Akron, Ohio – After the first round of play at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate, the Akron men's golf team leads the field by two strokes with a 5-under par 279 opening round team effort. Three of the Zips' starting five carded scores below par as senior J.B. Williams (Danville, Ky.) is tied for the top spot on the leaderboard with Bowling Green's Pablo Heredia Iglesias and La Salle's Andrew Reynolds at 4-under par with 67 strokes.
"We played well today," Zips' head coach David Trainor said. "We started the round great on the most difficult side of the course.