| EMCC claims runner-up team honors at NJCAA Region 23 Golf Championship |
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.jpg "Image") Head coach Dale Peay’s host EMCC Lions placed second at this week’s NJCAA Region 23 Golf Championship held at the MSU Golf Course in Starkville. Trailing 2009 MACJC state champion Copiah-Lincoln by two strokes heading into final-round action, head coach Dale Peay’s EMCC squad carded a 305 Tuesday to finish a dozen strokes ahead of Co-Lin (624-636). Firing team scores of 304 and 302, Mississippi Gulf Coast successfully defended its NJCAA Region 23 team title with this week’s 18-stroke victory over the host Lions. The Bulldogs will represent Region 23 at the 2009 NJCAA National Championship, May 19-22, at Goose Pond Colony Golf Course in Scottsboro, Ala. EMCC sophomore Hal Larkin, an MACJC All-State Second Team member, tied for the best round of the day by firing a 1-over-par 73 to claim one of the five individual qualifying spots for the upcoming NJCAA National Championship. The Caledonia High School product tied for fifth with a two-day total of 152 (79-73), but lost in a playoff with Co-Lin's Ryan Ratcliff to decide the fifth member of the 2009 NJCAA All-Region 23 Team. MGCCC's Richie Williams fired rounds of 72 and 74 to beat teammate Corey Ward (75-73—148) by two shots for individual medalist honors. Hinds' Elliott Bingham (71-78) and Gulf Coast's Nic Ishee (74-75) tied for third place with 149 totals. Williams, Ward and Ishee of Gulf Coast were joined on the 2009 NJCAA All-Region 23 Team by Bingham and Ratcliff. Rounding out the team finishers at the par-72, 6,888-yard MSU layout were Northeast Mississippi (327-310—637) and Hinds (322-316) in fourth and fifth place, respectively. Joining EMCC’s Larkin as individual qualifiers from Region 23 for next month’s NJCAA National Championship were Bingham, Ratcliff, Northeast Mississippi's Blake Hatfield (81-74—155) and Grant Goforth of Northwest Mississippi (76-80—156). Mississippi Gulf Coast's Tommy Snell was named 2009 NJCAA Region 23 Coach of the Year. East Mississippi freshmen Jordan Jamar of Bossier City, La. (80-77) and Will Black of Calhoun City (82-75) tied for ninth place with scores of 157. Rounding out the Lions’ regional scorecard this week in Starkville were Brandon’s Garrett Alford (78-80—158) and Trey Adams of Belmont (85-86—171). |
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