Crete, Ill. – Ending the program's first season of competition in a big way, the Saint Xavier University men's golf team finished third overall out of the 11 teams competing at the 2013 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) Golf Championship earlier this week at the Balmoral Woods Country Club in Crete, Ill.  In addition, SXU had three of its golfers named to the 2013 All-CCAC Men's Golf Teams with junior Kirby Brown (West Des Moines, Iowa/Kirkwood CC/Valley) earning first-team recognition and juniors James Kerr (Solihull, England/Western Texas/Arch Bishop Ilsley) and Brendan Ryan (Alsip, Ill./Moraine Valley CC/Shepard) claiming second team honors.  The Cougars shot a combined team score of 609 over the two-day event (301, 308) just five strokes behind conference champion, University of St. Francis (Ill.).  Brown finished second overall in the field of 54 golfers shooting an impressive two-day score of 148 (71, 77). 

Joliet, Ill. - Setting a new school-record team score of 284 in the process, the Saint Xavier University men's golf team went stroke-for-stroke with Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) host University of St. Francis (Ill.) Tuesday at its Spring Invite and came up just short of the top spot in the field of 12 teams at Inwood Golf Course in Joliet, Ill. The host Fighting Saints won the Invite with a combined score of 281, a school record team score for their program as well. SXU finished in front of a number of other conference foes at the Invite, including Olivet Nazarene University (5th-308), Calumet College of St. Joseph (7th-309), Trinity Christian College (7th-309) and Purdue University-North Central (11th-320).

Phoenix, Ariz. – Behind three solid rounds by junior James Kerr (Solihull, England/Western Texas/Arch Bishop Ilsley), the Saint Xavier University men's golf team got its spring season underway last week in Arizona competing in two tournaments over SXU's "Spring Break" week.  The Cougars finished seventh out of eight teams at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) Spring Invite at Antelope Hills North Golf Course in Prescott, Ariz., from March 10-12 and then won a three-team tourney with Arizona Christian University and Baldwin-Wallace College (Ohio) on March 14 at Moon Valley Country Club in Phoenix.  Kerr shot two rounds of 75 for a combined score of 150 to lead the team at the ERAU Spring Invite and then scored a round of 74 to lead SXU to a team score of 306 in Thursday's tourney.