Tech golfer Aberg wins Big 12 title
TRINITY — Texas Tech golfer Ludvig Aberg won the individual Big 12 championship on Wednesday, shooting a bogey-free final round of 3-under-par 69 at Whispering Pines.
Aberg completed 54 holes at 8-under, two better than Chris Gotterup from Oklahoma and three clear of Oklahoma State's Bo Jin and Texas' Cole Hammer.
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The tournament was shortened from 72 holes to 54 after Monday's first round was suspended because of weather and completed Tuesday.
Top-ranked Oklahoma won the team title by shooting 14-under, followed by No. 2 Oklahoma State at 12-under, No. 9 Texas at 11-under and No. 5 Texas Tech at 3-under. Then there was a gap to fifth-place TCU at 25-over.
Aberg, a junior from Sweden, took a one-shot lead into the final round after shooting 68-71 through 36 holes. He started with a birdie at the par-4 first hole, added birdies on the par-4 No. 6 and par-5 No. 12 and made 15 pars.
Tech's Andy Lopez (72-71-74) tied for 14th in the field of 54 players, and Calum Scott (74-72-73) finished a solo 17th. Baard Skogen (72-80-72) tied for 25th, and Sandy Scott (76-73-79) tied for 37th.
Women's golf
Texas Tech is the No. 4 seed in the Stanford Regional of the NCAA tournament that will unfold May 9-11 at the Stanford Gold Course.
The NCAA regional round will have 72 teams and 36 individuals spread over six sites. Oregon, Oklahoma State, San Jose State, Stanford, South Carolina and Wake Forest are No. 1 regional seeds.
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The Stanford Regional, in addition to the host team and Texas Tech, will have Southern California, LSU, Kentucky, Iowa State, Northwestern, Purdue, Nevada-Las Vegas, Cal Poly, Princeton and Sacred Heart.
All the regionals are scheduled for May 9-11. The top four teams and two individuals from each regional will advance to the championship May 20-25 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Football
Texas Tech center Clayton Franks announced Wednesday he's had his name entered into the NCAA transfer portal.
"Thank you to Texas Tech and the City of Lubbock for the memories made and great people I have been acquainted with," he wrote on Twitter.
Franks, a 6-foot-4, 290-pound senior from Mansfield Legacy, played in eight games last season as a backup. He competed for the starting center job during the Red Raiders' spring practice that finished up last week, but Dennis Wilburn started at that spot during the spring game on Saturday.
Franks signed with Tech out of high school and has been in the program for four years.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Tech sports roundup: Red Raiders golfer Ludvig Aberg wins Big 12 title
