UCHS golfers drop match to First Christian

BY CLIFF SMELLEY

Telegraph Staff Writer

Tucker Williams placed second for the Union County High School golf team, which lost at First Christian Academy on Sept. 5.

The Tigers had a team score of 231, which put them 14 strokes behind the Lions.

Williams made par on two holes to finish with a score of 50. That left him trailing medalist Brayden Pedersen by seven strokes.

Union’s Zoe Elixson made par on one hole in finishing with a third-place score of 52. Teammates Jordan Seay and Patrick Maxwell were seventh and eighth, respectively, with scores of 64 and 65, while Gavin Kuhn was 10th with a score of 76.

Prior to the match, the Tigers took on visiting Chiefland on Aug. 24, falling to the Indians by 60 strokes. Union had a score of 259.

Williams placed sixth with a score of 59, while Seay and Maxwell were seventh and eighth, respectively, with scores of 64 and 66. Kuhn shot a 70 for ninth place.

In a girls match between Union and Chiefland that same day, Elixson finished as medalist with a first-place score of 53.

The Tigers, as a team, lost to Chiefland, which had a score of 246 to Union’s 264.

Union got fifth- and sixth-place finishes from Katelyn Seay and Kerissa Seay, respectively. They had scores of 69 and 70.

The Tigers’ Madison Starling shot a 72 for eighth place.