CU golfers leading Public Llinks tourney
wo University of Colorado athletes and two former CU players shared the first-round lead Friday at the Colorado Golf Association Public Links Championship at Fox Hollow Golf Course in Lakewood.
Buffaloes teammates Patrick Grady and Derek Tolan and former CU athletes Jim Grady and Riley Andrews each shot first-round 65s. Andrews will transfer this fall to NCAA Division II University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
* University of Denver junior Stephanie Sherlock won the CN Canadian Woman’s Tour event Tuesday in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a birdie on the fourth sudden-death playoff hole.
Sherlock outlasted Richmond, British Columbia, resident Kira Meixner and Las Vegas golfer Seema Sadekar to become the second amateur ever to win on the tour.
* Loveland resident Bethany Buchner, Kristin Kempton (Littleton), Bryce Schroeder (Pueblo) and Allie Johnston (Castle Rock) will represent Colorado at the Girls Junior Americas Cup from July 29-31 in Calgary, Alberta.
DOUBLE DUTY Littleton resident Jessika Mozia won two girls singles finals at the Mountain Ocean Junior Open tennis tournament in Boulder.
The unseeded Mozia won the girls 18 crown 6-4, 6-4 against third-seeded Ryann Warner, of Colorado Springs.
Mozia also won the girls 16 title as the bracket’s top-seeded player, 6-3, 6-4 against Lindsay Barlow, of Englewood.
Second-seeded Calix Van Lier (Longmont) upended top-seeded Chris Cooprider (Centennial) 7-5, 6-4 in the boys 18 final.
Second-seeded Andrew Flora (Westminster) upset top-seeded Jonathan Shpall (Englewood) 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 in the boys 16 final.
PIONEERS IN GOOD STANDING It was a very good year for DU athletics in 2007-08.
The Pioneers finished first among Front Range colleges in the U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings in NCAA Division I for the first time since returning to the classification in 1998.
DU finished 47th in the national rankings, buoyed by the performances of its skiing, women’s golf and women’s gymnastics teams.
CU ranked 50th, Air Force was 123rd, Colorado State was 133rd, Wyoming was 182nd and Northern Colorado was 236th.
The Pioneers also ranked first among schools in the Sun Belt Conference. Stanford led the national standings.
* Former DU swimmer Kelsey Totura and current Pioneers athlete Katy Motsinger will compete at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials this weekend in Omaha.
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