Beach
saves its best for 49er Classic
By Karl Peterson
On-line Forty-Niner
In
its best showing at a tournament this year,
the 49er men's golf team beat five Big West
Conference opponents and finished seventh
in the 12-team field.
The
Beach hosted the seventh annual 49er Collegiate
Classic at the Southern California Professional
Golfers' Association Champions Course last
Thursday and Friday in Calimesa.
Bobby
Powers of San Jose State won the individual
title, shooting a three-round score of 209--68,
72, 69. Long Beach State golfer James Logeman
finished 13 strokes behind Powers, tying
for 23rd.
 Finishing
after Logeman for the 49ers were Chris Gilley
in 27th, Torey Edwards in 31st, Ryan Plummer
in 35rd and Nick Seymour in 45th place.
Head
Coach Bob Livingstone was pleased with the
overall performance of the team but said
the team still must improve consistency
and eliminate sporadic high scoring holes
during rounds.
The
University of Arizona's junior varsity team
took the team title shooting 869--288, 298,
283. Although the Arizona team was named
a junior varsity squad, the team included
some of the school's top golfers.
North
Texas, San Jose State and UC Riverside rounded
out the top four, while the 49ers finished
22 strokes behind Arizona in seventh place.
Tournament
wins over conference opponents are important
to qualify for the playoffs, and the 49ers
beat conference foes UC Santa Barbara, Cal
Poly San Luis Obispo, University of the
Pacific, Idaho and Cal State Northridge.
Long
Beach State would normally host the tournament
at home course Virginia Country Club, but
because that course has just reopened after
two years of renovations club members were
wary of a tournament so soon and thus the
tournament was instead scheduled at the
SCPGA.
The
49ers will take the rest of November, December
and January off before resuming play Feb.
3 and 4 at the Ping/Arizona Intercollegiate
tournament in Tucson, Ariz.
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