By Fred Kroner
For the third time in school history, the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ golf team won an IHSA regional championship on Thursday (Sept. 30) at Lincolnshire Fields Country Club, in Champaign.
The Bulldogs recorded a composite team score of 370 strokes to defeat runner-up Paris by 40 strokes in the Class 1A event.
The other M-S regional titles in girls’ golf came in 2012 and 2014.
Additionally, M-S junior Ainsley Winters captured medalist honors. She fired a 3-over-par 75 and edged St. Thomas More’s Brooke Erhard by two shots.
Winters has carded M-S’ lowest score in all 10 meets of the season.
Bulldog junior Kayla McKinney fired a 92 and placed fifth in the individual field, which included 47 competitors.
Other M-S athletes who were part of the regional title team were junior Emma Dallas (10th with a 99), senior Gaby Davis (tied for 15th with a 104), junior Maddy Clark (17th with a 106) and sophomore Jama Craig (tied for 18th with a 108).
Winters, Dallas and Craig all shot their best 18-hole rounds of the season.
Winters, McKinney and Dallas were three of the 10 individuals at the regional site to break 100.
Seventeen schools had entries at Lincolnshire, but only five fielded full teams.
Following M-S and Paris (410) in the team standings were Blue Ridge (468), Monticello (475) and Villa Grove (604).
The top three teams qualified for the Auburn Sectional, which will be held on Monday (Oct. 4) at Edgewood Golf Course, Auburn.
