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Fauquier's Price makes Liberty pay in first district mini
Fauquier High and Liberty likely won't fight it out for the Cedar Run District golf championship at the end of this season, but they've proved eager to take swings at each other throughout 2008, nonetheless.
The Falcons and Eagles battled again last Monday at Loudoun Valley Country Club in the first district mini tournament of the season. Fauquier edged out the Eagles 337-338 for third place, just a few days after Liberty beat its county counterpart by 10 strokes at the Combs Cup.
Meanwhile, Kettle Run played its second Northwestern District mini tournament since the Combs Cup, finishing seventh with a 358 last Thursday at Winchester CC after finishing seventh with a 347 last Monday at Shenvalee Golf Resort.
Aside a gripping Fauquier vs. Liberty duel, the Cedar Run mini tournament also affirmed everyone's suspicions that Battlefield and Loudoun Valley are a class above the rest of the district's teams.
Loudoun Valley won with a score of 304 to Battlefield's 306 and took an early lead in the district's season standings, while Osbourn finished fifth with a 355, Osbourn Park sixth with a 364 and Culpeper seventh with a 408. Stonewall Jackson did not field a team.
"It appears our district is going to be Loudoun Valley and Battlefield and then everybody else. Those two schools are a cut above everyone else," FHS coach Mark Ott said. "You want to keep it as close as you can but they each have six players that can shoot in the 70s each day. The rest of the district doesn’t really have that."
Fauquier and Liberty had one golfer shoot under 80 between them Monday. With a 77, the Falcons' Greg Pappas finished four strokes off the lead of Loudoun Valley's Brandon Deleonardis. Drew Smith added an 84 and Lisa Combs an 88, but it was No. 6 seed Colin Price's 88 that propelled Fauquier past Liberty.
"We were solidly in third place but one of Fauquier’s last guys [Price] came in with a lower score than usual," Liberty Eagles coach Mark Gorby said. "They ended up catching us in the end by a stroke."
The Eagles' top four seeds composed their team score — Walker Riley, 83; Sam Owens, 84; Stephen Massei, 84; John Nettles, 87 — so they were off the course well before Price and could only watch as he gave Fauquier the edge with his 88. The Falcons' next lowest round of 96 would have significantly raised their team score...
See the Wednesday print edition of the Fauquier Times-Democrat for the complete story.
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