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DURHAM, N.C. – The North Carolina Central men’s golf team travels to Jonesboro, Ark., for the Bubba Barnett Intercollegiate at RidgePointe Country Club on Monday and Tuesday. Tee times are 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. eastern standard time on Monday while Tuesday’s tee time is 9 a.m.
The Eagles will play in Arkansas for the first time as a Division I program. They will face 16 teams on the par 72, 6,676-yard course including host Arkansas State in the two-day, 54-hole event.
NCCU is led by standout golfers Iszac Bertagnole and Jamal Hutchison, who both earned co-medalist honors in the fall season. Bertagnole tied for first in the Ironwood Collegiate Classic last week and Hutchison tied for first in the Thomas W. Dortch Jr. HBCU Golf Classic two weeks ago.
Both golfers will head a five-man Eagles’ unit featuring Christian Fisher, Mateo Zolezzi and Nico Tucker. Ninety-eight competitors including two Memphis golfers are scheduled to participate.
Below are the teams set to compete in the Bubba Barnett Intercollegiate:
Evansville
North Carolina Central
Arkansas State
SIU-Edwardsville
LSU-New Orleans
Tennessee State
Incarnate Word
Murray State
Southeastern Louisiana
Nicholls State
Austin Peay State
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Northern Iowa
Lindenwood
Central Arkansas
Bellarmine
Southern Indiana
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