Cheverus High School in Portland, Newcastle’s Lincoln Academy and Maranacook High School of Readfield captured Maine state golf championships at the Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro over the weekend.
In the Class A championships held on Friday, Cheverus made it two in a row by registering a score of 304, 10 strokes better than Falmouth. Rounding out the top 10 were Messalonskee of Oakland (324), Thornton Academy of Saco (328) a tie involving South Portland and Gorham (340s), Bangor (346), Brewer (350), Deering High of Portland (353) and Camden Hills of Rockport (372).
Sophomore Sam Sirois from Cheverus was the medalist with an even-par 72. Eight players tied for second with 76s: Bangor’s Jacoby Harvey, Falmouth’s Dante Iannetta, Cheverus’ Keane McGrath and Joe Stratman, Gorham’s Charlie Sands, Greyson Dooley from Messalonskee, Caleb Greenleaf from Mt. Ararat in Topsham and Sawyer Poland from Oxford Hills High School in South Paris.
There are no girls teams, so the girls play on the boys teams and have a separate individual competition.
Cheverus’ Jacquelin Sirois and Camden Hills’ Lila Dailey shared the A title with 97s. Mia Binnette from Kennebunk, Stella Veilleux from Windham and Bailey Begin from Greely High in Cumberland Center all shot 99s. Emma Mathieu from Windham had a 100, Paige Jordan from Hampden Academy shot a 103, Oxford Hills’ Riley Pulkkinen had a 106, Brewer’s Finnley Collins had a 117 and Hampden Academy’s Lydia Adamo posted a 119.
On Saturday, Lincoln Academy won its first ever state B title, producing a 317, which was nine shots better than runnerup Freeport. Yarmouth was next at 334, followed by Cape Elizabeth and Fryeburg Academy at 341, Lake Region of Naples (344), Leavitt of Turner (348), Gray-New Gloucester (351), Belfast (353), and John Bapst of Bangor and Nokomis of Newport (356).
Lincoln Academy’s Colin Mitchell was the medalist with a 74 followed by Freeport’s Ryan Savona (76), Gray-New Gloucester’s Harry Stone and Nokomis Caden Chretien (77s), Yarmouth’s Declan Hickey (78), Lake Region’s Brody Day (79), Lincoln Academy’s Drew Nichols and Lake Region’s Shane Plummer (80s) and Freeport’s Liam Nihill and Fryeburg Academy’s Sergio Trejo (81s).
Kathryn Peterson of Lake Region and Carla Ferraris from Fryeburg Academy shared the girls B individual title with 90s. Emma Kane from Cape Elizabeth shot a 97 and rounding out the top 10 were Kamilia Martinez from Fryeburg (99), Vivi Nemeth from John Bapst (100), Alice Korzekwa from Presque Isle and Kate Geary from Yarmouth (101s), Svea Kark from Lincoln Academy (102), Addy Dowsland from Bar Harbor’s Mount Desert Island High School (103) and Mya Betters from Old Town (106).
In the Class C competition, Maranacook shot a 317 and won by the slimmest of margins, one stroke, over Winthrop. Calais was third (328) and completing the top 10 were Dexter (332), Houlton (336), Mattanawcook Academy of Lincoln (350), Narraguagus of Harrington and North Yarmouth Academy (352s), Orono (356) and Dirigo of Dixfield (362).
Jack Fontaine of Maranacook shot a 73 to finish one shot better than runnerup Ryan Farnsworth of Dexter. Drew Mertzel of Winthrop, Beckett Peabody of Houlton and Chris Johnson of Kents Hill shot 76s, Jacob Footer of Calais posted a 78 and recording 79s were Wyatt Corson of Dexter, Sam Corgan of Winthrop, Grady Hreben of Maranacook, Burren Absalom from Narraguagus and Isiah Barrett from Jonesport-Beals.
Kayden Allaire of Winthrop shot an 83 to win the girls championship by seven shots over Skylar Bard of Mattanawcook Academy. Presley Goodwin from Houlton was third with a 92 followed by Penobscot Valley of Howland and Kents Hill’s Caitlin Powers (98s), Averie Smith of Ashland (101), Chloe White of Fort Fairfield (109) and Rebecca O’Leary of Mars Hill’s Central Aroostook High School (111).