Hodgdon golfers compete

by Staff Pioneer Times
14 years ago

By Kevin Sjoberg
Staff Writer
    For the third year in a row, the Fort Fairfield Tigers are the Aroostook League golf champions.
    Coach Larry Gardner’s squad came through with this year’s victory in convincing fashion at Limestone Country Club Friday with a score of 364 — 40 strokes better than runner-up Ashland.
    As the top two teams in Friday’s competition, both the Tigers and the Hornets earned berths in the Class C state championship, to be held Oct. 10 at Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro.
      Four boys and three girls from the region also qualified for the individual state championships, to be played Oct. 15 at Natanis. Boys scoring 90 or under and girls scoring 110 or under Friday earned the right to move on to play against the best golfers in the state.
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SP-countygolf-dc5-pt-39SWINGS — Hodgdon’s Ashley Wallace takes a swing during the Aroostook League Champinships. She finished with a 107.
    Mark Corella of Ashland led the way with a score of 81, nine strokes over par.
     Noah Bernard of Fort Fairfield was next with an 89, followed by Billy Weissman and Brandon Clark, also both of the Tigers, with 90s.
    For girls, Limestone-MSSM’s Meghan Flanagin carded a 97 on the day.
    Other female qualifers were Hodgdon’s Ashley Wallace with a 107 and Fort Fairfield’s Jordann Coiley with a 108.
    Local results from Friday are as follows:
    Central Aroostook (fourth, 421): Dan Brewer, 107; Alex Folsom, 99; Zach Grass, 112; Mike McClung, 103; Evan Grass, 128; Zack McClung, 107.
    Hodgdon (fifth, 434): Chris Wallace, 94; A. Wallace, 107; Greg Griffin, 119; Jordon Wilson, 114; Joshua Ganzel, 131; Jeff Wheeler, 118.
    Last Wednesday, four of the five teams gathered at LCC for a regular season match and a tune-up for the Aroostook League event to take place two days later. Chris Wallace of the Hawks was the medalist with a 44 and Fort Fairfield had the low team round with a 196.
    Central Aroostook’s Folsom led his team with a 48, while Meghan Flanagin had a 50 and Shane Flanagin a 54 for the host Eagles.