Senior League Highlights

The Senior League started its last three weeks of the regular season in playoffs that paired teams 1-8 in the standings in a Gold flight and teams 9-16 in the standings in a Black flight. At the end of play, all the higher ranked teams with the exception of one advanced in the winners bracket. There were some squeakers. Dave Brown and Ray Shaw, the number 8 team in the Gold flight, took Mike Bird and Richard Swayze, the number one team, to the edge before falling by a single point, 7.5 to 6.5. In another squeaker, the undermanned Wayne Pearl, playing by himself against Jack Butcher and Rex Hudson, barely lost in a 6 point to 8 point match. In the only match that saw a lower ranked team triumph over a higher ranked team, Leroy Streepy and Joe Doyle, taking the place of Sam Potts and Bob Norris, took the measure of Ken Hudson and Carroll Rayhill, 12 to 2. Other winners included: Diane Bird and Wilma Bateman over Dave Strange and Clyde Wake, 11.5 to 2.5; Mike Anderson and Al Kavanaugh over Pam Byron and June Eckerle, 9.5 to 5.5; Charlie Sheetz, all by himself, over Bob Elliot and JD Faris, 7.5 to 6.5; and Dick Barber and John Chapman over Vic Wallace and Ward Smith, 10.5 to 3.5. All teams advance to the second round next Thursday, eight into the winners bracket and the other eight into the other bracket.

Hole prizes for the day were claimed by long putters Jim Bateman (#1) and Dick Barber (#4), and sharpshooters Mike Anderson (#7) and Jack Lents (#9). Leroy Streepy had the low net score of the day with a nifty 30 while Jack Lents and Jim Bateman tied for second with 32's. Those 32's got the Lents/Bateman team the low team score of the day, a 64. Low gross for the day was shot by Mike Bird with a 36; Mike Anderson, with three birdies in his round, had a 37. Other players gathering in birds were Diane Bird at #7, Jack Lents at #9, Al Kavanaugh at #2 and Mike Bird at #3. The average gross score for the event was 47.47, down .3 of a stroke from last week's average. In the standings, Richard Swayze and Mike Bird continue to lead in Team play though Lents and Bateman at 138.5 points and Kavanaugh and Anderson at 137.5 points closed the gap a little bit. In Individual play, Mike Bird at 591 points extended his lead over second place Al Kavanaugh by 9 points. Al's second place total is 550 points with Jack Lents in third at 518 points.