Another day and another match rally later, the fate of Oregon men’s golf’s season once again fell on Sulman Raza and his putter.

This time, against top-seed Texas in the NCAA Championships match finals at Eugene Country Club on June 1, 18 holes wasn’t enough to decide the match between Raza and Texas’ Taylor Funk. Both players battled into a three-hole, sudden-death playoff.

Ultimately, Raza prevailed over Funk by dropping a six-foot birdie putt on the 10th green. The win gave Oregon a 3-2 victory over Texas as well as its first national championship in program history.

The moment was surreal for both Raza and head coach Casey Martin, who walked the course with Raza during the latter stages of the round. Not only was Raza playing the highest-stakes match of his life against Funk, he was doing it in front of a crowd of several hundred, many of whom were either Oregon fans or knew Raza when he was a state champion golfer at South Eugene High.

The crowd, which rivaled few others at previous college golf matches, according to Martin, sprinted back and forth between the 10th and 18th holes, where the playoff alternated. When Raza and Funk approached each green of the playoff, fans ducked under ropes and watched intently from the fairway.

“Just having everybody rushing the green, circling the fairway, it felt like a movie,” Raza said.

Raza had a golden opportunity to put the match away on the first hole of the playoff, but missed his putt just right of the hole.

Then, going back to 18 on the next hole, Raza’s approach shot landed 20-25 feet from the pin, while Funk landed within five. Texas was one putt away from snatching the championship out of Oregon’s control. But Funk misread the putt, and it veered right of the hole.

Raza got the rare opportunity of playing the 10th twice in the span of three holes. Consider it a mulligan.

This time, he made the putt from the same distance he was unable to the first time, resulting in his teammates swarming him moments later.

Quack! Quack! Quack! THAT'S how you win an #NCAAGolf National Championship! #NCAAGolfhttps://t.co/xfmY8BNt7d

— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) June 2, 2016

“That pile we got into on the last green with Sulman is something I’ll never forget,” Aaron Wise said. “It was just raw emotion.”

In bizarre fashion, Oregon got its first point of the match before either team teed off. Beau Hossler, who injured his shoulder late in Texas’ semifinal match against USC Tuesday, May 31, was unable to play his match against Ducks senior Zach Foushee. Texas was forced to forfeit the match and the point, which also meant Foushee couldn’t play.

“I was obviously bummed,” Foushee said. “I mean, it’s my senior year … But a point for the Ducks got us here, so I’m happy it ended the way it did.”

Freshman Edwin Yi continued his steep freshman year trajectory, giving the Ducks their first earned point of the afternoon. Yi jumped to a three-hole lead on the back nine before taking down Gavin Hall 4&3. He flirted with a hole-in-one on the par-four, 350-yard 8th hole, driving a shot right down the middle of the green that eventually went long.

“That kid just had a confidence and swag that I hadn’t seen before,” Oregon assistant coach Van Williams said.

Then there was Wise, playing his last round for Oregon. Texas sophomore Scottie Scheffler pushed Wise throughout, jumping out to an early lead on the third hole that he never gave up. The two battled through 15 holes, but Scheffler ultimately took the match 4&3.

Oregon teammates rush the green to celebrate their winning of the NCAA Division 1 Championship. The Oregon Ducks play in the final round of the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships at the Eugene Country Club in Eugene, Oregon on June 1, 2016. (Samuel Marshall/Emerald)

Wise’s week included an individual and team championship, both of which give him plenty of exposure as he begins playing the PGA Canada Mackenzie Tour in June.

“This young man is going to be playing a lot of golf for a long time, and I can’t wait to watch him,” Martin said. “I’m bummed he’s leaving, but he needs to go.”

Thomas Lim, playing in the last match of the finals against Doug Ghim, had one of his better outings of the week, but ultimately Ghim evened the match 2-2 for Texas.

For Martin and the Ducks, this championship was the culmination of a year and half of high expectations set on them. From the time Eugene Country Club won the host bid in the fall of 2014 to NCAA Regionals earlier in May, pressure was a central topic of conversation for the Ducks.

“It was real and it was significant, but it also galvanizes everybody and gets you focused because it’s like, we’ve got to perform,” Martin said.

The home course advantage certainly played a factor in Oregon’s win. But playing a deep Texas team, even without Hossler, still presented the Ducks their biggest challenge of the season. And they delivered.

“We didn’t lose this golf tournament. They won it,” Fields said. “I’m excited for them.”

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For the first time in a long time, Oregon men’s golf didn’t need Aaron Wise to put the team on his back.

Instead, redshirt junior Sulman Raza clinched Oregon’s spot in the the NCAA Championships team finals against top-seeded Texas after he sunk a par putt on the 18th hole to beat Illinois senior Charlie Danielson.

This came after Raza, a South Eugene High graduate playing in front of countless friends and family members, defeated another elite golfer, LSU freshman Sam Burns, in match play quarterfinals Tuesday morning. Oregon eventually knocked off defending-champion LSU 3-1-1 before defeating No. 2 seed Illinois 3-2 in the afternoon.

“It’s a good feeling when you can go out and take down two of the best players on LSU and Illinois,” Raza said. “Sam and Charlie are incredible players.”

The match between Raza and Danielson, the 2016 Big Ten Player of the Year, became dicey late in the back nine. Raza, similar to Wise yesterday, left his tee shot on the par-three 16th short into the water hazard. Raza double bogeyed the hole, and suddenly the match was all square.

On 17, Raza bogeyed but also benefited from Danielson’s double bogey, which gave Raza a one-stroke lead.

Then, approaching the 18th green, Raza landed in the bunker short right of the green, while Danielson positioned himself well on the green for a birdie attempt. Raza chipped out of the bunker, and his ball rolled back a few feet down the slope towards the pin.

Yet Danielson still had a chance to win it. Playing left to right, Danielson’s putt had the right line and appeared to be halfway down, but spun around the rim of the hole and out. Facing the biggest par putt of his life, Raza calmly stepped up to his shot and nailed it.

.@GoDucks! Go crazy! @OregonMGolf is in the #NCAAGolf championship match thanks to this winning putt by Sulman Razahttps://t.co/sLcqefMFPK

— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) June 1, 2016

“[Head coach Casey Martin] said, ‘Back of the cup. Trust everything you’ve worked on the last four years of your life,’” Raza said. “To see that ball drop was a really good feeling.”

Had Raza missed the putt, Oregon would’ve had to depend on its individual national champion, Wise, who trailed Dylan Meyer by one stroke going into the 18th hole.

“My focus today was just to get this team to have a chance to win a national title tomorrow. I didn’t care how it was done,” Wise said. “That was one of the best feelings I’ve ever had, to sit on the fairway and just watch, instead of having to do it myself.”

The Ducks got their first point of the afternoon match when Edwin Yi jumped out to a huge lead against Edoardo Lipparelli of Illinois, and eventually won by a whopping five strokes.

Senior Zach Foushee, playing in his last college tournament for Oregon, followed suit with a five-stroke win over Nick Hardy.

“It was tremendous,” Martin said. “Just amazing for [Zach] as a senior to be able to do this. Edwin had one of the best shots to close out that match… Just special times.”

Thomas Detry gave Illinois its first point of the match, beating Thomas Lim by five strokes. Lim, who has battled flu-like symptoms the last few days, said afterwards that he still isn’t feeling 100 percent. Having to play a two-round, 36-hole doubleheader Tuesday made it that much tougher for him.

“It was a grind,” Lim said. “I made it through the first match, but the second match was a death march for me.”

Oregon faces a Texas squad that comfortably won its semifinal match against USC 4-1, but didn’t leave the day unscathed. The Longhorns’ best golfer and no. 4-ranked world amateur Beau Hossler injured his left shoulder while swinging on the par-four 17th.

The injury left him unable to swing with a wedge, so Hossler was forced to putt out of a bunker on his next shot. Remarkably, he salvaged par on the hole, defeating USC’s Andrew Levitt and clinching the win for his team in the process.

Despite the injury, Texas head coach John Fields, on the Golf Channel pairings show following the end of play, selected Hossler to play the No. 3 match against Foushee. Hossler’s status, however, isn’t set in stone.

“With the pairings and this, I haven’t had a chance to sit down and talk with anybody,” Fields said. “I know we’ll do the right thing for our student athlete. We’ll come out firing tomorrow, one way or another.”

If Hossler is unable to play Wednesday, Texas would have to forfeit the match.

Hossler didn’t comment on the nature of his shoulder injury, but said afterwards, “Obviously there’s some pain, but I’m gonna be fine.”

The matchup is a rematch of the 2012 NCAA Championships match play semifinals when Texas, led by then-freshman and current No. 2-ranked professional Jordan Spieth, knocked off Oregon 3-2 and went on to beat Alabama in the championship round. Four years later, the two teams are entirely different, but the talent and depth of Texas remains the same.

“Texas is unbelievable,” Martin said. “All those kids were top ranked in junior golf, and they’re all top ranked guys now. They’ve had an incredible tradition.”

The final round between Oregon and Texas starts Wednesday afternoon when Yi tees off against Texas’ Gavin Hall at 2:10 p.m. The rest of the pairings go as follows:

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— Ryan Lavner (@RyanLavnerGC) June 1, 2016

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For the first time in its history, Oregon men’s golf has an individual national champion.

Oregon sophomore Aaron Wise won the stroke play portion of the 2016 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships at the Eugene Country Club Monday, May 30, finishing the four-round tournament five-under 275 — two strokes better than USC’s Rico Hoey (-3).

In his last collegiate tournament before turning professional, Wise was exceptional. His performance included a six-under third round on Sunday, May 29 that set him apart from the rest of the field. Wise also became the first player to win on his home course since Wake Forest’s Gary Hallberg did so in 1979.

Wise entered Monday four strokes ahead of second place, but, the back nine wasn’t as kind to Wise as it was Sunday when he birdied holes 13 through 16. Wise first double-bogeyed the par-four 12th hole, before bouncing back with three straight par holes.

Then, hitting into the wind on the 205-yard, par-three 16th — a hole he nearly made ace on Sunday — Wise shanked his tee shot into the large water hazard in front of the green. The shot cost him a penalty stroke, and he eventually two-putted another double bogey.

All of a sudden, Wise’s once-comfortable lead had evaporated into a tie with Vanderbilt’s Matthias Schwab at four-under.

“I knew I just let everybody back into it at that point,” Wise said. “I had to start playing some real golf. I kind of put it in neutral there, and you can’t do that at Eugene Country Club. It’s too hard.”

As he approached the 17th tee, Wise turned to Oregon assistant Van Williams, who walked every hole with Wise during match play.

“He looked me in the eye, put his fist up and said, ‘Let’s do this,’ ” Williams said.

Wise crushed his 17th tee shot, then easily cleared the bunker on his approach shot and landed on the back of the green. With the individual title on the line and Oregon’s overall team score on his shoulders, Wise confidently sized up the shot.

“Walking up the green, he looked at me and said, ‘I’m gonna make this,’ ” Williams said. “All I can do is encourage him and say, ‘Yup.’ ”

Wise sunk the 15-foot putt for birdie, pumping his fist and mouthing the words “let’s go,” before a crowd of a couple hundred people. His birdie coincided with Schwab dropping a stroke after bogeying the 12th hole. Wise reclaimed his two-stroke lead, and this time, he didn’t need a bounce back shot to keep it.

“Aaron’s put this team on his back all year and he solidified it today,” Oregon head coach Casey Martin said.

Oregon sophomore Aaron Wise greets USC junior Rico Hoey, who finished second to Wise in the individual competition. The Oregon Ducks play in the fourth round of the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships at the Eugene Country Club in Eugene, Oregon on May 30, 2016. (Adam Eberhardt/Emerald)

After Oregon finished, Hoey and Lee McCoy of Georgia still had a chance to jump Wise, but neither golfer was able to. Hoey birdied 15 before settling for par on holes 16 through 18.

Despite shooting seven-over as a team Monday, Oregon slipped only two spots, from fourth to sixth, which was good enough to qualify for the eight-team match play portion of NCAA Championships.

Sulman Raza provided the biggest turnaround for the Ducks, improving on a nine-over third round to shoot even par Monday. Raza could have shot even lower had it not been for three straight bogeys to end the round.

Zach Foushee (+2) maintained a steady string of performances following a five-over first round on Friday.

Edwin Yi (+4) recovered from a 10-over third round, recording another eagle on the front nine and sinking two birdies.

Thomas Lim (+5) shot par on eight of his first nine holes, but fell victim to a challenging back nine with two bogeys and one double bogey.

After all teams finished Friday, Oregon learned it will play defending national champion LSU in the match play quarterfinals. The Ducks have little familiarity with the SEC team due to the geographic distance between the two schools.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for them and their coach [Chuck Winstead],” Martin said. “We’re going to have to play incredibly well tomorrow.”

The format will pit each of LSU’s five golfers against Oregon’s five golfers in a one-on-one format. The team to win three or more of its match-ups will advance to semifinals.

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Aaron Wise had hovered around par throughout the first two days of NCAA Championships, flashing moments of brilliance, only to come back down to earth with missed opportunities that often resulted in bogeys.

“I felt like I was getting things going and then I’d make a silly mistake and throw it right back,” Wise said.

Sunday morning, however, in the third round of stroke play at Eugene Country Club, Wise kept his momentum going with a six-under 64 score and moved into first place among the 156-player field.

Wise’s finest moment came on the back nine, when he dropped four consecutive birdies on holes 13 through 16. He nearly had an ace on the 205-yard, par-three 16th hole, but the ball caught the edge of the hole and rolled out.

Almost an ACE for @aaronwise_ at 16 here at #NCAAGolf at @EugeneCC pic.twitter.com/xnwPZih5nD

— Lance Ringler (@GolfweekRingler) May 29, 2016

“Through the middle part of that back nine I had a lot of momentum,” Wise said. “The crowd was with me, and it was awesome.”

A noticeably large gallery of spectators followed Wise throughout the round.

“You definitely notice it,” Wise said. “It was 20 to 30 people maybe on the front nine, then it became 100 people coming down the stretch.”

For the rest of the Oregon men’s golf team, Wise’s performance couldn’t have come at a better time. Although Thomas Lim and Zach Foushee shot even and one-over, respectively, the Ducks shot four-over as a team.

“[Aaron] covered for us a little bit,” head coach Casey Martin said. “We had a couple guys really struggle, so I was grateful he turned it on when he did.”

Edwin Yi shot 10-over in the third round, taking a step back from his strong play through the previous two days.

After carding a one-under in the second round, Raza also dropped off, shooting a nine-over in his round that included eight bogeys and one double bogey.

But overall, the Ducks (+12) remained in the top five of 30 teams when their round concluded just before 1 p.m. Oregon is seven strokes behind first place Vanderbilt (+5).

“We’re where we need to be,” Martin said. “We could’ve been even better obviously, but it is what it is. I think we’ll be ready and the guys who struggled today will be ready to come back tomorrow and show that it was a random occurrence.”

Both Wise and Martin noted how the course has gotten tougher, particularly the firmer greens and deeper rough that head groundskeeper Chris Gaughan has left untouched since the tournament began. The course has challenged practically everyone, and several top teams — Stanford (27th), Wake Forest (tied for 22nd) and Florida (tied for 20th) — are in danger of missing the cut when the field is narrowed from 30 to 15 teams at the end of play Sunday.

On Monday, an individual national champion will be crowned, and the field will also be cut from 15 to eight teams. Match play, where the final eight teams square off in a head-to-head bracket format, will go from Tuesday to Wednesday.

Pairings and tee times for Monday will be announced later in the day.

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A day removed from a slow start in round one, Oregon men’s golf proved Saturday afternoon how significant its home-course advantage could be in the second round of NCAA Championships.

The Ducks shot three-under 277 as a team – the best overall team score through two rounds of stroke play. Only Oregon and Alabama (-1) shot under the par-70 Eugene Country Club course Saturday.

All five golfers in the Oregon lineup matched or shot better than their round one scores, but it was Edwin Yi who made the biggest impact.

The freshman shot two-under to move into a tie for sixth (-1) with the likes of top-10 golfers Jon Rahm of Arizona State and Lee McCoy of Georgia. Yi closed the back nine with three birdies and an eagle compared to two bogeys.

Wise maintained his even par standing and finished day two tied for 15th overall.

Sulman Raza made the biggest improvement for the Ducks, turning around a seven-over first round to shoot one-under 69 in round two. He birdied hole 9 – Oregon’s last hole of the round – to go move into a tie for 81st.

Thomas Lim shot even par in round two – a significant improvement from his five-over first round scorecard.

Zach Foushee’s one-over 71 didn’t count against the Ducks in the play-five, score-four championship format.

Vanderbilt (+3) shot even-par 280 and moved up two spots into first place. USC (+5), behind individual leader Justin Suh (-5), trails Vanderbilt by two strokes. Alabama’s Robby Shelton and San Diego State’s Nahum Mendoza III are tied for second at four-under through two rounds.

The Ducks will tee off at 7:22 a.m. Sunday morning one hole #1 with new pairings – fourth-place LSU and sixth-place Alabama.

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Oregon played nervous from the outset when it teed off in the first round of NCAA Championships at Eugene Country Club Friday morning.

On the Ducks’ very first hole, only Aaron Wise’s tee shot landed on the fairway. Edwin Yi shot far right of the fairway. Zach Foushee and Sulman Raza’s shots bounced left of the first bunker. Thomas Lim’s ball hit a tree and dropped in the rough to the right of the fairway.

It was only one hole, but the Ducks never fully got in a rhythm. They ultimately finished the first round of stroke play 11 over the par-70 course. At the time of their finish, the Ducks were tied for 17th, but that ranking will likely change once the afternoon rounds finish.

“Today was tough. We got off to a really crummy start,” Head Coach Casey Martin said. “We had a couple guys double [bogey] the first hole. You know there’s nerves, but that’s disappointing.”

Wise led Oregon with an even-par scorecard, which came down to a birdie putt on the 18th hole. Yi, the freshman, bounced back from three bogeys on the front nine to shoot even par on the back nine.

“Edwin played great, and Aaron is obviously Aaron, but the other guys need to step up and play better,” Martin said.

Foushee and Lim each finished five-over on the day, while Raza finished seven-over. Raza twice three-putted on the 11th and 17th holes, the latter of which costing him a triple bogey.

Between fighting the sand traps and struggling with his short game, Raza, the Eugene-native, voiced his frustration throughout the round.

“I’ve never scrambled this much in my life,” Raza said after he salvaged par on the 13th hole.

The par-70 golf course was intended to be more challenging for NCAA Championships than the typical 72 that it usually plays. The Ducks knew this coming into the tournament, and had practiced for it during the regular season.

“We played it as a par-70, trying to get into the right mindset,” Wise said. “Does it play a little different? Yeah, but at the end of the day you’ve got to realize 70 is a good score out here.”

As the much as the Ducks — particularly Foushee, Lim and Raza — struggled to find the fairway, to their credit, they still managed to save several holes. But ultimately the deficit, against a deep NCAA Championships field, was too much to overcome.

“I think they’re disappointed — at least I hope they are,” Martin said. “We’ll regroup and come out swinging tomorrow.”

Oregon will begin round two of the 54-hole stroke play tournament Saturday afternoon. Tee time and pairings will be announced Friday evening once all 30 teams finish the first round.

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Aaron Wise couldn’t remember the last time he practiced at Eugene Country Club when the topic came up Thursday.

“Wow, a long time ago,” the sophomore golfer said. “Before Pac-12 [Championships] or something like that.”

With the Eugene Country Club hosting the NCAA Championships, NCAA rules prohibited the Ducks from practicing at the club leading up to the tournament. Thursday, however, the team returned to practice on its familiar course, along with 29 other teams, trying to survey the course one last time before the six-day tournament begins Friday morning. But even after an extended absence, Oregon inevitably has experience on the course that far exceeds the rest of the field.

“It’s a huge advantage,” junior Thomas Lim said. “There’s a lot of little things that you have to pick up throughout the week. It’s good to go into the week already knowing those things. I can really focus on my targets and my game instead of trying to figure out the course.”

Oregon men’s golf has never won a championship in the history of its program. Last year, the Ducks finished 23rd at the NCAA Championships in Brandenton, Florida. In 10 years as head coach, Casey Martin has taken Oregon to seven NCAA Championships. In 2010, the Ducks made it to the final four of match play, before losing to Oklahoma State 3-1-1.

Besides the home-course advantage, Oregon’s lineup will look a lot different next season. Wise recently announced he will turn professional following the end of the season, while seniors Zach Foushee and Brandon McIver are graduating.

“This is obviously the best chance we’re going to have for a while at least, and we’re looking forward to making the most of it,” Wise said.

The NCAA Women’s Golf Championships took place this week at Eugene Country Club, and several men’s golfers came out to support the Oregon women’s golf team that eventually finished eighth. As the tournament wore on, the Ducks were itching to get on the course themselves.

“That was probably the hardest part of this week: coming out and wanting to support the girls, but having to wait our turn to get out here and play,” Wise said. “We’re happy that’s over, pleased with how we played today… and we’re ready to go tomorrow.”

The six-day tournament will start with a three-round, 54-hole stroke play before the field is cut from 30 to 15 Sunday. An individual champion will be crowned following the end of stroke play Monday, before the top-eight teams compete in a head-to-head match play format Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Ducks will tee off at 7:22 a.m. tomorrow on hole 1 along with SEC teams South Carolina and Arkansas. Freshman Edwin Yi will start things off for the Ducks, followed by Foushee, Sulman Raza, Lim and Wise.

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– Oregon women’s golf’s season came to an end Tuesday, as it lost to UCLA in the match play portion of NCAA Championships at Eugene Country Club. The loss also meant the end to senior Caroline Inglis’s Oregon career. Inglis, a Eugene native and former Churchill High School golfer, played four years for the Ducks and became the first player in program history to win a Pac-12 individual championship.

– In response to growing criticism of late start times, the Pac-12 Conference announced Tuesday it plans to reduce the number of football games next season starting at 7 p.m. or later. Instead, certain games will air on Pac-12 Networks at either 2:30 or 6 p.m. during simultaneous games broadcast on ESPN and FOX.

“The Pac-12 has some of the most loyal fans in college athletics and we appreciate our television partners working with us on this important issue for fans,” UO athletic director Rob Mullens said in a statement.

– Also starting this fall, the Pac-12 will begin fining individual universities whose fans rush the court following the conclusion of basketball games. An institution’s first offense will carry a $25,000 fine, while a second offense will cost $50,000 and a third offense $100,000.

– As Oregon softball prepares to face UCLA in the Eugene Super Regional this weekend, the Ducks are in a much more favorable position than when they dropped a series to the Bruins in the regular season. According to Tyson Alger of The Oregonian, this is thanks in large part to the resurgence of Alyssa Gillespie and Jenna Lilley, who have shaken off regular season slumps to contribute in the batting order.

– Led by fifth-year senior Jesse Shofner, Oregon women’s ultimate is looking to capture its third national title in five years. Shofner is a candidate for the 2016 Callahan Award, given annually to the most valuable player in men’s and women’s ultimate.

– Oregon club rowing is returning to nationals after last year in which the team qualified all five of its boats and won one medal in the grand finals. This year, after a strong performance at Pac-12 Championships, the team heads to Gainesville, Georgia where regionals will take place May 28-29.

An up and down season for Oregon men’s golf filled with high expectations has reached its pinnacle.

The Ducks finished second out of 14 teams at the Tucson Regional Wednesday, earning a spot in the NCAA Championships, which UO is hosting at Eugene Country Club May 27-June 1. The Ducks have a significant home-course advantage, having practiced at Eugene Country Club extensively throughout the regular season.

Five of 14 teams in each of the six regionals advance to NCAA Championships.

“There’s definitely some stress and some pressure on the kids, but it also tends to bring out the best in them, too,” head coach Casey Martin said before regionals.

Martin’s assessment proved to be true.

The Ducks hung around the top three over the first two rounds, but distanced themselves Wednesday in the third round. The lineup of Aaron Wise, Zach Foushee, Sulman Raza, Thomas Lim and Edwin Yi combined for 21 birdies compared to eight bogeys over the final round. Their final round score of 17-under 274 is the third-best regional round in program history.

Lim carried Oregon for much of the first two rounds as he shot three-under and four-under, and briefly trailed eventual champion, Stanford’s Franklin Huang, by one stroke. Lim ultimately finished the tournament tied for fourth (-6).

Wise shot even par in the first and second round, but exploded for for seven birdies, including three consecutive on holes 4, 5 and 6. Wise (-5) placed seventh, adding another top 10 finish to his decorated season.

Not far behind, Raza finished tied for 12th at one-under. After carding two bogeys on the back nine, Raza finished the round strong, shooting birdies on the 16th and 17th holes.

Yi matched Wise’s five-under in the last round, shooting par or better for the round. Playing in his biggest tournament to date, the freshman finished tied for 22nd (+1).

Foushee, who returned to the lineup after sitting out of the Pac-12 Championships due to injury, rebounded from a seven-over round two and shot three-under in the final round. Foushee placed in a tie for 38th.

Joining the Ducks in Eugene will be Tucson Regional champion Stanford, UAB, Cal and Wake Forest. Pac-12 foes Arizona State and USC also qualified for NCAA Championships out of the Albuquerque Regional.

The Ducks begin stroke play of NCAA Championships May 27. Fans interested in attending can purchase tickets on GoDucks.com. All session tickets are $20 and single day tickets are $5.

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Lawyers representing Daniel Cook, who was an Oregon offensive lineman from 1971-73 , are suing the NCAA and Pac-12 for concealing information about long-term effects of concussions, according to The Oregonian.

The suit alleges that Cook sustained multiple concussions and was knocked out between 15 and 30 times while playing for Oregon. The Oregonian reports that Cook went on to become a middle school teacher for 30 years, but resigned due to the aftermath of his concussions, which affected his ability to teach. Cook has since been diagnosed with dementia.

Although Cook is at the center of the lawsuit against the NCAA and Pac-12, it seeks to compensate all Oregon players who played for the team between 1964 and 2010. In 2010, the NCAA mandated that all schools have concussion protocols.

The lawsuit is one of six filed against the NCAA and select athletic conferences by Edelson PC, based in Chicago. Former players from Auburn, Georgia, Penn State, Utah and Vanderbilt also filed suits.

Last month, the Emerald published a report on current concussion issues in football, and how Oregon is dealing with it. Oregon reported 79 concussions from 2013 to 2015, according to university public records.

Attorney Jay Edelson is leading this latest wave of football concussion-related lawsuits, but said there will be as many as 40 to 50 more suits from tens of thousands of ex-players to come, according to Jon Solomon of CBSSports.com.

“The goal of the suits is to get people who are injured financial compensation — something that hasn’t happened as of yet,” Edelson said.

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