Yeo qualifies for Class B girls golf championship

HERMON — Foxcroft Academy’s Liana Yeo qualified for the Class B girls state tournament, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 10 at Natanais Golf Course in Vassalboro, based on her performance at the Penobscot Valley Conference Class B golf championships Oct. 1 at Hermon Meadows Golf Course.

Yeo shot a 97 to earn the second of three berths for the girls championship. Presque Isle High School’s Alice Korzekwa led with an 86 and Cate Brown of Mount Desert Island High School was third at 99.

Foxcroft Academy finished the 18-hole tournament with a final score of 37 for sixth place among eight schools in the team standings: 1. MDI 311 2. Presque Isle 329 3. John Bapst Memorial High School of Bangor 337 4. Hermon High School 346 5. Ellsworth High School 361 6. Foxcroft Academy 376 7. Old Town High School 386 8. Caribou High School 402. MDI, Presque and John Bapst all qualified for the B championship.

Thomas Day led the Ponies with his score of 86. He was one shot off of making the boys state championship as the top 12 qualify.

The team’s other golfers were Maddox Weidman 96, Christian Mumford 97, Liana Yeo 97, Zach Day 98 and Allie Kane 107.