COAL VALLEY, Ill. --- UNI's JD Pollard shot the best round of his Panther career, while Tommy Doyle scored one of the tournament's seven eagles on Monday as the Panthers surged up the team leaderboard, setting up a tight finish team race heading into Tuesday at Oakwood Country Club and the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Championships.
Having tied with Southern Illinois after Sunday's first round, UNI posted a team score of 278 on Monday, the second-best score in the field behind only first place Illinois State. Creating some distance between fourth place Bradley (570), the Panthers sit only four strokes behind second place Valparaiso, and individual tournament leader Anthony Delisanti at 130 (-12).