FARMINGTON, Pa. -- Three members of the Eastern Michigan University men's golf team combined to capture individual titles at two different tournaments that were played simultaneously at the same resort, Oct. 5-6, as Vicente Quiroga finished a three-way tie for medalist honors in the Nemacolin Collegiate Invitational while Felipe Suarez and Robby Turnbull shared the top spot at the Shepherd's Rock Individual. The events, both hosted by West Virginia inside the Nemacolin Woodland Resort in Farmington, Pa., saw Quiroga guide the team to a second-place finish on the Mystic Course while Suarez and Turnbull won their crowns on the Shepherd's Rock Course.
At the Nemacolin Collegiate Invitational, played on the Mystic Rock Course, Eastern Michigan shot Even-par 864 (287-298-279) over 54 holes to finish second among 16 teams as Seton Hall won the event at 1-under 863 (297-287-279), edging the Eagles by a single stroke, while host West Virginia finished third at 5-over 869. Both the Eagles and Pirates moved up two spots in the final standings as each fired rounds of 9-under, the lowest of any round in the tournament.
Leading the charge in that final round was Quiroga (Cochabamba, Bolivia/Tiquipaya School), who fired a 9-under 63 to tie the program record for the lowest single round. His 63 matched the mark set by Charlie Box (Leicester, England/Wreake Valley Academy/Hutchinson CC) exactly one year earlier at the West Bay Collegiate after he tied Tim Chan, who was the first to record the mark while playing in the 2024 White Sands Bahamas Invitational. Quiroga rallied from tied for 22nd after two rounds to finish tied for first individually at 5-under 211 (73-75-63), sharing medalist honors with Seton Hall's Will Hennessee and Auburn's Hampton Beebe. It marked his best collegiate finish after tying for 11th at the Highlands Invitational two weeks earlier and stood as the 27th medalist honor earned by a member of the program since the 1980-81 season.
Parin Sarasmut (Bangkok, Thailand/Srinakharinwirot) was the Green and White's other standout in the team event, finishing tied for sixth individually at 2-under 214 (71-73-70). Sarasmut was steady throughout, posting rounds at or under par in rounds one and three to contribute significantly to EMU's team score across all three days. His finish marked his second career top 10 showing after he tied for second at the season-opening Bombs Darts Birds Collegiate in college debut.
Box finished tied for 29th at 6-over 222 (71-74-77) while Arsit Areephun (Chiang Rai, Thailand/Samakkhivittayakhom/Delaware) finished tied for 35th at 8-over 224 (72-79-73) and Joshua Hess (Schattdorf, Switzerland/Montverde Academy (Fla.)) tied for 45th at 10-over 226 (77-76-73).
At the concurrent Shepherd's Rock Individual, which featured 14 total players in the field and did not feature team scoring, Eastern Michigan swept the top two spots and placed three players in the top five. Turnbull (Auckland, New Zealand/Selwyn College) and Suarez (Cordoba, Argentina/La Santisima Trinidad/Missouri Valley College) each finished at 6-under 210, sharing co-medalist honors. The wins marked the 25th and 26th medalist finishes in program history and gave Turnbull his first collegiate win while Suarez captured his first as an NCAA Division I player after winning five times with NAIA Missouri Valley last year. Ben Sessions (Dunmow, Essex, UK/The Bishop's Stortford) added a fifth-place finish at 5-over 221 (73-74-74), giving EMU three players in the top five of the individual tournament.
