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STAC Sits Sixth In The East, As 2026 NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championship Regional Field Set

STAC Sits Sixth In The East, As 2026 NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championship Regional Field Set

The NCAA has announced the field of 80 teams and 32 student-athletes competing as individuals that have been selected to participate in regional competition of the 2026 NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championships. St. Thomas Aquinas College finished sixth in the final regular season regional rankings, released Sunday, and have been selected to participate in the Atlantic/East Regional. Regional play will be conducted May 7-9 at Sunnehanna Country Club in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and hosted by University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown.

After concluding the 2025 fall semester finishing fifth (Southern New Hampshire University Granite State Opener), seventh (Saint Francis University Red Flash Invitational), ninth (Iona University Wykagyl Collegiate) and fourteenth (University of Pitt-Johnstown Sunnehanna Collegiate) in four invitationals, the Spartans began their spring season with a ninth place finish at the Ohio Dominican University Pawleys Island Beach Bash and then followed that up by winning the Thomas Jefferson University Spring Invitational, before placing seventeenth in the Barry University Battle at the Lakes and third in the West Chester University Dr. Edwin B. Cottrell Invitational. A win in the Rockland County Cup against Dominican University, a twelveth place finish in the Columbia University Roar-EE Invitational and a runner up finish in the St. Thomas Aquinas College Spartan Shootout capped a memorable spring.

The top three teams and the top two student-athletes not with a team from each regional will advance to the finals May 18-22 at the Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nevada. The finals will be hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

 

Tournaments will be conducted at four regional sites with regional pairings as follows:.

Atlantic and East

Central and Midwest

South and Southeast

South Central and West

 

Teams and individuals are listed in rank order. Conference automatic qualifiers are indicated in brackets next to the institution’s name.

 

ATLANTIC/EAST REGIONAL

Sunnehanna Country Club, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown host.

Atlantic Region:
1.    Gannon
2.    West Chester [Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference]
3.    Pittsburgh-Johnstown
4.    Indiana (Pennsylvania)
5.    Bluefield State
6.    California (Pennsylvania)
7.    Charleston (West Virginia) [Mountain East Conference]
8.    Winston-Salem State
9.    Glenville State
10.   Fairmont State
11.   Fayetteville State [Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association]
12.   Wheeling
13.   West Liberty
 
Individuals:
1.    Christopher Baguma, Virginia State
2.    Trey Rios, Shepherd
3.    Lucio Pavicich, Davis & Elkins
4.    Morgan Dehoff, Shepherd
  
East Region:
1.    Adelphi
2.    Assumption
3.    Post
4.    Southern New Hampshire [Northeast-10 Conference]
5.    Bentley
6.    St. Thomas Aquinas
7.    Wilmington (Delaware) [Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference]
 
Individuals:
1.    Pablo Hidalgo, Felician
2.    Jaden Minter, Thomas Jefferson University
3.    Brandon Vitarisi, Saint Anselm
4.    Seth Saffel, Franklin Pierce