ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga.—Back on the links for the first competition since October, Swarthmore College Men's Golf challenged the reigning NAIA champions, the Coastal Georgia Mariners on Thursday.

On the par-72 Sea Island Resort Retreat course, the Garnet shot a 318 while the home team carded a 280. Coastal Georgia's Trevor Smith shot a 67 to finish on top of the leaderboard.

Dan Altieri paced Swarthmore with a 74, and Michael Chen also finished under-80 with a 79. Nick DiMaio carded an 81 and Vamsi Damerla completed the course in 84 strokes.

Other scores for the Garnet were: Andrew Pak (79), Yousaf Razvi (85), Drew Langan (87), Chris Zhang (89), Hunter Hayes (89), Thomas Kim (90) and Jason Joliffe (96).

Swarthmore's next competition comes in a two-day classic at Patriots Glen on March 19-20.