Feb. 24, 2009

Thousand Oaks, California - A stellar first day, playing tough against the nation's top teams, wasn't enough for the Tigers to hold on to a top ten finish at the USC Collegiate. Pacific managed a final round 305, 15-shots worse than their opening round Monday at North Ranch Country Club.

A final round 75 by Charlie Van Sicklen and 76 by TJ Bordeaux weren't nearly enough for the Tigers to stay competitive against top ranked USC, UCLA and Washington; teams the Tigers had leads on coming into Tuesday. Bordeaux finished in 30th place with a 54-hole score of 220 while both Kucich and Lakdawala posted final round scores of 77.

"We played tough this week," said head coach Brandon Goethals. "The end result shows a slightly different story but this team is much, much better. Trust me on that. We didn't completely control our ball out there and when you're playing against the best in the country you have to do that if you want to win."

Stanford stormed back to take the team title over Brigham Young at 839 while Cal finished third with host USC right behind at fourth.

11 Pacific, U of

+40 F 290 297 305 892 T30 T.J. Bordeaux

+7 F 72 72 76 220 T38 Patrick Kucich

+9 F 73 72 77 222 56 Bayhaan Lakdawala

+14 F 72 78 77 227 T60 Charles Van Sicklen

+16 F 76 78 75 229 T67 Alex Johnson

+18 F 73 75 83 231

1 7 Stanford University

-13 F -5 284 276 279 839 2 Brigham Young Univ.

-3 F +3 275 287 287 849 3 29 California, U. of

+6 F +3 285 286 287 858 4 4 Southern California

+7 F -9 292 292 275 859 5 19 UCLA

+15 F +4 292 287 288 867 6 39 Pepperdine

+20 F +5 288 295 289 872 T7 28 San Diego State

+26 F +7 294 293 291 878 T7 Fresno State

+26 F +6 288 300 290 878 9 UC-Irvine

+30 F +19 284 295 303 882 10 9 Washington

+31 F +19 288 292 303 883 11 Pacific, U of

+40 F +21 290 297 305 892 12 Oregon State U.

+42 F +14 300 296 298 894 13 Loyola Marymount U.

+48 F +18 299 299 302 900