Snedeker Helps East Defeat West in All-Star Matches 5/26/03

STILLWATER, Okla. -Vanderbilt's Brandt Snedeker won both his singles and doubles matches as the East team defeated the West, 17-10, in the East vs. West All-Star Matches at the NCAA Championship.

Snedeker, participating in his second consecutive NCAA Championship, defeated Southern California's David Oh, 2-up, in his singles match. The senior from Nashville, Tenn., then teamed with Minnesota's Wilhelm Schauman to win, 2 and 1, in their doubles match against Oh and Texas' J.J. Wall.

The East squad claimed 11 of the 18 singles matches and five of the nine four-ball matches.

The East vs. West competition consisted of 18 singles and four-ball matches at Karsten Creek in Stillwater, Okla., in conjunction with the 2003 Division I Men's Golf Championship. Each match was worth one point for the winning team with halved matches earning one-half point for each side.

Snedeker and the rest of the Commodores now turn their attention toward the school's first ever appearance in the NCAA Championship. Vanderbilt begins its run to the national title Tuesday with the first of four rounds.

2003 East vs. West All-Star Matches Presented by Twin Hill

East 17, West 10

Camilo Villegas, Florida (East) def. Jay Loar, SMU (West), 5 and 3

Leif Olson, Duke (East) def. John Ellis, Oregon (West), 1-up

Villegas and Olson def. Loar and Ellis, 3 and 2

Julien Trudeau, Wichita State (West) def. Ryan Gildersleeve, South Alabama (East), 2 and 1

Kevin Kisner, Georgia (East) def. Travis Johnson, UCLA (West), 2 and 1

Gildersleeve and Kisner def. Trudeau and Johnson, 1-up

Michael Letzig, New Mexico (West) def. Oliver Wilson, Augusta State (East), 1-up

Patrick Nagle, Illinois (East) def. Brady Stockton, Arizona State (West), 5 and 4

Letzig and Stockton def. Wilson and Nagle, 1-up

Tony Giarrantano, Denver (West) def. Ted Brown, Virginia Commonwealth (East), four and three

Brien Davis, UNLV (West) def. John Holmes, Kentucky (East), six and five

Giarrantano and Davis def. Brown and Holmes, five and four

Mark Warman, San Diego State (West) def. Eirik Johansen, South Carolina (East), 1-up

Michael Putnam, Pepperdine (West) def. Lee Williams, Auburn (East), 1-up

Warman and Putnam def. Johansen and Williams, 2-up

Brandt Snedeker, Vanderbilt (East) def. David Oh, Southern California (West), 2-up

Wilhelm, Schauman, Minnesota (East) def. J.J. Wall, Texas (West), 3 and 2

Snedeker and Schauman def. Oh and Wall, 2 and 1

Ross McGowan, Tennessee (East) def. Chris Stroud, Lamar (West), 3 and 2

Justin Walters, NC State (East) def. Brett Callas, Houston (West), six and four

McGowan and Walters def. Stroud and Callas, three and two

Troy Matteson, Georgia Tech (East) def. Brock MacKenzie, Washington (West), 1-up

D.J. Trahan, Clemson (East) vs. Ricky Barnes, Arizona (West), even

Matteson and Trahan vs. MacKenzie and Barnes, even

Dustin Bray, North Carolina (East) def. Andrew Dahl, Arkansas (West), four and three

Bill Haas, Wake Forest (East) def. Pär Nilsson, Oklahoma State (West), five and four

Bray and Haas def. Dahl and Nilsson, four and three