A year after losing a late-round lead in the finals of the Colorado Golf Association Senior Match Play Championship, Guy Mertz redeemed himself Friday when he had a chance to win the 2010 title.
Metz, a dentist from Longmont and Fox Hill Country Club member, won three of the first five holes of the championship match and added to his lead, eventually defeating Chuck Fisher of the Riverdale Dunes and Knolls 4 and 3 at Heritage Todd Creek in Thornton.
Mertz, 51, closed things out with a routine par on the 15th hole while Fisher made bogey after going into a greenside bunker.
It was Mertz’s second individual CGA title, to go with the Public Links Championship in 1988. In last year’s Senior Match Play finale, Mertz loss to Robert Polk of Colorado Golf Club.
In the super-senior division for players 60 and older, W. Patrick Mooney of Colorado Golf Club claimed the title with a 1-up victory over David Farabaugh of The Ranch Country Club.
Silver medal for boxer Elliston.
Denver’s Melik Elliston stayed close from the opening bell to the final round but fell to Roscoe Hill of Spring, Texas, in the 90-pound title bout at the USA Boxing National Championships in Camp Lejeune, N.C. Elliston, 15, who fights out of the Salvation Army’s Red Shield gym in Denver, lost a 3-0 decision to Hill, a fighter who Thursday routed his semifinal opponent.
Skyhawks softball coach resigns.
Fort Lewis College softball coach Pam Adams will step down from the job after 11 seasons, Skyhawks athletic director Kelly Higgins said. Adams will become an assistant athletic director at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, a few hours from her family home in Missouri. Adams also coached the Skyhawks volleyball team for five seasons during her tenure in Durango.
Gerler moves from Pueblo East to CSU-Pueblo.
CSU-Pueblo hired Brad Gerler as the school’s women’s tennis coach, athletic director Joe Folda said. Gerler was the boys tennis coach at Pueblo East High School the past two seasons. He replaces Brian Drummond, who resigned in May.
Rose on all-star team headed to Brazil.
Colorado College’s Nick Rose was selected to the USA D-3 basketball all-star team that will play five games during a tour of Brazil in early August. Rose, from Lakewood High School, was a first-team All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference selection as a junior last season.
