October 29, 2001
The Texas A&M men's golf team carded back-to-back rounds of 290 on Monday and is in 10th place at the Henry Griffitts Baylor Invitational at Ridgewood Country Club.
The 54-hole tournament concludes with 18 holes on Tuesday.
Lamar and host Baylor are tied for the team lead after posting identical 555 totals, four strokes ahead of New Mexico (559). Arkansas-Little Rock is in fourth at 565, followed by Texas-Arlington (566), Wichita State (567), Illinois (571), Kansas State (577), North Texas (577), A&M (290-290=580), Louisiana-Lafayette (581), Southwest Texas State (582), Sam Houston State (584), Iowa State (584), Rice (588), Belmont (593), Stephen F. Austin (594) and Nebraska (605).
Baylor's Adam Baylor owns the individual lead after blistering the par-70, 6,469-yard layout with a seven-under-par 69-64=133, two strokes head of a group of three players at 135.
Sophomore Stephen Reed led the Aggies with rounds of 71-71=142 and is tied for 19th place. Also for A&M, senior Shaun Helmle is tied for 24th at 70-73=143, senior Sean Gilliland is tied for 41st at 73-73=146, freshman Tyler Garrett is tied for 58th at 76-73=149 and freshman Rand Arbuckle is tied for 79th at 80-74=154.