Hall, men’s golf team lead pack on final day, take third in Hawaii

Paced by sophomore Harry Hall’s round-best 7-under-par 65, the UNLV men’s golf team closed with a round-leading 14-under 274 and finished third Friday in the 18-team John A. Burns Intercollegiate in Lihue, Hawaii.

Hall, who had eight birdies and one bogey in his final round, finished in a threeway tie for third at 10-under 206.

The 21st-ranked Rebels totaled 24-under 840, one stroke behind No. 25 Texas A&M and five back of No. 9 Virginia, the wire-towire leader.

Brigham Young was fourth, 16 strokes behind UNLV.

For the Rebels, junior Shintaro Ban shot 4-under 68 Friday and finished at 8-under 208 and alone in seventh in the 109-player field.

Junior John Oda had a bogey-free 67 Friday and finished tied with freshman Justin Kim in a tie for 13th at 3-under 213.

SOFTBALL: At Eller Media Stadium, Janine Petmecky hit a two-out, two-run, walk-off home run in the seventh inning and totaled three RBIs for UNLV (6-2), which overcame four errors in a 6-5 win over Weber State (0-6-1) in the DeMarini Desert Classic. In the Rebels’ second game, Alyssa Navarro belted a three-run pinch-hit homer in a five-run fourth inning as UNLV overcame six errors in an 8-4 win over Texas-El Paso (0-6).

BASEBALL: At Wilson Stadium, Justin Jones went 3-for-5 with a grand slam and a three-run homer and totaled eight RBIs for UNLV (1-0), which scored nine unearned runs in a 20-3 rout of Omaha (0-1) in the UNLV Classic. Alan Strong (1-0) struck out 11 in five innings, and the Rebels held a 21-7 edge in hits.

FOOTBALL: John Jackson, a member of UNLV’s coaching staff from 1999 to 2004, died Thursday in Torrance, California, of complications following intestinal surgery. He was 81.