EUGENE — The Oregon State men’s golf team took second place at the Duck Invitational on Tuesday, but considering the competition, the result may go down as one of the best in school history.

All of the Pacific-10 Conference teams were in the 12-team field at the Eugene Country Club (par-72, 7,033 yards). OSU finished six shots back of fifth-ranked Southern California, but the Beavers placed better than seven teams ranked ahead of them in the Golfstat statistics, including No. 1 Stanford and No. 10 UCLA.

OSU shot a 295 during the final round to finish with a 10-over 874 (287-292-295). The Beavers were in second after Monday’s two rounds.

“This was such a great tournament for the program,” coach Brian Watts said. “I told our guys today that they had an opportunity to do something that no other OSU golf team has done, and that’s to beat the top-ranked team, as well as a whole lot of other highly ranked teams. To have finished the way we did was awesome. The players followed the game plan and stayed patient. They never got rattled and fought hard all day long.”

The Beavers took the lead in the Civil War Series 8-7 with a better finish than Oregon in the event, and with a better showing over the Ducks by the women’s team.

Vincent Johnson shot an even-par 72 to tie for 12th place along with teammate James Allenby. They both finished with a 4-over 220, six strokes back.

Alex Williams also shot a 72 to tie for 24th place with a 7-over 223. Diego Velasquez and Paul Peterson both tied for 31st and Mitch Gillis tied for 59th.

Team Scores

1. Southern California 282-295-291=868 +4; 2. Oregon State 287-292-295=874 +10; T3. Arizona 290-300-285=875 +11; T3. Oregon 287-293-295=875 +11; 5. Stanford 300-297-283=880 +16; T6. Washington 292-299-296=887 +23; T6. UCLA 291-296-300=887 +23; 8. Arizona State 294-296-299=889 +25; 9. San Diego State 298-297-298=893 +29; 10. California 291-301-310=902 +38; 11. Washington State 303-295-309=907 +43; 12. Pacific 322-307-294=923 +59

Oregon State Scores

T12. James Allenby 71-74-75=220 +4; T12. Vincent Johnson 68-80-72=220 +4; T24. Alex Williams 72-79-72=223 +7; T31. Diego Velasquez 76-73-76=225 +9; T31. Paul Peterson 77-71-77=225 +9; T59. Mitch Gillis 77-74-84=235 +19

Pac-10 names Lanz

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. n Oregon State’s Jami Lanz has been named the Pacific-10 Conference Gymnast of the Week for March 13-19, Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen announced Tuesday.

Lanz, a sophomore from Eugene, led the Beavers to a season-high score of 197.100 in Friday’s win over Cal State Fullerton at Gill Coliseum. Lanz scored a career-best 39.625 in the all-around against the Titans to tie for the fifth-highest score in school history. Leading the team with team with 13 individual titles coming into the meet, Lanz provided a dominant performance that included three scores of 9.900 or better and won three events and the all-around competition. After opening the evening with a 9.900 on vault to finish second, Lanz earned top honors on bars (9.875) and set a personal-best on balance beam with a score of 9.925. She finished the night with a career-high tying 9.925.

Lanz is tied for 10th nationally as an all-arounder in the rankings and is first in the conference. She is ranked 19th on bars and 21st on floor. She leads the team with 17 individual titles in 2007. In addition to five all-around titles, she has four on beam and three apiece on bars and floor and two titles on vault.

This week’s award is the third of the season for Oregon State gymnasts; Lanz earned the award for the week of Feb. 13-19 and Tasha Smith received recognition the following week Feb. 20-26.

Gymnast honored

Four gymnasts are on the Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic team as first- or second-team selections. The Beavers had the most selections in the conference for the second year in a row.

Keegan Fitzgerald, Claire Pierce and D’Anna Piro received first-team recognition and Yuki Lamb earned second-team honors.

Earning as honorable mention were juniors Courtney Dennison and Megan Devencenzi, sophomore Kera Bolen and redshirt-freshman Brooke Barclay.