The Colorado State men’s golf team is in the lead after the opening day of the Mountain West Conference championship Thursday in Tucson.
The Rams finished the day at 1-under-par 283, two strokes ahead of No. 25 San Diego State and four strokes ahead of Brigham Young on the Catalina Course at Tucson National.
CSU’s Ryan Peterson and Zahkai Brown are at the top of the individual leaderboard after posting 1-under 70s, tied with UNLV’s Derek Ernst and BYU’s Estaban Calisto. Wyoming is in sixth place, 21 strokes off the pace. Air Force is seventh in the nine-team field.
Byrd thrives in Golden Gloves.
Denver’s Louie Byrd won his quarterfinal match in the 108-pound division late Thursday at the National Golden Gloves boxing tournament in Little Rock, Ark., posting a 5-0 decision over Kabir Rodriguez of Miami, according to .
Byrd, a two-time National Golden Gloves champion, is the last remaining fighter from Colorado and New Mexico still alive in the bracket.
Colorado’s Izaak Cardona, who won a 152-pound first-round fight Tuesday, was eliminated Wednesday after losing a decision to Michigan’s Leandre White.
Grizzlies hire Palermo.
Adams State College has named Justin Palermo its men’s golf coach.
Palermo was an assistant girls golf coach at Air Academy the past three seasons.
He graduated from CU-Colorado Springs in 2009 with a degree in business marketing and an emphasis on professional golf management. A native of Fresno, Calif., Palermo played high school golf for the Buchanan Bears in Clovis, Calif., and won the conference championship as a senior in 2002.
