Bridgeport, W.Va. – With two upperclassmen in graduate transfer Adam Hooker and fifth-year senior Louis Theys among the individual top 10 after 18 holes, the Western Carolina men's golf team stood seventh out of 13 teams on Monday at the Mountaineer Invitational, hosted by West Virginia University at the par-72, 7,308-yard Pete Dye Golf Club. Scheduled for 36 holes of continuous play, Monday's second round was suspended by darkness with golfers anywhere from three-to-six holes shy of completion.
 
Play will resume at 9 a.m. with those golfers that completed round two beginning their third round of play on holes No. 1 and 10 with the same pairings as of today with the remainder of the field starting the final 18 holes once they are through 36 total. Live scoring through GolfStat is available online through a link at CatamountSports.com.
 
Both Hooker and Theys finished the opening round in a tie for 10th-place. Opening on the back nine, Hooker countered three bogeys with a pair of birdies to make the turn to the front at 1-over par. He finished with three bogeys and a third birdie for the 3-over par round of 75. After opening with a bogey, Theys birdied the par-5 11th followed by six-consecutive pars to stand poised to make the turn to the front nine even-par before a double-bogey on No. 18. The Villers-Perwin, Belgium, product finished Monday's first round with two birdies against three bogeys for the 3-over par round.
 
Redshirt junior Pablo Hernandez was tied for 34th after the opening 18 holes, carding a trio of birdies in his 6-over par round of 78 with senior Magnus Pedersen and redshirt freshman Josh Lendach tied for 40th a stroke back at 79. Pedersen finished his opening 18 holes with his lone birdie of the round with Lendach also carding one birdie in his first round.
 
Playing unattached as an individual, Canadian-born sophomore Kiefer Bulau fired an opening-round score of 85 with eight pars and a birdie on the par-4 sixth after opening on the front nine.
 

 
No. 20 Oklahoma State held a narrow, one-stroke lead over tournament-host West Virginia, 301-to-302, after the opening 18 holes. TCU and Marshall stood tied for third just two strokes off the pace at 303 with Drexel and James Madison tied for fifth with matching scores of 305.
 
Peicheng Chen of St. John's and Oklahoma State's Jonas Baumgartner were tied atop the individual leaderboard with identical first-round scores of 1-under par 71. The first-place tie represented the only golfers under par entering the second round.
 
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7 – Western Carolina – 307 (+19)
T10 – Adam Hooker (1) – 75 (+3)
T10 – Louis Theys (5) – 75 (+3)
T34 – Pablo Hernandez (2) – 78 (+6)
T40 – Magnus Pedersen (3) – 79 (+7)
T40 – Josh Lendach (4) – 79 (+7)
T74 – Kiefer Bulau (ind.) – 85 (+13)