The round of 16 is going on this afternoon (Thursday) in the 108th North and South Amateur Championship at Pinehurst Resort with medalist Jamie Lovemark the only Southern Cal Trojan left standing.

Both Rory Hie and Bo Dehuff, fellow USC teammates to Lovemark, were bounced from the championship after defeats in the second round of match play held this morning on No. 2.

Dehuff was defeated by Andrew Guiliani 2 and 1, while Hie fell to the wayside when Kevin O'Connell, a UNC golfer who was the ACC Freshman of the Year, defeated him 4 and 3.

The round of 16 is going on this afternoon (Thursday) in the 108th North and South Amateur Championship at Pinehurst Resort with medalist Jamie Lovemark the only Southern Cal Trojan left standing.

Both Rory Hie and Bo Dehuff, fellow USC teammates to Lovemark, were bounced from the championship after defeats in the second round of match play held this morning on No. 2.

Dehuff was defeated by Andrew Guiliani 2 and 1, while Hie fell to the wayside when Kevin O'Connell, a UNC golfer who was the ACC Freshman of the Year, defeated him 4 and 3.

Continuing the East Coast-West Coast theme, Duke rising junior Adam Long defeated 32-seed Scott Ziegler 3 and 2, while UCLA rising senior Lucas Lee won on the 21st hole against Pan Cheng Tsung in other morning matches.

Marathon match players Morgan Hoffman and Bud Cauley were all square until the 27th hole, where Hoffman birdied the par-3 ninth to advance to the third round, while two-time champion Paul Simson, a 57-year-old veteran of amateur play who lives in Raleigh, was defeated by Cameron Tringale 4 and 2.

Tringale, a Californian who plays at Georgia Tech, lost to Lovemark in a playoff for medalist honors during qualifying.

The afternoon rounds have Adam Long vs. Scott Langley; Patrick Rada vs. Guiliani; Lee vs. Matt Savage; Lovemark vs. Zack Byrd; Seth Brandon vs. Ferdinand Aunzo; Tringale vs. O'Connell; Jonathan Hodge vs. Kyle Stanley; and Hoffman vs. David McAndrew.

The afternoon rounds determine the quarterfinal matches that begin at 8 a.m. on Friday.