LMA Golf team opens season with first place finish

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Laurence Manning Academy hosted Calhoun Academy and Cardinal Newman Academy’s Varsity Men’s golf teams at The Players Course at Wyboo in Manning for a non-conference match. LMA finished in first place. Grant Kinlaw and Lexi Bennett ended the match with 43 strokes. Van Gardner shot a 44 and Harper Epperson ended the day at 45 for a final total team score of 175. Calhoun Academy finished second in this event with low scores from John Michael Flintom with 39, Clay Crenshaw with 40, Pressley Smith and Garrett Phillips had 50 for a total team score of 179. Flintom had the low round of the match and was named medalist for the event posting a 9-hole score of even par 39. Cardinal Newman finished 3rd in this event with low scores from James Reedy with 44, Matthew McMullen had 53, Brace Land finished at 54 and John Darby shot a 56. Laurence Manning will travel to Traces Golf Club in Florence on March 7 for its next match with Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate.