James Allenby Earns All-Conference Honors
Fairfax, Calif. – Led by senior , who earned first-team All Pac-10 Conference honors, the Oregon State men’s golf team finished in eighth place, ahead of rivals Oregon and Washington State, at the 2008 Pac-10 Championships completed on Wednesday.
Allenby, who is having one of the best years in Oregon State golf history, is the first Beaver to earn all-conference honors since Anthony Arvidson did it in 2001.
“ had a great tournament. He played four great rounds and was competing for the individual title the whole way,” head coach said.
Allenby finished tied for eighth place overall and shot a 285 (68-71-73-73) and is on pace to break the Oregon State single season scoring average record, which he set last year. He is also on pace to set the all-time career score average as well and has finished in the top-10 seven times this season.
The Beavers came out strong in the first round on Monday reaching as high as second place and were tied for fifth going into the second round.
“We started off playing well and we were taking advantage of the par fives and then the wind picked up and the golf course got tough,” Watts said. “We struggled the rest of the way and the 20-30 mph winds made it difficult to score.”
One of the highlights for the Beavers at the championship came in the second round when hit his first career hole-in-one on the 11th hole despite a tough pin position.
“He [Velasquez] looked at me and said, ‘I like nine,’” Watts said. “I told him that I did too and he hit a great shot and it hit the green and it looked like it was going in. I must have said that four times while it was rolling. It was his first ace ever and it was great for it to come in competition at the Pac-10 Championship.”
Velasquez finished tied for 11th place with a 2-over 286 (71-71-74-69) and had the best final round out of any Oregon State player.
and both finished at 13-over at 297. and finished 15- and 25-over, respectively.
The Beavers will learn their post-season fate as the team awaits the NCAA West Regional selections, to be made on Monday, May 5.
Team Leaderboard
T1. Arizona State U. – (354-361-356-364)1435
T1. Southern California – (338-374-357-366) 1435
3. California, U. of – (346-362-371-359) 1438
4. UCLA – (348-361-372-358) 1439
5. Stanford University – (350-357-380-357) 1444
6. Arizona, U. of – (354-360-381-351) 1446
7. Washington, U. of – (357-367-370-365) 1459
8. Oregon State U. – (354-366-374-367) 1461
9. Oregon, U. of – (359-363-374-366) 1462
10. Washington State U. – (369-380-377-376) 1502
Individual Leaderboard
T1. Creighton Honeck, Arizona – (69-69-72-71) 281
T1. Kevin Chappell, UCLA – (70-68-71-72) 281
T3. George Gandranata, California – (69-70-71-73) 283
T3. James Byrne, Arizona St – (71-72-67-73) 283
T3. Rob Grube, Stanford – (70-68-72-73) 283
8. Oregon State U. – (354-366-374-367) 1461 – Individual Results
T8. – (68-71-73-73) 285
T11. – (71-72-74-69) 286
T40. – (72-75-78-72) 297
T40. – (69-78-75-75) 297
T47. – (76-71-74-78) 299
T57. – (74-77-79-79) 309
