Matthias Eggenberger, who formed part of a formidable Swiss team at this year's Eisenhower Trophy, set County Louth alight on day one of the Irish Colleges Invitational Tournament, writes the GUI.

A two-under 70 in round one was matched with another - much more impressive - effort in the afternoon winds at Baltray, which were enough to give Eggenberger a handsome lead in the individual standings, and also propel the University of Stirling into a surely unassailable 16-shot lead over Maynooth University's A and B teams.

Maynooth's charges are closely pursued by Waterford IT, UCD (B) and UCC (A), all of whom are one shot behind a podium berth going into the final round.

Irish Colleges Invitational Tournament, Co Louth Golf Club, Thursday 2 October

Team totals (aggregate of two out of three scores)
Par 72 (Men) \ Par 75 (Ladies)

Leading team totals

• University of Stirling (a) 284 (-4)
• Maynooth University (b) 300 (+12)
• Maynooth University (a) 300 (+12)
• University College Cork 301 (+13)
• Waterford IT 301 (+13)
• University College Dublin (b) 301 (+13)
• University of Stirling (b) 310 (+16)
• University of Ulster (a) 305 (+17)
• Queens University Belfast 311 (+17)
• University College Dublin (a) 305 (+17)
• University of Exeter 306 (+18)

Individual Scores after two rounds

140 Mathias Eggenberger 70 70

144 Henry Tomlinson 71 73

147 Iain Collins 72 75

148 Greg O'Mahony 77 71, Jonathan Yates 72 76

149 Stuart Grehan 75 74, Marco Iten 72 77, Alex Gleeson 69 80

150 Derek Power 76 74, William Russell 75 75, Robin Dawson 73 77, Gary Hurley 71 79

151 Andrew Keenan 76 75, Gavin Young 73 78

152 Chris Thursby 78 74, Nick Wildman 74 78

153 Ben Murray 78 75, Darragh O'Sullivan 77 76, Sean Flanagan 75 78

154 Alan Lowry 78 76, Declan Reidy 78 76

155 Craig Howie 80 75, James Lindsay 80 75, Gemma Batty 79 76, Cameron Massey 76 79

156 Jack Ryan 80 76, Joe Whitaker 77 79, Brian Doran 76 80, Ryan O'Doherty 75 81

157 Christopher Morgan 80 77, Stuart Patrick 78 79, Conor Nolan 77 80, Kyle McCarron 77 80

158 Matthew McClean 83 75, Jessica Ross 79 79, Ryan McKinstry 76 82

159 Enda Craddock 80 79, Ted Collins 76 83, Shane McGlynn 75 84, Timothy Jordan 73 86

160 Alastair McQuillan 80 80, Jonathan O'Driscoll 79 81, Andrew Stokes 76 84

161 Diarmuid O'Connor 83 78, Brad Johnson 77 84, Harry McHugh 76 85, Chris Johnston 75 86

162 Peter McKeever 82 80, James Wilson 82 80, Niall O'Connell 75 87

163 James Flesher 82 81, Stephen Rowland 80 83

164 Mark Morrissey 83 81, Gabriel Leacy 82 82

165 Colm Hughes 83 82, David Byrne 80 85

166 Jamie Austwicke 85 81, Kevin Holland 80 86

167 Andrew Bonham 81 86, Kevin Barry 79 88

168 Aaron D'Arcy 87 81, Owen O'Brien 85 83

171 Dylan O'Connor 89 82

172 Harry Bradshaw 89 83, Marcus Looby 85 87

174 Robert Monroe 90 84

169 Adrian Lyons 83 86, Peter Dolan 82 87, Michael Gielty 81 88

173 Mateo Crowley 83 90

178 Jack Alton 91 87, Conor Ringland 84 94

204 Aideen McGahon 99 105

NR Conor Ryan 84 NR, Thomas Conway 93 NR, Sean McLoughlin 99 NR,  Sam Devey NR 81, Conor McGowan NR 87