University of Houston Athletics
Golf Ready to Go at NCAA Central Regional
5/15/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
May 15, 2002
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The University of Houston golf teams joins 26 other teams when first-round play at the NCAA Central Regional gets underway Thursday , and there aren't many teams hotter than the Cougars now.
UH, competing in its sixth straight NCAA Regional as a team, enters the postseason after back-to-back second-place finishes at the Conference USA Championships on April 22-24 and at the Maxwell Intercollegiate on May 11-12.
Those finishes marked the sixth and seventh top-10 finishes for the Cougars this season and their fifth top-10 finish in their last six events.
The NCAA Central Regional, to be played at Pleasant Valley Golf Course, features TCU, North Carolina State, Oklahoma State, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, Toledo, Purdue, Lamar, Baylor, Alabama, LSU, Tulsa, Kansas, SMU, Illinois, Missouri, Colorado, Texas-Arlington, Northwestern, Arkansas State, Maryland, St. John's, Austin Peay, Princeton, Army and Jackson State.
Gibby Martins (Texas-San Antonio), John Holmes (Kentucky), Eric Herbert (Ohio), David Jenkins (Southwest Missouri State), Adrian Mork (McNeese State) and Aaron Watkins (Kansas State) were invited to the NCAA Regional as individuals.
The top 10 teams from each of the three NCAA Regionals as well as the top two individuals not competing on those teams move on to the NCAA Championships on May 29-June 1 at the Scarlet Course in Columbus, Ohio.
UH , which received a No. 16 seed in the Regional, became the second Cougar team to advance to the NCAA postseason this year.
At The Maxwell Intercollegiate, junior Brett Callas became the first Cougar to earn medalist honors this season by capturing the individual championship. The Huffman, Texas, native fired a career-best 68 in the second round and followed that one day later with an even better round of 67 to win the event by two strokes.
This season, Callas is third on the squad with a 74.1 scoring average.
Simon Robinson, Kevin Hermis, Brad McIntosh and Scott Ferguson join Callas in competing at the Regional. Robinson, a 2002 All-Conference USA and C-USA All-Tournament Team honoree, leads the Cougars with a 72.9 scoring average, nearly a stroke better than McIntosh's 73.7 average.
Hermis fired a Cougar season-best round with a 66 in the first round of the U.S. Collegiate Championships on April 5-7, while Ferguson shot a 67 in the final round at the Las Vegas Collegiate on March 8-10.
