SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - The men's golf team will complete their 2009 fall season with The Match Play, hosted by DePaul University, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, at the Pine Needles Golf Course in Southern Pines, N.C.

The field is comprised of 11 BIG EAST schools who will all take on the challenging 7,011 yard par-71 course which has hosted three U.S. Women's Opens.  Seeding for the tournament was determined by each team's Golfstat ranking with the top five teams receiving first round byes.  

The Pirates earned the #6 seed with a rating of 159 coming into the tournament.  Seton Hall will face #11-seeded USF in first round competition Friday.  The winner of that match will advance to take on #3 DePaul on Saturday.

Each team is comprised of six golfers with each member attempting to earn his respective team a point.  The golfers will be paired off based on their individual Golfstat ratings.  An outright win will net each golfer one point while a halved match will result in a half point awarded to each golfer.  A team must earn at least three and a half points to move on to the next round.  In the event of a 3-3 tie the win will be awarded to the team which won the most individual holes in the six rounds played.

Seton Hall is coming off a fourth place finish at the Lincoln Mercury Intercollegiate two weeks ago.  The Pirates fired a 33-over-par, 304-305-609, in the rain-shortened event on their home course.  Junior Borja Faixat (Barcelona, Spain), competing as an individual, had the top Seton Hall performance with a 4-over-par, 75-73-148.  The fifth place finish was the best of his career.  

Junior Colin Van Es (Granger, Ind.) led the Pirates in team scoring with a 6-over-par, 78-72-150.  His performance placed him sixth among all individual golfers.

Through five fall tournaments, freshman Brandon Park (Cypress Bay, Fla.) is leading all Pirate regulars with a 74.92 stroke average.  Van Es is second on the team with a 75.10 average.

2009 SETON HALL GOLF FALL AVERAGES/LOWS