AVON, Ind. -- Led by a second place finish from senior Christian Poling, the University of Evansville men's golf team finished third out of nine teams in the rain-shortened Butler Spring Invitational at Prestwick Country Club.

Poling shot 71 to finish one stroke behind tournament medalist Dylan Gergen of Loyola. It was Poling's best round of 2009-10, and just two strokes off his career best. Also in the top 10 was UE's Griffin Wood, in ninth place with a 73. Fifty players competed in the tourney. As a team, the Aces shot 297, five shots behind co-champions Loyola and Dayton.

TEAM SCORES: T1. Loyola, Dayton 292; 3. Evansville 297; 4. Wisconsin-Green Bay 302; 5. Eastern Illinois 303; 6. Valparaiso 307; 7. Butler 310; 8. Robert Morris 311; 9. IUPUI 312.

UE SCORES: T2. Christian Poling 71; T9. Griffin Wood 73; *T13. Tim Simmons 74; T23. Michael Sainz 76; T25. Andrew Luo 77; *T29. Bryan Milloy 79; T37. Neal Millay 81.

*played as individual