Colorado’s Patrick Grady on Tuesday shot an even-par 70 in the third round of the Big 12 men’s golf championship in Hutchinson, Kan., and held on to fourth place with one round remaining.
Grady was three strokes off the lead at 2-over-par 212. Baylor’s Bill Allcorn, who also shot 70 on Tuesday, led at 209. CU’s Derek Tolan, after carding a 74 in the third round, fell from the lead to sixth place at 213.
Colorado, tied atop the team standings after two rounds, dropped one spot behind Oklahoma State. The final round at Prairie Dunes Country Club will be played today.
Finley’s heave honored. USA Track and Field named Mason Finley of Buena Vista High School its national athlete of the week, an award rarely given to prep athletes. Finley follows former University of Colorado standout Kara Goucher, who won last week after a third-place finish in the Boston Marathon.
Finley’s discus throw of 236 feet, 6 inches Saturday in the High Altitude Challenge in Alamosa set a national high school record. The previous record was 234-4, set in 2001 by Niklas Arrhenius of Orem, Utah.
DU women’s hoops signs three. University of Denver women’s basketball coach Erik Johnson has signed three players to play for the Pioneers in the upcoming season: Patricia Gortarez of Phoenix, Emiko Smith of Culver City, Calif., and Morgan Shell of Marble Falls, Texas.
Gortarez helped her St. Mary’s High School team to the 2006 state championship and a runner-up finish this spring.
Smith, from Windward School, was named first team in her league all four years.
Shell is transferring from Southern Methodist, where she averaged nine minutes per game this past season.
The trio will join Sarah Feeney (Bismarck, N.D.) and Laura Palmere of Mullen High School, who committed in the early signing period.
DU sets women’s soccer schedule. The Pioneers’ women’s soccer team will open the new soccer stadium with the DU Invitational on Aug. 28 and Aug. 30, hosting St. Mary’s (Calif.), Illinois and Colorado.
Other schedule highlights for the three-time defending Sun Belt Conference champions include September tournaments in Oregon, Colorado Springs and Boulder, where the Pioneers are the defending champions of the CU Invitational. DU will host the Buffs and Colgate.
DU will play Kansas (which eliminated the Pioneers from the NCAA Tournament last season) and TCU at the Colorado College Invitational.
Wyoming basketball signs forward from Ohio. The Wyoming men’s basketball team capped its 2009-10 recruiting class with the signing of Daylen Harrison, a 6-foot-6, 220-pound forward from Akron, Ohio.
The 17-year-old Harrison signed a national letter of intent with the Cowboys after a weekend visit to Laramie.
Coach Heath Schroyer praised Harrison for his shooting ability and post play.
Harrison averaged 17 points and 10 rebounds per game during his senior year at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, the alma mater of LeBron James. Harrison helped lead the team to a 24-4 record and the Ohio Division II state championship.
He was selected the MVP of the state tournament. He shot 49.8 percent from the field and 35.6 percent from the 3-point line as a senior.
