OCEAN CITY, Md. – A two-over par final round helped Harvard climb the leaderboard to finish as the runner-up at the Battle at Rum Pointe this weekend in the Crimson's first stroke-play event of the spring.  
 
Harvard concluded the 36-hole tournament at 13-over par as a team to take second place among 22 competing teams at Rum Pointe Seaside Golf Links. The Crimson posted a team total of 299 in Saturday's opening round, but improved their performance by nine-strokes on day two to rise from a tie for seventh to solo-second. 
 
First-year Diego Saavedra-Davila and sophomore Adam Xiao were the top individual finishers for the Crimson, carding two-over par tournament totals to tie for 11th. First-year Jeffrey Fang gave Harvard three players inside the top-20 after rounds of 76-72 left him tied for 17th. 
 
Brian Isztwan (+5, T23) and Kevin Sze (+10, T64) rounded out Harvard's weekend lineup, while sophomore Brian Ma tied for 43rd as an individual at 8-over par total. 

Harvard Highlights 

• Adam Xiao had Harvard's low-round of the tournament with a one-under par, 71 in round two. Xiao's T11 finish was the sophomore's best of the 2021-22 season. 
• First-year Diego Saavedra-Davila notched the top finish of his collegiate career, placing T11 out of 120 players in the field. 
• Jeffrey Fang's second round 72 tied for the lowest score of his collegiate career. 

Tournament Notes: 

• Harvard was the top-finisher among the three Ivy-League teams in the field (Cornell, Dartmouth).
• Rhode Island won the tournament with a one-under par team score of 575. 
• Rhode Island's Jordan Brajcich and Cornell's Samuel King tied for individual medalist at four-under par. 
• Scoring average for the weekend was 77.20 (+5.20). 
• The event, hosted by Iona, was played at Rum Pointe Seaside Golf Links (par 72, 7001 yards). 

Up Next: 

Harvard will next tee it up at the Princeton Invitational held at Springdale Country Club, April 9-10.