MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – May 21, 2016, was a beautiful spring day at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in Denver, Colorado. The temperature rose to 83 degrees with a breeze out of the south and bright blue skies – the perfect day for golf.
On the course that day, Joey Savoie was trying to take down Lee Gearhart of Chico State in the NCAA Division II championship match play final round to give his Saint Leo Lions their first team title. His teammate, freshman Hugo Bernard, had already won the individual crown.
Savoie remembers leading Gearhart by two strokes with five holes left when he started to look around and realize the position he was in.