JONESBORO, Ark. (4/3/16) – Steve Tricarico Sr. and Adam Carney claimed the eighth annual Wayne Wolfe Collegiate-Amateur championship at RidgePointe Country Club Sunday afternoon, one day before the start of the 20th Annual Red Wolves Intercollegiate hosted by the Arkansas State men's golf team.

Local amateurs from the tournament's major sponsors were paired with different student-athletes from the competing teams for a single round during the collegiate-amateur dedicated to the late Wayne Wolfe, who was a key figure in the founding of the Red Wolves Intercollegiate. Today's top finishers were recognized and received awards at a tournament banquet honoring Wolfe. Tricarico Sr. was a member of the winning team for the fourth time, while Carney picked up his first championship at the event.

The two-day tournament will begin Monday at 8:00 a.m. with a shotgun start for the first round. The second round will immediately follow the first on Monday, and the third and final round will begin at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday.

Fourteen schools from nine different states are competing in this year's tournament, including Arkansas State, Austin Peay, Belmont, Creighton, Eastern Illinois, Florida Atlantic, Nebraska-Omaha, New Orleans, Nicholls State, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, South Dakota, SIU-Edwardsville and Tennessee-Martin.

Arkansas State owns six Red Wolves Intercollegiate championships, last winning the tournament in 2014. Four A-State players have won the tournament all-time, with the most recent being Sawyer Radler in 2012.

The Red Wolves will be playing in their 10th tournament of the season, including their fifth of the spring. The have tied the school record for tournament championships in a season with four and have finished runner-up or better six times this year. A-State, which will use “A” and “B” teams, is led by Andrew Huseman . The sophomore will carry a team-best 72.24 stroke average and four top-five finishes into the tournament.

Live scoring will be used for the tournament and can be viewed at GolfStat.com. Tournament results will also be posted on AStateRedWolves.com, the official Web site of A-State Athletics.