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C H A M P I O N S WALLACE AND SERIO CLAIM COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS, RISING SUN TAKES TEAM EVENT
By Victor Henlsey
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Creek Golf Club wasn’t necessarily a golfer’s paradise last Wednesday, but that didn’t faze Cecil County’s best. Battling through frigid temperatures and howling winds, 40 of the county’s top golfers descended upon Middletown, Delaware, for the annual Cecil County
Invitational, the final regular-season event of the year for six of the county’s high schools.
To no one’s surprise, Noah Wallace, North East’s junior phenom, took both the tournament’s top men’s and overall spots, shooting a 2-under total of 69, eight strokes better than Rising Sun freshman Lucas Kilgore, who snagged second place with a 77 (+6).
Rounding out the top three overall scorers was Rising Sun senior Tyler Hogue with an 82 (+11).
“Noah really brings out the competition in you,” Hogue said when asked about being paired with Wallace. “You know he’s better than you and he’s going to win, but it brings out that drive in you to really try to beat him and play your best and score as low as possi- ble just to see how low you can get.”
Despite the Indians finishing with the top overall scorer in Wallace, it was actually the Tigers – aided by the performances of Kilgore and Hogue – that won the team portion of the county championship for the thirdstraight season, shooting a six-player combined total of 524, 59 strokes ahead of North East in second place.
“They played extremely well today,” said Tim Kerns, the Tigers’ head coach, of his team. “This is really the first time this season that they’ve had wind and cold and conditions to deal with. They came out and put together some of their better rounds of the season – and, in some cases, it was their best round of the season. I think maybe we need to play in this kind of weather more.” continued on D-2
Rising Sun had three of the top four overall scorers with Kilgore, Hogue and Johnny Waldridge (fourth-place, 85, +14), along with sub-100 performances from Bradley Deitz (93, +22), Jake Eckman (93, +22), Laidon Jordan (94, +23) and Ben Adams (99, +28), while Tyler Stout shot a 114 (+43).
