Ross Shoots 65 To Set The Pace In Pro-Senior

Billy Ross of Wandermere, off a sizzling 28 on his first nine holes, claimed pro honors in the regular-season finale of the Washington Trust Bank Pro-Am on Monday.

Ross had a 28-37 for a 5-under-par 65 to edge Chris Mitchell of Sun Dance and Mike DeLong of the Coeur d’Alene Resort, who shot identical 34-32-66, in the Pro-Senior at Hayden Lake Golf and Country Club.

Craig Schuh of Deer Park shot 67 as 10 of the 59 pros but just one of the 236 amateurs broke par.

Karl Ota of Liberty Lake was the amateur leader with a 68.

Mitchell’s Sun Dance group won the team competition by three shots with a 109.

The WTB series winds up at Manito Oct. 19-20 with the top 20 professionals squaring off in a pros-only format for the first time.

Volleyball

Tickets still remain for the Stars & Spikes stop by the U.S. men’s and women’s national teams at the Spokane Arena Sunday.

The U.S. men take on Japan’s national team and the women play Canada. The matches start at 6 p.m. Reserved seats are $20, $13 and $10 and are available at the Arena box office and G&B Select-A-Seat, or by calling 325-SEAT.

The women are coming off a victory in the month-long World Grand Prix competition, the first gold medal for an American women’s team in a major international tournament. Tara Cross-Battle was named the tournament’s most valuable player and Elaina Oden was the event’s best spiker.

Keys to the U.S. men’s team are Bob Ctvrtlik, Bryan Ivie and Scott Fortune.

, DataTimes