The Bulldogs fin­ished tied for sev­enth at the 2010 Men’s Golf Championships, rep­re­sent­ing the high­est fin­ish in school history.

The Bulldogs fin­ished eighth in the national cham­pi­onships last year and this sea­son marked the school’s 14^th appear­ance in pro­gram his­tory in the event. The Bulldogs, who fin­ished the sea­son ranked 24^th in the final Golf World/Nike Golf Division II Coaches’ Poll of the spring sea­son, started out strong in the open­ing round with a team score of 305 to move into third place.A second-round 310 pushed Ferris down to eighth place. The Bulldogs shot 308 and 309 over the final two rounds to fin­ish with 1,232 (+80) strokes. Twenty teams took part in the tournament.

Ferris senior Kurt Valley, who recently was named to the All-GLIAC First Team for his third straight all-conference nod, led the way for the Bulldogs with a three-round total of 227 and a tie for 18^th place.

Kurt Valley, senior

Fellow senior Eric Lilleboe ended the tour­na­ment with a score of 232 in his final col­le­giate tour­na­ment, plac­ing tied for 38^th over­all. Lilleboe was named a 2009–2010 Division II Men’s Golf PING All-America First Team selec­tion and earned his sec­ond con­sec­u­tive GLIAC Men’s Golf Athlete of the Year award this season.

Junior Joe Brown fin­ished in a tie for 49^th place by shoot­ing a 234 for the tour­ney while senior Craig Burrows, an All-GLIAC hon­or­able men­tion for 2009–2010, fin­ished one stroke behind Brown to end the tour­na­ment in a 54^th-place tie.

Rounding out the team score for Ferris was junior Garrett Simons, who joined Valley and Lilleboe on the All-GLIAC First Team for his first all-conference hon­ors of his career. Simons fin­ished with a three-round score of 240 to claim part of a tie for 77^th place.

The Bulldogs can look back on a sea­son where they claimed a top-three fin­ish in nine of the 12 tour­na­ments they par­tic­i­pated in dur­ing the 2009–2010 sea­son under third-year head coach Mike Mignano. Ferris also claimed or shared first place in four tour­na­ments dur­ing the sea­son, includ­ing a win at the Michigan State Fossum Invitational on April 25 against Division I competition.