Tournament Name: Fighting Irish Classic
Dates: Oct. 7-8
Host: Notre Dame
Course: Warren Golf Course – Par 71 – 7,023 yards
Location: South Bend, Ind.
Tee Times and Format: Rounds 1 & 2 - Monday, Oct. 7 (8:30 a.m. ET shotgun start), Round 3 - Monday, Oct. 8 (Tee times start at 8:00 a.m. ET off #1 and #10)
Participating Schools: Arizona State, Boston College, Georgia Southern, Iowa, Iowa State, Kent State, Michigan, Michigan State, North Carolina, Rutgers, Toledo, UMKC and Notre Dame.

Georgia Southern Lineup (scoring average)
Jake Maples (3 rds, 68.33)
Mason Williams (6 rds, 68.67)
Ben Carr (6 rds, 69.16)
Colin Bowles (6 rds, 69.66)
Brett Barron (6 rds, 70.00)

Individuals
Luukas Alakulppi (6 rds, 70.83)

Georgia Southern travels to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Classic for the third straight season. GS first competed in the event in 2013 and finished fourth, and the Eagles have placed second there in each of the last two seasons.

Avery Price shot a 62 in the first round of last year's tournament, the second-lowest round in event history, and the Eagles' 266 team score in last year's first round set the tourney record. GS wound up finishing 10 strokes behind winner Illinois and three ahead of North Carolina, and Steven Fisk earned medalist honors, the third of what would become four consecutive wins for the senior.

Georgia Southern is coming of a second-straight team title at the J.T. Poston Invitational last week, which saw four Eagles finish in the top-10 and six finish in the top -30. Mason Williams (-13) tied for second for his best career finish and was named the Sun Belt Conference Golfer of the Week. 

Georgia Southern set a 54-hole team tournament record with a 47-under par 805 over at the event. The score also set the school record for team score in a 54-hole event, beating the previous mark by 13 strokes, and the Eagles are the first team to repeat as champion in the 14-year history of West Carolina-hosted events at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley.  Senior Brett Barron (-10) tied for fourth, sophomore Ben Carr (-9) tied for seventh and senior Jake Maples (-8) placed ninth.

Barron makes his 30th career start this week and has been in the lineup in the last nine tournaments, and Carr makes his 15th start in the lineup for the Eagles. Maples makes his eighth start in the lineup, and Colin Bowles makes his seventh in a row. Williams will be in the lineup for the 11th time in his career.

The Eagles are paired with Iowa State and Rutgers and will tee off holes 11-14 at 8:30 a.m. Monday.

Following the trip to Indiana, GS has nearly three weeks off before traveling to the White Sands Intercollegiate in Nassau, Bahamas, Nov. 1-3.