in the team's 295 total. Led by Szucs, the Ducks also broke the program's two-round record twice.