Oct. 30, 2006

Simi Valley, California - The Pacific golf team is in sixth place after 36-holes at the Bill Cullum Invitational. Senior Thomas Petersson fired a first-round 67 on Monday, October 30 to lift the Tigers to an opening day 295-298=593.

Petersson followed up his opening round 67 with a two-over 74 at the 6,771-yard Wood Ranch Golf Course. The Tigers' 593 puts their team total at +17, just four strokes off of third place.

Junior A.J. Hohn opened with a 74 and 76 to sit in 31st place while sophomore Adam Beckman fired rounds of 76-75 and freshman Bayhaan Lakdawala carded an 80-73=153; currently in a tie for 38th. Junior Chris Rosenau shot a 78-80.

"Thomas played well today and if we can get some guys to rebound and have a solid final round we'll be right in the mix," said head coach Brandon Goethals. "We're going to go out and keep learning and do some things better than we did today."

PACIFIC SCORING 6TH - PACIFIC TIGERS 295-298=593 T3. Thomas Petersson 67-74=141 T31. A.J. Hohn 74-76=150 T38. Adam Beckman 76-75=151 T44. Bayhaan Lakdawala 80-73=153 T65. Chris Rosenau 78-80=156

TEAM SCORING 1 Loyola Marymount U. 292 290 582 +6 2 Cal Poly 295 288 583 +7 3 UC-Santa Barbara 294 295 589 +13 4 Idaho State Univ. 290 300 590 +14 5 Southern Utah Univ. 292 299 591 +15 6 Pacific, U. of the 295 298 593 +17 7 Portland, U. of 303 291 594 +18 8 Sacramento State 302 293 595 +19 9 Gonzaga University 294 302 596 +20 10 CSU-Northridge 299 304 603 +27 11 UC - Riverside 304 302 606 +30 12 Utah Valley State 309 302 611 +35 13 Utah State Univ. 318 313 631 +55 14 The Master's College 326 324 650 +74

INDIVIDUAL SCORING 1 Brian Locke Loyola-Mar 70 69 139 -5 2 *Karl Katnik Long Beach 70 70 140 -4 3 Dave Lewinski Cal Poly 74 67 141 -3 Thomas Petersson Pacific 67 74 141 -3 5 Kevin Beavers Portland 73 69 142 -2 6 Eric Nilsson So. Utah 71 72 143 -1 Joe Lopez CSUN 72 71 143 -1 Grant Norton Sac State 74 69 143 -1 9 Luis Kim CSUN 71 73 144 E Jason D'Amore Loyola-Mar 71 73 144 E Geoff Gonzalez Cal Poly 70 74 144 E Dylan Meyer Idaho St. 72 72 144 E 13 Brycen Wagner Cal Poly 76 69 145 +1 Marty Melcher UC-SaBarba 75 70 145 +1 15 Brian Hollenbeck UC-SaBarba 71 75 146 +2 16 Andrew Cortez UC-Rvrside 76 71 147 +3 Nic Van Vuuren UVSC 76 71 147 +3 Terrence Macatangay Portland 76 71 147 +3 Stevan Peters Idaho St. 71 76 147 +3 Andrew Gunson UC-SaBarba 74 73 147 +3 *Nate Page So. Utah 75 72 147 +3