JUNO BEACH, Fla. //  Navy senior golfer Keegan Shreves (Potomac, Md.) completed the two-day, 54-hole Jackson T. Stephens Cup with a 2-over par 218 to tie for 23rd among a field that featured six of the top 20 teams in the country. Shreves was one of seven golfers who received a special invitation to play as an individual in the team-scored event.

Shreves, who was playing in his second event (Army-Navy Star Match) in the span of five days, struggle in the opening round, carding a 4-over par 76. However, the Mids' team captain found his stride and came back to shoot back-to-back 71s to finish just 2 strokes out of the top 20.

Shreves was the top finisher among the seven golfers who received a special invitation to play in the event, including service academy foes Isaac Layne of Air Force who placed 29th with a 5-over par 221 and Army's Dragon Theam who was 38th with a 15-over par 231.

Shreves shot par on 36 of the 54 holes, while recording 9 birdies over the two days.

North Carolina, ranked 13th in the latest installment of the Bushnell/Golfweek DI Coaches Poll, won the stroke play portion of the tournament by an incredible 20 strokes over Florida State. The Tar Heels finished 43 strokes under par and featured back-to-back rounds of 16 under (272-272-277=821). Fourteenth-ranked Florida State placed second with a 23-under par 841 (281-280-280), followed by No. 3 Stanford (-20, 844), #19 Texas (-8, 856), Arkansas (-6, 858), #20 Notre Dame (-6, 858) and #11 Oklahoma State (-3, 861).

North Carolina placed five individuals among the top 10, including David Ford who secured medalist honors with his 16-under par 200 (68-62-70). It was the fifth-lowest mark in school history.

North Carolina will square off against Florida State on Wednesday in match play for the tournament title.

The Jackson T. Stephens Cup is named in memory of the late Augusta National Chairman Jackson T. Stephens, who attended the Naval Academy and graduated as a member of the Class of 1947. The field at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium is named Jack Stephens Field, whose gift of $10 million in 2003 aided in the renovations of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, as well as a handful of other projects part of the United States Naval Academy Campaign: Leaders to Serve the Nation.

Shreves and his Navy teammates close out the fall season at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate, a three-day, 54-hole event slated to begin Oct. 23 at the Kilmarlic Golf Club in Powell's Point, N.C. The Mids placed 14th at last year's event.

### Go Navy ###