Husky Golfers Move Up to 3rd NCAA Regional
May 17, 2002
Albuquerque, NM -
2nd Round Team Scoring
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The 14-ranked Washington men's golf team moved up three spots to third place after 36 holes of play at the NCAA West Regional at New Mexico's Championship Course. The Huskies need to finish in the top 10 of the event to advance to the NCAA Championships May 30-June 2 at Ohio State. The final round is scheduled for Saturday.
Only nine strokes separate the top 11 teams in the tournament after two days of play.
Washington shot 293 on Friday for a two-day total of 8-over 584. UNLV leads the field at 582 while Fresno State is second at 583. Pacific and Pepperdine are currently tied for 10th at 589.
The Huskies were led Friday by junior Conner Robbins (Bremerton) who turned in a career best score of 67. That tied Arizona's Ricky Barnes, the tournament leader, for the low round at the event. Robbins score was 21 strokes better than his first round effort, that included a 10 on one par 4. Robbins round included eight birdies and three bogies. All of his birdies came over a stretch of 11 holes.
"I was impressed that Conner came back with that type of effort," said Husky coach Matt Thurmond. "This tournament is so tight, that effort really kept us in it today. This course is playing really hard and there are a lot of really good teams here. Our guys are just doing a great job of hanging around. I'm excited that we are just two strokes out of the lead, but you have to keep in mind that we are just five strokes from 10th place."
The Huskies Dan Potter (Coeur d'Alene) is 22nd overall at 146 after shooting 74 on Friday. Brock Mackenzie (Yakima) carded a 76 to fall back to 36th at 148. John Robertson (Olympia) is 60th at 150 while Corey Prugh (Spokane) is 97th at 154. Despite his impressive round. Robbins only moved up to 105 with a 36-hole score of 155.
Barnes owns a five-shot lead for medalist honors at 137. Four players are tied for second at 142.
NCAA West Regional Championships
New Mexico Golf Course
Albuquerque, NM
Par 72, 7,368 yards
Team Results
1 UNLV 582 2 Fresno State 583 3 Washington 584 4 Arizona 585 4 San Diego State 585 6 Minnesota 588 6 New Mexico 588 6 Texas 588 6 UCLA 588 10 Pacific 589 10 Pepperdine 589 12 Nevada 592 12 Oregon 592 14 Ohio State 593 15 California 594 16 Texas Tech 595 17 Southern California 597 18 Washington State 598 19 Stanford 600 20 Brigham Young 602 21 Arizona State 606 22 Illinois State 607 23 Colorado State 610 24 UC-Irvine 613 25 Detroit Mercy 614 26 IU-Purdue-Indy 626 27 Central Conn. St. 629
Washington Scores
22 Dan Potter 146 36 Brock Mackenzie 148 60 John Robertson 150 97 Corey Prugh 154 105 Conner Robbins 155
Individual Leaders
1 Jason Hartwick, Texas 68 1 Ricky Barnes, Arizona 137 2 Jonathon Echols, Fresno State 142 2 Jason Hartwick, Texas 142 2 Justin Smith, Minnesota 142 2 Mark Warman, San Diego State 142 6 Aaron Byers, Oregon 143 6 Zach Doran, Ohio State 143 6 Ben Scribner, Pacific 143 6 Nick Watney, Fresno State 143 10 Jason Allred, Pepperdine 144 10 John Merrick, UCLA 144 10 Peter Tomasul, California 144
