Men's Golf Concludes Regular Season at Stanford
May 4, 1999
Corvallis, Ore. - SCHEDULE: The Oregon State University men's golf team concludes its 1998-99 regular season May 7-8 at the U.S. Intercollegiate in Stanford, Cal. The tournament will be conducted at the Stanford Golf Course, with par being 71. Thirty-six holes will be played the first day, with an additional 18 Saturday.
THE TEAM: Oregon State Head Coach Mike Ketcham has announced the following five players will be competing at the U.S. Intercollegiate:
John Lepak, Fr., La Habra Heights, CA -- 72.6 avg. Dustin Wayne, Jr., Alameda, CA -- 74.0 Eric Dahm, Jr., Tualatin, OR -- 74.5 Justin Johnson, Sr., Castro Valley, CA -- 75.6 Anthony Arvidson, So., Beaverton, OR -- 74.4THE FIELD: Joining Oregon State in the field is No. 19 BYU, No. 24 California, Long Beach State, UC Irvine, Nevada, New Mexico State, Cal-State Northridge, No. 20 Oregon, Pacific, Pepperdine, Sacramento State, USF, San Jose State, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, No. 12 Washington and Washington State.
SUB-PAR: Oregon State players have a combined 30 rounds under par. John Lepak leads the team with 12 sub-par rounds, followed by Dustin Wayne with nine, Anthony Arvidson with five, and Eric Dahm and Justin Johnson with two. Last year's team shot 25 rounds under par for the entire season.
LAST YEAR: Oregon State struggled at the U.S. Intercollegiate last year and finished 20th at 917. Eric Fiskum was the low scorer for the Beavers, tied for 52nd at 228. Justin Johnson tied for 61st at 230, Anthony Arvidson tied for 69th at 232, and Eric Dahm tied for 89th at 237.
LEPAK ALL-PAC-10/FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: True-freshman John Lepak was named to the Pacific-10 Conference First Team and conference Freshman of the Year it was announced last week. Lepak is only the second player in OSU history to earn first team Pac-10 honors, and the first to be named Freshman of the Year.
KETCHAM ON THE TEAM: The following are comments from Head Coach Mike Ketcham: "We are disappointed in the way we played at last week's Pac-10 Championships, so this is an important event for us. This tournament gives us an opportunity to return to playing well and getting us going in a positive way before we received a probable NCAA Regional invitation. The Stanford Golf Course is a good venue for our team, it's a big and long course and one where we have typically played well in the past."
KETCHAM ON THE SEASON: "We haven't had a great year, but we have made improvements along the way. Overall, I characterize the season as decent and we have played better as the season as progressed. Obviously we had a setback last week at the Pac-10 Championships, but this team is resilient and we are ready to get back after it. The team we have for this week's tournament is the one that is going to be playing the rest of the events. I'll make no bones about it, we need Anthony Arvidson to step up. I don't know if it's the dreaded sophomore jinx with Anthony, but if we get him going, we will be a very dangerous team."
