Newspaper Clippings

Wednesday, April ?7 1983 - .

TilE MERIDIAN STAn p age30 MJC Golfers Finish Third

The Hinds Eagles w n the Mississippi Junior College golf tournament at Briarwood Coun– try Club her e Tuesday with a two-day total of 641, 20 shots bet– ter than runnerup Pearl River. The host Meridian Junior Col– lege Eagles were a distant third with a 36-hole aggregate ..,, Cc&I, but MJC's Phillip Simmons cop– ped runnerup medalist honors

with a two-day total of 154. Simmons, who earned a berth in the nationals with his 75-79 ef– fort, would have easily won top individual honors had he not bogeyed the 3-par 16th, double– bogeyed the 4-par 17th and triple-bogeyed the 4-par 18th. Simmons will go to Lehigh, Fla. for the na tional Juco finals in June.

Gulf Coast was fourth in the two-day tourney with a score of 640 and East Central was at 735 Southwest at 739 and Co-Lin at 740. Medalist honors were won by Terry Price of Hinds, who shot rounds of n-75-152 over Br iar– wood's massive 7,000-yard layout.

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