Scorpion Men's Golfers Visit Fort Worth

Posted March 18, 2007

The UTB/TSC men's golf team will compete at the UST Texas Collegiate Championship in Fort Worth March 19-20 at the Hawks Creek Golf Course, hosted by Texas Wesleyan University.

It is last tournament competition for the Scorpion men's golf team before heading the Red River Athletic Conference and Region VI Championship Tournament April 23-24 in Edmond, Okla.

In their last competition, the Scorpions finished third at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Spring Invitational February 26-27 in Temple. UTB/TSC shot a two-day total of 627, behind team champion McMurry University’s 604 and second-place tourney host UHMB’s 612.

“We’ve done very well. I’m not going to say we’ve done tremendous,” Scorpion head golf coach Robert Lucio said. “We still have a lot of room for improvement. We can’t have three good scores and the fourth score be high. Everybody has to come in to play.”

Three Scorpions — Jones Mitchell, Agapito Ortega and Anthony Lopez — finished among the top 11 in the competition. The trio was consistent in the two-day tournament, shooting in the 70s for both rounds.

Mitchell finished tied for sixth place overall with a 153 total to lead the Scorpions. Ortega came in 10th place (155) with Anthony Lopez finishing behind him in 11th (156). Other Scorpion scores were a 163 from Chris Milligan and Jerry Borgogni’s 171.