Men's golf finishes third at the Fresno State Lexus Classic

FRESNO, Calif. -- The BYU men's golf team shot a third-round score of 286, to finish in third place overall and 25-under-par at the 41st annual Fresno State Lexus Classic Saturday.

Colorado State captured the team title with a score of 281-271-279--831 (-33). San Diego claimed the second place spot at 285-272-277--834 (-30) and BYU finished in third place at 280-275-284--841 (-23).

"I was really pleased with the consistently of our team this weekend," head coach Bruce Brockbank said. "The tournament gave us a good idea of how good we can really be."

In his first tournament of the year, sophomore Clay Bingham tied for 16th place by going four-under-par and was the second best BYU finisher. Bingham's 16th place finish is the best of his college career (71-70-71--210).

The top finisher was sophomore Oscar Alvarez who carded 69-69-73--221 (-5) to tie for 10th place. Alvarez's first and second round scores of 69 tie his career low round record.

Juniors Greg Machtaler and Todd Miller finished tied for 19th and 21st respectively, at 71-74-68--213 (-3) and 71-69-74--214 (-2). Ron Harvey Jr. finished seven-over-par and freshman Jake Ellison was disqualified from the third round due to a scorecard issue.

Going into the final round Ellison was tied for sixth place 72-67--139 and with his third round score would have placed fifth and improved BYU's team finish to second place.

CSU's Nolan Martin won the tournament at 12-under-par with a score of 68 in all three rounds of play.

BYU will compete next on Oct. 20-21 at the Barona Collegiate Cup in San Diego, Calif.

FINAL RESULTS           Fresno St. Lexus Golf Classic
              Belmont C.C.             Fresno, CA
              Dates: 10/10 - 10/11     (Today:10-11-2003)
              Par:        72
              Yardage:  6503
Fin.   School                   Scores
   1   Colorado State Univ.     281  271  279    831       -33
   2   San Diego State U.       285  272  277    834       -30
   3   Brigham Young Univ.      280  275  286    841       -23
   4   Texas Tech Univ.         281  281  284    846       -18
   5   Denver, U. of            286  277  286    849       -15
   6   Texas El Paso, U. of     282  282  287    851       -13
   7   Fresno State             288  281  289    858        -6
   8   CSU-Northridge           292  290  281    863        -1
   9   Nevada, Univ. of         284  291  289    864         E
   10  Wyoming, U. of           292  284  293    869        +5
       Louisiana - Monroe       294  280  295    869        +5
   12  Pacific, U. of the       291  288  293    872        +8
   13  Long Beach State         294  287  293    874       +10
   14  Utah, Univ. of           304  283  288    875       +11
       San Jose State Univ.     292  285  298    875       +11
3       Brigham Young Univ.     280  275  286    841
T  7    Clay Bingham             71   70   69    210
T 10    Oscar Alvarez            69   69   73    211
T 19    Greg Machtaler           71   74   68    213
T 21    Todd Miller              71   69   74    214
T 60    Ron Harvey, Jr.          69   72   82    223
  DQ    Jake Ellison             72   67   DQ
Individual Results
Fin.   Name                   School       Scores
1   Nolan Martin           Col. St.      68   68   68    204  -12
2   Andrew Scott           SanDiegoSt    69   66   70    205  -11
3   Mark Warman            SanDiegoSt    72   68   66    206  -10
    Martin Laird           Col. St.      70   64   72    206  -10
5   Andrew Dresser         Texas Tech    68   72   69    209   -7
    Jimmy Cunningham       Denver        72   68   69    209   -7
7   Chris Baryla           UTEP          71   69   70    210   -6
    James Love             Denver        70   70   70    210   -6
    Casey Watabu           Nevada        69   71   70    210   -6
10  Pete Sisich            CSUN          72   69   70    211   -5
    Cory Segall            SanDiegoSt    74   70   67    211   -5
    James Allenby          UTEP          67   66   78    211   -5
    Jeremy Moreno          Fresno St.    71   68   72    211   -5
    Oscar Alvarez          BYU           69   69   73    211   -5
    Kevin McAlpine         Col. St.      74   68   69    211   -5
16  John Hayes             Col. St.      70   72   70    212   -4
    Clay Bingham           BYU           71   70   71    212   -4
    Bryant Reyes           San Jose S    71   69   72    212   -4
19  Greg Machtaler         BYU           71   74   68    213   -3
    Erik Stenman           Texas Tech    71   71   71    213   -3
21  Todd Miller            BYU           71   69   74    214   -2
    Garrett Clegg          Utah          75   70   69    214   -2
    William Haddrell       Texas Tech    73   68   73    214   -2
    Bryan Vahlberg         ULM           72   72   70    214   -2
    Eric Baily             Wyoming       74   68   72    214   -2
    Ryan Ritter            Long Beach    72   68   74    214   -2