Menās golf finishes Top 10

The UA menās golf team earned its fifth-straight Top-10 NCAA finish this week, tying with Tulsa for ninth place overall at 14-over par.

Honorable mention All-American Ricky Barnes, the nationās Preseason Player of the Year, finished 17th in individual competition and was UAās top scorer, shooting a 1-under 283 for the tournament.

Last week, Barnes qualified for the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black in N.Y., the second time he will participate in the tournament.

Fellow Wildcat and Honorable Mention All-American Chris Nallen also finished in the top-25, finishing at even par for the tournament.

Minnesota won the tournament with a final score of 1134, 2-under par. Georgia Techās Troy Matteson captured the individual title, shooting an 8-under 276.

Golfer Myerscough going global

Junior golfer Laura Myerscough was selected last week to join the U.S. team in the 2002 Curtis Cup match against Great Britain and Ireland.

It will be the second time the Honorable Mention All-American will represent her country in an international tournament after she was a member of the U.S. team in the 2000 Womenās World Amateur Championships.

ćIām really honored to be named to the Curtis Cup team. Iāve made it a point to be involved in major amateur golf competitions, and being on the Curtis Cup team was a long-term goal of mine,ä Myerscough said.

Myerscough ended the 2002 season at the NCAA Championships with her strongest performance of the year. She carded a 2-under 286 for the four-day tournament, good for a seventh-place finish.

UA ace taken in draft

Sean Rierson, a draft eligible sophomore, was selected last week in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft in the 26th round by the San Francisco Giants.

Rierson was able to enter the draft because he was over the minimum age of 21. This is the same rule that allowed former UA pitcher Ben Diggins to be drafted three seasons ago.

Rierson (7-5, 4.69 ERA), a right-handed pitcher who has two years of collegiate eligibility remaining, recently completed the 2002 season as Arizonaās leader in wins (7) and innings pitched (117.0).

The right-handerās 2.00 walks per nine innings in 2002 ranks sixth lowest in school history.

Rierson was not previously drafted out of Scottsdaleās Chaparral High School in 2001.

He becomes the third player off the 2002 roster to be selected in the draft. Seniors Chris Cunningham and Brad Hassey were selected in the 13th and 19th rounds on the first day of the draft.