News Release

For Immediate Release: August 17, 2005

Headline: Massachusetts Turns In Third-Place Finish at 2005 New England Junior Championship

Brattleboro, VT – The seven-person team from Massachusetts finished in third place at the 2005 New England Junior Championship, which was held this week at Brattleboro Country Club in Brattleboro, Vermont.

This year’s championship was won by Rhode Island, who fended off a final-round charge from New Hampshire to hold on for a one-shot victory. Team Massachusetts finished in third place with 1,123 points.

Leading the way for Team Massachusetts were Colin Brennan (Indian Ridge CC) and Taylor Fontaine (Pleasant Valley CC), who both collected 219 individual points. Brennan, who finished third in the Massachusetts Junior Championship held earlier this month, was perhaps the most consistent golfer this week as he posted scores of 1-over par 72, 2-over par 73 and 3-over par 74. Fontaine posted the second lowest score of the championship – a 2-under par 69 – on Tuesday before finishing with identical scores of 4-over par 75.

Also competing for Team Massachusetts this year were: Antonio Grillo (Farm Neck GC), Evan Harmeling (Andover CC), Connor Wentzell (Tatnuck CC), Davis Mullany (Wyantenuck CC) and Zack Ungvarsky (CC of Billerica). Earlier this month, Harmeling and Grillo were victorious at the Massachusetts Junior Championship. Harmeling won the overall championship, while Grillo captured the Pre-Junior Division title.

The New England Junior Championship is an annual event sponsored by the New England Golf Association (NEGA) pits the top seven golfers, aged 17 or younger, from each of the six New England states against each other in this two-day event. The competitors competed in two rounds of 18-hole stroke play on Tuesday. A final 18-hole round of stroke play was conducted this morning to determine the 2005 team champion. The top five of seven scores count for each of the three rounds played.

Final Team Standings:

1) Rhode Island - 1,099
2) New Hampshire - 1,100
3) Massachusetts - 1,123
4) Connecticut - 1,140
5) Maine - 1,141
6) Vermont - 1,164