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Wildcats claim 3rd straight SSU Invite title

The men's golf team celebrates its victory.

The Wildcats post with the championship trophy.

10/20/2009 4:16:57 PM

SANTA ROSA – The Chico State men’s golf team should start collecting checks from the members of the Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club any day now. After all, the Wildcats seem to own the course. A 2-under par 286 propelled the Wildcats to their third consecutive Sonoma State Invitational title Tuesday.

The Wildcats, who began Tuesday’s final round tied for second place, pulled away from the field behind Kyle Souza’s 3-under par 69 – which proved to be the day’s low round – and Eric Frazzetta’s 2-under par 70. The Wildcats also got a lift when Bobby Bucey aced the par-3, 146-yard sixth hole. Souza (70-69–139) finished the tournament in second place at 5-under par, just one stroke behind medalist Matthew Garcia of Academy of the Art. Frazzetta (71-70–141) finished in third place at 3-under par.

Eric Frazzetta finished in third place at 3-under par.

Chico State and Dixie State recorded the best two rounds of the tournament Tuesday – twin 286s – but Chico State’s 292 in rough conditions Monday left the Wildcats five shots clear of the second-place finishers at 2-over par. Saint Martin’s and opening-round leader Western Washington tied for third eight strokes behind the Wildcats.

Bucey (75-74–149) rode his hole-in-one to a 2-over par 74 Tuesday and joined teammate Sylvester Gama (76-73–149) in a five-way tie for 28th place at 5-over par. Brandon Harkins (79-74–153) moved up 10 slots into a tie for 49th place in the 73-player field.

The Wildcats, currently ranked No. 7 in the nation in the Golf World/Nike Coaches’ Poll and No. 6 by GolfStat, wrapped up quite a fall with their victory Tuesday. They also won last week’s InterWest Wildcat Classic, and prior to that, brought home consecutive third-place finishes in the first two

Bobby Bucey left his putter in the bag after a hole-in-one on the sixth hole.

tournaments of the season. They finished the fall campaign with a 207-8 mark against Division II competition, including 7-0 against the top-25.

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Wildcats of the Week

Kelly Clancey

Women's Track

There’s something about the annual Chico Multi that always brings out the best in heptathlete Kelly Clancey. For the second straight year, the junior from Modesto earned an NCAA Championships provisional bid in the heptathlon during the two-day Chico Multi, collecting 4,743 total points over the seven events, easily surpassing the 4,400 points needed to secure the provisional bid.

Clancey was the dominant athlete in the 12-person field, taking first place in four of the seven hepthatlon events. She took top honors in the high jump (5 feet, 3.25 inches), long jump (17 feet, 9.5 inches), 100-meter hurdles (15.42 seconds) and the 800-meter run (2 minutes, 20.25 second), while finishing second in the 200-meter dash (26.34 seconds), fourth in the shot put and sixth in the javelin throw.

Clancey, already well ahead of last season's schedule in which she scored a 4,400 in the Chico Multi and went on to post a career-best 4,811 at the CCAA Championships and advance to the NCAA Championships, will try to better her provisional mark March 24-25 at the California Multi, hosted by UC Berkeley.

Sylvester Gama

Men's Golf

Sylvester Gama carded three consecutive sub-par rounds and finished alone in second place at 7-under par at the Coyote Classic last Monday and Tuesday. Gama, competing as an individual, finished six strokes clear of third place in a standout performance that was bettered only by Cal State San Bernardino's Gene Webster, Jr.

Gama went 2-under in the opening round on the par-70 course at Arrowhead Country Club. He went 1-under in the afternoon. And on Tuesday, Gama's 66 was bettered only by Webster and matched his teammate Kyle Souza for the third lowest round of the tournament.

A 6-foot senior from Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara CC), Gama has now gone under par in eight of his 16 rounds of the 2009-10 season. His stroke average of 72.1 is second on the Wildcats as are his three top-five finishes.

Those efforts have made him easily the team's most improved player thus far this season. His stroke average was 75.3 last season and he had just one top-10 finish - an eighth-place finish at the CCAA Championships.

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