B-CU Women's Team Leading into Final Round of the 27th PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship

Credit: The PGA of America

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – The wind picked up on Saturday at PGA Golf Club, but the University of Texas-Pan American men’s team and Bethune Cookman University women’s team played well enough to lead heading into the final round of the 27th PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship presented by Brown Capital Management.

The 2013 edition of the 54-hole Championship, which will conclude tomorrow, features nearly 200 players representing more than 40 colleges and universities.

The Texas-Pan American men, who trailed first-round leader Bethune-Cookman by 11 strokes, were catapulted by Kevin Kirokossian’s stellar 5-under-par 67 on the Wanamaker Course and lead the men’s division I competition by four strokes heading into the final round tomorrow.

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The defending champion in the division, Texas-Pan American used a second-round 3-over-par 291 for a two-day total of 585.

Bethune-Cookman is now in second place overall at 589. Alabama State University is in third at 594.

“The round was really good today, considering I played the par 5s at one over for the day," said Kirakossian, a senior. “Our team wanted to come out and win the day, shoot the lowest score of any team out there. Then we could see where we stood and try and win it all tomorrow.”

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