Eric Lilleboe shot a school record 14-under par to lead the Bulldogs to a first place finish

Senior Eric Lilleboe recorded a school-record 14-under par in the Saginaw Valley State Al Watrous Memorial Intercollegiate Invitational last weekend.

Lilleboe’s three round total of 202 was seven shots bet­ter than the pre­vi­ous record of 209 strokes. Jim Lusk pre­vi­ously held the record, which had stood since 1998. The first place fin­ish marked the fourth in Lilleboe’s Bulldog career.

The men’s golf team opened the 2009–2010 sea­son with a nine shot vic­tory over Grand Valley State. Ferris as a team was 27-under par for the tour­na­ment and Grand Valley was 18-under par. There was a big gap between the top two teams as no other teams were under par. Host Saginaw Valley State fin­ished in third place with a 1-over par.

Prior to the tour­na­ment, the Bulldogs were ranked in a tie for 17^th nation­ally in the Division II Golf World/NIKE Golf poll.

The team will com­pete next on Sept. 20 at the NCAA-II Midwest Region Tournament in South Haven, Mich. It is the first of three regional tour­na­ments through­out the course of the season.