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In its only home competition of the year, the Rockbridge County High School golf team placed fourth of seven teams in the first Valley District match this season on Wednesday at the Lexington Golf & Country Club.
The Wildcats, coming off a fourth-place tie at the 10-team Blue Streak Invitational on Tuesday in Harrisonburg, shot a 337 on their challenging 18-hole home course. Because the course will be expanded next year, following a partnership agreed to this spring with Washington and Lee University, there will be no more home competitions for the Wildcats this season.
Spotswood won the match with a score of 308 on the challenging 18-hole course, while Turner Ashby placed second with a 317, and East Rockingham (328) finished third. Following RC in the standings were William Monroe (351), Broadway (373) and Rocktown (392). Harrisonburg had two golfers competed, not enough (four) to record a team score.
TA senior Ryan Hutchinson was the medalist, firing a 68 on the par-71 course, firing 36 on the front nine and 32 on the back nine. Tying for second place of 44 golfers were ER’s Camden Clem and Spotswood’s Jacob Burkholder, both shooting 75. Spotswood’s Casen Chandler placed fourth with a 77.
Leading the Wildcats was senior captain Andrew McCoy, shooting a 78 to tie Spotswood’s Jackson Moyer and Amaday Mozheyko for fifth place, shooting 37 on the front nine and 41 on the back nine.
RC’s second scorer was junior captain Harrison Tanner, carding an 84. Freshman teammate Joe Vargas followed with an 86, and freshman Davis Welsh shot an 89 to complete the Wildcats’ team scoring. Also competing for RC were junior Dean Fafatas, posting a 90, and sophomore Finbar Looney, recording a 95.
The Wildcats were scheduled to compete in the Bockman Invitational on Thursday at Lake Monticello, but that tournament was canceled due to the forecast of rain. RC will continue district action with a match at Greene Hills Club in Stanardsville on Monday at 10 a.m., with William Monroe playing host.
For the full story on this week’s action, with comments from RC head coach David Miller, please see our Aug. 14 newspaper.
