WATERBURY, Vt.  -- The University of Maine at Farmington stands in fourth place after the first round of the North Atlantic Conference Men's Golf Championships at the Country Club of Vermont today.

Five-time defending NAC champ Husson University leads the field at 295 followed by Salem State College (301), Castleton State College (315) and UMF (329).

Orion Cochrane (Greenville, Maine) was the Beavers' top finisher at 76, five strokes off the pace set by Husson's Chris Hamel and Matt Loubier.

The second round begins Sunday at 8:30 a.m.