Presque Isle boys win first state golf title

The Presque Isle boys varsity golf team after qualifying for state and individual championships on Sept. 28. The team from left are coach Matt Madore, Gavin Dunleavy, Jack Boone, Cooper Boinske, Owen MacKinnon, Wyatt Young, Nick Lavigne, Grant Stubbs, Ean Roy, and assistant coach Jon Humphrey. (Courtesy of Presque Isle High School Athletics)

The Presque Isle High School boys golf team won its first ever state championship on Friday by shooting a 323 to edge Freeport by five strokes in the Class B competition at the Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro.

The A and C state championships are on Saturday. 

Presque Isle was the fifth school to claim the title over the past five years.

Leavitt High of Turner’s Jade Haylock won her third consecutive B girls individual title as she shot a 73.

Nokomis of Newport was third with a 332 followed by Yarmouth (342), Cony High of Augusta (350), Gardiner (360), Lawrence of Fairfield (361), Mount Desert Island (363), Caribou (374) and Gray-New Gloucester (377).

Freeport’s Eli Spaulding was the individual winner for the third straight year with a 70. Gardiner’s Jack Quinn was second as he was a year ago. He shot a 73.

Kellen Adickes of Newcastle’s Lincoln Academy was third with a 74.

Alex Grant of Nokomis and Noah McLellan of Oceanside in Rockland tied for fourth with 77s.

Presque Isle’s Grant Stubbs and Gardiner’s Austin Gould shot 78s; Presque Isle’s Owen MacKinnon and MDI’s Caden Braun shot 79s and Nokomis’ S.J. Welch and Caden Chretien and Yarmouth’s Sebastien Martinez finished with 80s.