PacWest champion Hawaii Hilo, along with Dominican and Vanguard, have qualified for the NCAA regionals (photo by Nicholas Schultz).
PacWest champion Hawaii Hilo, along with Dominican and Vanguard, have qualified for the NCAA regionals (photo by Nicholas Schultz).

Men's Golf

3 PacWest Squads Selected for Stockton

Hawaii Hilo, Vanguard and Dominican make the grade for the NCAA Division II West Regional Championships in Stockton. HPU's Kyle Krupp and Jessup's Jacobus Brakkee qualify as individuals.

INDIANAPOLIS--Hawai`i Hilo, Dominican and Vanguard will continue their men's golf seasons at the NCAA South Central/West Region tournament, May 7-9 in Stockton, Calif.

That trio of PacWest schools will join ten total squads from the West Region and ten more from the South Central. Additionally, four individual players from each region, not on those 20 teams, were picked as well. Hawaii Paciic's Kyle Krupp and Jessup's Jacobus Brakkee are part of that selection,

The Vulcans earned the PacWest's automatic berth into the tournament by winning the PacWest title last week. The Lions and Penguins earned at-large berths, selected by a committee of coaches and administrators in the west, and then finalized by the NCAA national committee. 

At a minimum, the top three teams and the top two student-athletes not with a team from each regional will advance to the finals, May 18–22 at the Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nevada. The remaining eight team berths will be allocated based on the regions represented in the prior year’s head-to-head medal play portion of the championships, with the maximum number of teams from a given region capped at seven. The finals will be hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority:

Here is the list of teams competing at the championships in Stockton next week.
 

NCAA West Region Participants

  1. Western Washington
  2. Chico State*
  3. Cal State East Bay
  4. Hawaii Hilo*
  5. Cal State San Bernardino
  6. Simon Fraser
  7. Cal State Monterey Bay
  8. Cal State San Marcos
  9. Dominican (California)
  10. Vanguard

Individuals:

  1. Kyle Krupp, Hawaii Pacific
  2. Rasmus Tamker, Saint Martin’s
  3. Jacobus Brakkee, Jessup
  4. Troy Song, Cal State Dominguez Hills

NCAA South Central Region Participants

  1. West Texas A&M
  2. Colorado State University Pueblo
  3. Colorado Mesa [Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference]
  4. St. Mary’s (Texas)
  5. The University of Texas Permian Basin
  6. Dallas Baptist University
  7. Cameron [Lone Star Conference]
  8. The University of Texas at Tyler
  9. Colorado Christian
  10. Midwestern State

Individuals:

  1. Traejan Andrews, Fort Lewis
  2. Juan Monckeberg, Texas A&M International
  3. Liam Allan, Colorado School of Mines
  4. Lukas Taggart, Colorado School of Mines