UXBRIDGE – When Seekonk junior Aidan Connell hit his second shot on his fourth gap at Blissful Meadows Golf Membership in Uxbridge, he wasn’t initially pleased with the contact.
His shot didn’t get an exquisite arc, but it surely did get him on the inexperienced, the place he would sink a 20-foot putt for an eagle.
“It was a reasonably sick gap,” Connell stated. “It was an unlikely eagle, however I’ll take it.”
He rode the momentum of this to a 2-over 74 and received the Division 3 golf particular person state championship.
“It was a very good feeling simply to make it right here,” Connell stated. “Representing our college and our city is de facto necessary to me. To have the ability to come right here and win actually means rather a lot to me.”
Connell hit one birdie, 5 bogeys and 11 pars along with the eagle to achieve his rating. Hopedale’s Colin Haynes completed second with a 76 (4 over) whereas Manchester-Essex’s Grey West tied for third with a 77 with Outdated Rochester’s Luke Pierre and Jack Czerkowicz.
Whereas Pierre and Czerkowicz weren’t in a position to declare the person championships, their mixed effort helped the Bulldogs high the leaderboard within the staff competitors. Outdated Rochester completed with a cumulative rating of 323 (+35) and head coach Chris Cabe stated the staff remained “laser-focused” all through and that paid off on Monday afternoon.
“I don’t have to fret about these children as a result of they’re on the market and able to play and so they get themselves ready mentally,” Cabe stated. “They’re nice golfers out on the course, they know easy methods to put themselves in a very good place to attain and unhealthy photographs roll proper off their backs.”
Cabe stated the Bulldogs truly took two journeys out to Uxbridge for apply rounds because of the unique match being scheduled for Oct. 20 however getting delayed because of climate. Pierre stated he felt seeing the course twice actually helped him for the championship spherical.
“I didn’t break 85 in my apply rounds,” Pierre stated. “It was nice that we performed it twice and after we got here out right here at the moment, we delivered.”
Czerkowicz stated that the important thing to success was limiting threat and hitting one shot to arrange the following one.
“You’ve got to position the ball,” Czerkowicz stated. “For those who don’t put your self in a great spot, it’s laborious to make good scores. All of us performed fairly persistently, which helped.”
The 2 extra counting members for Outdated Rochester had been Brady Mills and John Bongiorno, who scored an 83 (+11) and 86 (+14), respectively. Ayer-Shirley completed second with a 331 (+43) whereas St. John Paul completed third with a 334 (+46).
Outdated Rochester had completed within the high 5 in every of the earlier two seasons and Czerkowicz stated Monday’s outcome was a fruits of that have.
“We’ve been right here for a few years up to now, and we’ve been brief yearly by two or three strokes,” Czerkowicz stated. “We felt fairly snug being right here.”
