Notes on Thursday Match Play League

Charlie Sheetz and Tony Wease along with Richard Lemmon and Leroy Streepy head to the final round of the Match Play Tournament next Thursday after impressive wins yesterday.  Sheetz and sub Mike Strawn shot a net 64 and easily beat the one man short team of Joe Gray and Vic Wallace, 11 to 3.  Lemmon and Streepy did one better, firing a net score of 63, in throttling Wayne Pearl and Junior Byron, 12 to 2.  In regular season action, Ray Shaw tied Ken Hudson for the low net round of the day, each carding scores of 29.  Mike Bird turned in the low gross score with a one under par 34 while the above mentioned team of Richard Lemmon and Leroy Streepy got the low team net with their 63.  Hole prizes were claimed by Wayne Pearl with a long putt at #8, and by Mike Bird and Rex Hudson with close to the pin shots at #7 and #9.   With two weeks to go in team competition, Frank and Susan Fee and Jim and Wilma Bateman cling to the top two spots in the standings.  The Fees, on the short end of their match with Jack Lents and Mike Bird, 10.5 to 3.5, lead the Batemans by a scant two and a half points. The Batemans bested the team of Al Kavanaugh and Mike Anderson by a score of 9 to 5.  Lents and Bird are in third place eighteen points from the top with Pearl and Byron twenty points out of the lead.  In individual competition, with six weeks remaining in the season, John Chapman saw his lead narrowed to four points over second place Mike Bird.  Dave Brown, Jim Bateman and Jack Lents stand thirty plus points behind the leaders in third through fifth positions in the standings.  Complete standings, results and next week's pairings here.