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Bill Hilbig: FSGA is keeping an eye on Emily

Weather forecasters are not the only ones keeping an eye on the path of Tropical Storm Emily. Officials with the Florida State Golf Association also are trying to determine if the storm will impact the Treasure Coast this weekend.

It will be Thursday afternoon before the FSGA figures out what to do about the Junior Team Championship scheduled for Saturday and Sunday on both the Dunes and Lakes courses at Sandridge in Vero Beach.

If Emily remains offshore as expected, then tournament officials should only have to worry about rain showers. It not, well, stay tuned.

As it is, some 170 players representing 56 teams will be competing in four divisions — boys and girls, ages 13-15 and 16-18.

Our area will be represented by the Pointe West Junior Golf team of Jake Leffew, Payton Taylor and Bradley Wonka, and the Treasure Coast Junior Tour team of Taylor Belinchak, Maria Boccabella, Max Bosco, Edwin Gonzalez, Dayna Owens, Cole Thompson, Jake Corvino, Jake Koontz and Colin Leonard.

AMATEUR MATCH PLAY

On the other hand, Emily should not affect the FSGA's Amateur Match Play Championship that starts Thursday at Southern Hills Plantation in Brooksville.

Port St. Lucie's Ryan Black, Justin Dorward, Joseph Latowski and Jason Martinkovic are in the field as is Tequesta's Gabriel Costa.

Black won the tournament in 2009, defeating Guillermo Pumarol of Miami 2 and 1 at Old Corkscrew in Estero.

Costa was the runner-up last year, dropping a 5 and 4 decision to Alexander Medinis of Fort Myers at the Ritz-Carlton in Jupiter.

Latowski finished third in stroke play last year before losing to Dorward in a first-round match. Dorward later lost to Costa in the semifinals.

Black is using this week's tournament as a tune-up for the 111th U.S. Amateur Championship slated to begin Aug. 22 at Erin Hills in Erin, Wis. It will be Black's second trip to the U.S. Am in three years.

All-ACADEMIC

Dorward received some good news last week when he was named to the Big East Conference All-Academic team for this past school year. He will be a senior at the University of Louisville this fall.

Black, who will be a senior at West Florida, and Dorward were teammates at Lincoln Park Academy back in the day.

CATCHING UP

Will Davenport of Palm City won the Optimist International Junior Golf Tournament that wrapped up Sunday at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens. Davenport posted a 281 (72-72-66-71) to win by one stroke.

Virginia Tech Lifts Lockdown After Gun Reports - West Palm Beach ...

(CNN) -- Virginia Tech lifted the alert Thursday afternoon it had ordered earlier in the day when it was believed that a man with a gun was on campus.

"There will continue to be a large police presence on campus today. Police have not received nor discovered additional information about a person possibly carrying a weapon beyond that reported this morning The university community may resume normal campus activity," a statement on the school's website said.

Virginia Tech is the site of the 2007 shooting massacre and the scare had some in the school remembering that shooting spree.

Authorities released a sketch of the man three juveniles had said might have been carrying a weapon on campus.

A little after 9 a.m. the three juveniles, who are attending a camp at Virginia Tech, said they saw a white male who had an object covered by some kind of cloth that the juveniles believed to be a weapon, officials said.

They said the man was walking fast. Authorities did not locate him and they said they never found a person who matched the description they were given.

As the search was underway during the day, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum warned students and others to continue to stay indooors.

Near noon, university officials said four other police departments were helping in the search but no suspect had been captured.

At 1 p.m. the University release the sketch of the suspect and said the search continued.

"We have a very large campus and this will be a long process. There have been no further sightings or reports," the university said in one of its many alerts Thursday.

Larry Hinker, an executive with the university, said it was very important to get information to the campus to help keep people safe.

"This is simply the world we live in today," Hinker said. "People expect and want to know exactly what's happening. You need to communicate first and investigate later and that's what we did."

The white male was described as having light brown hair and being 6 feet tall, and was said to be walking in the direction of a volleyball court. The man was wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, gray shorts and brown sandals. He had no glasses or facial hair, according to the report.

Summer sessions are being held at the school but regular classes aren't in session at the southwestern Virginia college.

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