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University of North Carolina Athletics
Three Tar Heels Selected To Men's Golf All-ACC Team
May 6, 2003 | Men's Golf
May 6, 2003
Chapel Hill, N.C. - Three University of North Carolina golfers have been named to the 2003 All-Atlantic Coast Conference team as selected by a vote of the league's nine head coaches. Junior Dustin Bray earned all-conference honors for the third consecutive year while junior Richard Treis, this year's ACC Champion, and senior Ramon Bescansa received All-ACC accolades for the first time.
Clemson, this year's ACC championship team, placed four players on the 13-man squad - senior D.J. Trahan, juniors Matt Hendrix and Gregg Jones and sophomore Jack Ferguson. Like Carolina, Wake Forest had three representatives - seniors Brent Wanner and Chad Wilfong and junior Bill Haas. Georgia Tech is represented by a pair of selections - senior Troy Matteson and sophomore Nicholas Thompson while Justin Walters from NC State rounds out the all-conference squad.
Wake Forest's Haas was named the ACC Player of the Year while Duke's Ryan Blaum was selected Rookie of the Year and Larry Penley from Clemson received Coach of the Year accolades for the fifth time in his career.
Carolina's Bray, from Asheboro, N.C., has won three tournaments this year for four career victories. After winning the ACC Championship last year, this year he won The International Collegiate, tied for individual medalist honors at The Ridges Intercollegiate and won the Seminole Intercollegiate. A semifinalist at the 2002 U.S. Amateur, Bray posted nine top-20 finishes in Carolina's 10 events this year, including a tie for ninth place at the ACC Championship. He boasts the team's lowest scoring average of 70.86.
Treis, from Baden-Baden, Germany, has carded four top-10 finishes in Carolina's seven tournaments this spring. In addition to winning the ACC Championship, he tied for third place at The Intercollegiate and the Seminole Intercollegiate and tied for sixth place at the Schenkel-E-Z-Go Invitational.
escansa, from Santiago, Spain, picked up the first victory of his collegiate career this spring by winning the Birkdale Collegiate Classic. Bescansa posted six top-30 finishes this year, including a tie for seventh place at the ACC Championship. Along with teammate Bray, he tied for sixth place at last fall's Western Refining Golf Classic where he was one of 24 collegiate golfers selected to participate.
The Tar Heels travel to Manhattan, Kansas, May 15-17, to play in the NCAA Central Regional. The 54-hole event will be played at Colbert Hills Golf Course which features a par 72, 7,525-yard layout.
