The Eastern men’s golf team will play in the Arkansas State Red Wolf Intercollegiate golf tournament in Jonesboro, Ark., starting Monday and ending Tuesday.

The 20 teams competing will be playing 18 holes one of the days and 36 holes the other.

The field includes six schools from the Ohio Valley Conference, as Eastern will compete against Tennessee-Martin, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and Belmont.

There will also be three schools from the state of Illinois in DePaul, Southern Illinois-Carbondale and Illinois State, which will also play in the two-day tournament.

Last year in this event, the Panthers placed last in the field with a score of 945, which was 93-over par for the tournament.

Kevin Flack posted the best score for the Panthers, with a score of 225 for the three rounds. He ended his day with a four-under, 68 in the final round of the tournament, which was tied for the second-lowest score of the tournament.

Austin Peay, which is not in the field this time around, won the tournament last year with a three-round score of 857.

The last time the Panthers played was three weeks ago on March 11, when they competed in the Butler Bulldog invitational in Jacksonville, Fla.

The Panthers placed fifth in the tournament and Oscar Borda shot a 14-over two-round total of 158 for the two days.

Austin Sproles placed in the top-20 along with Borda, posting a two-round total of 162.

Sproles has led the Panthers all year with an average of 75.9 per round this season. He has placed in the top five in one event this season and has a low round of 68 this season.

As a team this season, the Panthers have placed in the top five, three times and have yet to crack the top three in any tournament.

Their lowest round this season as a team was back in October, when they shot a 586 at the Butler Fall Invitational.

This is the second to final tune-up for the Panthers before they compete in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in a couple of weeks.

The 54-hole event starts at 8 a.m. Monday that will be hosted by the Ridge Pointe Country Club in Jonesboro, Ark. The second day of the tournament will also have action beginning at 8 a.m.

Bob Reynolds can be reached at 581-2812 or rjreynolds@eiu.edu.