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Boys golf: Ben DeForest ties for 10th in the state
The greens were tough, impossible if a golfer found himself on the wrong side of the pin.
And the conditions during the first round of the state boys’ golf championship Sunday were even tougher at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Ithaca.
“It went from 82 degrees to 48 degrees in a period of 45 minutes,” [...]
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Pit stop for Section 9 boys golf team
Section 9 golfers will be on the road as early as 6 a.m. Friday morning.
Boys’ golf chairman Dick O’Neill set up a practice round for the nine state qualifiers at En-Joie Golf Club in Endicott on their way up to the state tournament at Cornell University in Ithaca.
En-Joie hosted the PGA Tour’s B.C. Open from [...]
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State boys tennis results: Section 9 goes 0-6
It was a rough day for Section 9 tennis in the early rounds of the state tournament at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.
All three singles and doubles teams were eliminated from the main bracket in their first matches.
Cornwall eighth-grader Ernesto Dillon came to closest to winning a set. Dillon lost an opening-set tiebreaker [...]
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Section 9 state boys’ golf teams since 1988
Here are the Section 9 boys’ golfers who have participated in the state championships since 1995:
* – Section 9 champion
2010: *Andrew DeForest (Rondout Valley); Eric Seitz (Wallkill); Rich Elliott (Fallsburg); Tom McHugh (Monroe-Woodbury); Rob McCutcheon (Wallkill); Ben DeForest (Rondout Valley); Conor McKallen (Washingtonville); Ethan DeForest (Rondout Valley); Joe Parker (Cornwall)
2009: *Andrew DeForest (Rondout Valley); Jeff [...]
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Section 9 boys golf notebook: Young DeForest mature beyond years.
Rondout Valley eighth-grader Ethan DeForest could have packed it in after shooting a 8-over-par 44. DeForest turned his day around with back-to-back birdies on the 10th and 11th. And DeForest didn’t blink in a playoff with Cornwall’s Joe Parker and Monroe-Woodbury’s Nick Marotta for the final two qualifying spots. DeForest birdied the first hole, a [...]
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Section 9 boys golf state qualifiers
Here are the Section 9 golfers who qualified for the state championships on June 6-7 at Cornell University:
Andrew DeForest, Rondout Valley senior
Eric Seitz, Wallkill junior
Rich Elliott, Fallsburg sophomore
Tom McHugh, Monroe-Woodbury junior
Rob McCutcheon, Wallkill junior
Ben DeForest, Rondout Valley sophomore
Conor McKallen, Washingtonville junior
Ethan DeForest, Rondout Valley eighth-grader
Joe Parker, Cornwall senior
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Section 9 boys golf final round: DeForest defends title
Rondout Valley senior Andrew DeForest flirted with the Casperkill Golf Club course record.
The record is believed to be a7-under-par 65 and DeForest had a 64 in mind when he teed off.
“That was the thought,” said DeForest, who shot a 4-under-par 68 and won his second straight Section 9 title. “The double (bogey) on [...]
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Section 9 boys tennis final and semifinal results
Eighth-grader Paul Hayes became the first Minisink Valley player to win a Section 9 singles title since 1991.
Hayes is believed to be the first eighth-grader to win a section singles title. He defeated Newburgh Free Academy’s Dennis Sult 7-5, 5-0, retired after trailed 4-1, 40-15 in the first set.
Sult had tendinitis in his chronic right [...]
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Section 9 golf notebook: Madeo in contention
Andrew DeForest knew Bo Madeo, his Rondout Valley teammate, was capable of shooting a low round.
DeForest and Madeo practiced together at Rondout Golf Club.
But DeForest wasn’t sure how Madeo would handle the pressure of making the cut at the Section 9 tournament.
Madeo passed with flying colors, shooting a 4-over 75, good for third place heading [...]
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Fenical headed to Division I Millersville