Sports in brief . . .
Teams compete in state golf championship
Presque Isle High School and Fort Fairfield High School both placed in the top three at the state high school golf championships held Monday at Natanis Country Club in Vasalboro.
The Wildcats placed third in Class B, 24 strokes behind York. Yarmouth finished second. Caribou also competed in Class B.
The Fort Fairfield Tigers placed second in Class D, 28 strokes behind St. Dominics. Houlton, the defending state champs, finished third. Ashland also qualified for the event.
Robbie Watson shot an 85 for the Tigers. Dereck Dufour (86), Noah Bernard (91) and Landon Tate (93) also took part for Fort Fairfield.
The boys’ and girls’ state individual championships will be played Saturday at Natanis. The boys will decide champions in classes A, B and C, and the girls will have one overall champion.
UMPI player receives award
University of Maine Presque Isle junior forward Lainey Herring of Houlton has been named the Association of Division III Independents women’s soccer Player of the Week. Herring scored four goals in a 5-1 win at SUNY Canton on Friday. Coming into the match, Herring had just three goals on the season.
She followed up Friday’s performance with another goal as the Owls won 2-1, completing a weekend sweep of the Roos.
“Pace and power. That’s what she has plenty of,” said Owls’ head coach Dan Williams, “she played fantastic both games.”
