Northern Colorado baseball player Mark Shannon, a Chatfield High School graduate, was named a second- team freshman All-American by Ping!baseball.
He was honored as a utility player, finishing the season with a .326 batting average and six triples. He also pitched well enough to rank second among the Bears (34-24) with a 4.52 ERA. His record was 6-3.
Shannon made starts at six positions and was the Great West Conference newcomer of the year.
Rock Canyon loses coach.
Tyler Munro resigned as Rock Canyon’s baseball coach on the heels of the most successful season in the school’s Class 4A history.
Munro coached the Jaguars to a third-place finish in the state and a 19-7 record this year. He told his team he was resigning after Rock Canyon was eliminated by Broomfield on May 29.
“It’s come down to family,” Munro said. “I’ve got a 5-year-old and a 16-month-old; we want to have a third child. If baseball was just a spring sport, I would be able to keep doing it. But it’s spring, summer, fall, winter. There’s just so much that adds to it.”
Munro teaches pre-calculus at the school.
Ryan Casey, The Denver Post
CGA Senior Match Play set to start.
Harry Johnson of Eagle Ranch Golf Course, Bear Creek Golf Club’s Hal Marshall and Larry Netherton of Highlands Ranch Golf Club shot even-par 72s on Monday in stroke-play qualifying for the Colorado Golf Association Senior Match Play at Heritage Todd Creek in Thornton.
Robert Polk of Colorado Golf Club finished three strokes behind the qualifiers, but he will be the tournament’s No. 1 seed as the defending champion.
Match play begins today, with 64 players competing through Friday’s finale.
In the super-senior division for players age 60 and older, four-time open-division Senior Match Play champion John Olive recorded the lowest round Monday, finishing with 2-under 70. Sixteen super-senior players advance to match play.
