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staff report
Lance
Lucas of Union achieved a rare Northern Kentucky golfing double by
winning Sunday's Northern Kentucky Mid-Amateur Championship at Eagle
Creek County Club in Grant County.
Lucas, a winner by two strokes ahead of runner-up Rob Clarke
(135), also won the Northern Kentucky Men's Amateur in July at Flagg
Springs Golf Course after a six-hole playoff battle with Sy Mandel.
Lucas carded a 65 on Saturday and followed up with a 68 Sunday to
win the championship flight. Tom Fuldner and Chad Creech finished
tied for third in the championship flight with two-day scores of
136.
Bob Kohlman won the first-flight handicap competition via
scorecard playoff with an 18-hole score of 67. Kohlman carries a 3
handicap. Randy Suttles (8 handicap) and Skip Goley (7 handicap)
finished tied for second, carding matching 67s.
Ed Wiehoff (13 handicap) won the 36-hole second flight handicap
division with a score of 128. That was two shots better than
second-flight runners-up David Schiebly and Roger Davis, each of
whom carded a 130.
Results from the Northern Kentucky Mid-Amateur Championship
played at Eagle Creek County Club in Grant County.
Championship flight
133 -- Lance Lucas; 135 -- Rob Clarke; 136 -- Tom Fuldner;
Chad Creech -- 137; 139 -- Tim Hartig, James Sweeney; 141 -- Sy
Mandel; 142 -- Scott Hansel, Matt Bowlin; 145 -- Gary Herfel, Jeff
Floyd; 146 -- Bob Schultz. Jeff Egger; 147 -- Mike Camacho, Ed
Martin; 151 -- Eric Wehrman; 152 -- Mark Cucura; 153 -- Greg Poore;
159 -- Mickey Trusty, Steve Ahlers; 173 -- Carl Simpson.
First Flight (handicap in parenthesis)
67 -- Skip Goley (7), Bob Kohlman (3), Randy Suttles (8); 68
-- Tony Varner (5); 69 -- David Gastright (5); 70 -- Stephen Bates
(6); Terry Long (5); Tom Ryan (7); 71 -- Joe Florence (8), Doug
James (7), Mike Lehkamp (9); Blair Trusty (7); 72 -- Rob Flanagan
(4); 73 -- Jeff Gerrien (7); 75 -- Don Scalf (5); 78 -- Ben Russell
(6); 81 -- Dennis West (3).
Second Flight (handicap in parenthesis)
128 -- Ed Wiehoff (13); 130 -- Roger Davis (16); David
Schiebly (7); 135 -- Gary Edwards (11), Henry Martin (8); 136 --
Dennis Deaton (25), Dan Maher (8); 141 -- Marcus Camacho (7), Ken
Conley (14), Tim Kellam (8); 143 -- Kyle Haney (10), Rich Ziegler
(9); 153 -- Stan Farmer (12); 158 -- Dan Ziegler (12); 16 -- Gary
Donaldson (27).
COVCATH SECOND -- Covington Catholic, last year's state
high school runner-up in boys' golf, opened its season by finishing
tied for second behind defending state champion Louisville St.
Xavier in the Pikeville Invitational on Saturday.
Sophomore Alex Volpenhein carded the Colonels' lowest score and
finished in a tie for third with even-par-70. Jay Sutton was next
for the Colonels with a 72.
Other CovCath scores: Greg Turcotte 75, Alex Rechtin 77, Joe
Landrum 78.
TEAM SCORES: Louisville St. Xavier 227, Covington Catholic 294,
Clark County 294, Daviess County 295, Louisville Trinity 300, Hazard
207, Pikeville 209, Paintsville 311, Taylor 328, Somerset 331,
Johnson Central 343, Prestonsburg 343.
MEDALIST: Savage (SX) 5-under 65 at Green Meadow Country Club.
