Presque Isle boys win first state golf title

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The Presque Isle High School boys golf team won its first ever state championship on Friday by shooting a 323 to edge Freeport by five strokes in the Class B competition at the Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro.

The A and C state championships are on Saturday. 

Presque Isle was the fifth school to claim the title over the past five years.

Leavitt High of Turner’s Jade Haylock won her third consecutive B girls individual title as she shot a 73.

Nokomis of Newport was third with a 332 followed by Yarmouth (342), Cony High of Augusta (350), Gardiner (360), Lawrence of Fairfield (361), Mount Desert Island (363), Caribou (374) and Gray-New Gloucester (377).

Freeport’s Eli Spaulding was the individual winner for the third straight year with a 70. Gardiner’s Jack Quinn was second as he was a year ago. He shot a 73.

Kellen Adickes of Newcastle’s Lincoln Academy was third with a 74.

Alex Grant of Nokomis and Noah McLellan of Oceanside in Rockland tied for fourth with 77s.

Presque Isle’s Grant Stubbs and Gardiner’s Austin Gould shot 78s; Presque Isle’s Owen MacKinnon and MDI’s Caden Braun shot 79s and Nokomis’ S.J. Welch and Caden Chretien and Yarmouth’s Sebastien Martinez finished with 80s.