BELPRE - The Mid-Ohio Valley Junior Golf Association concluded play for the 2012 season Friday afternoon at Oxbow with Warren High School's Zach McKenna laying claiming to the overall 16-18 age group championship and the $1,000 college scholarship that goes with it.
Meanwhile, Ravenswood's Alex Easthom and Parkersburg's Carson Okraska, entering fifth grade at Greenmont Elementary, took home first-place 2012 honors in the 13-15 and 12-and-under divisions respectively.
Although McKenna, who will be a senior at Warren this fall, finished fifth in Friday's event, he still was able to hold off Warrior golf teammate Steve Farley, who tied for sixth Friday, to capture the 16-18 title by a 146-123 point margin.
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Zach McKenna won the Mid-Ohio Valley Junior Golf Association 16-18 age group championship. McKenna won two tournaments this summer and tallied two runner-up finishes along the way.
Both played in all nine of the MOVJGA tournaments this summer. McKenna won twice, was runner-up three times and tied for second once, and also had third, fourth and fifth-place finishes. Farley received a $500 college scholarship for coming in second in the 16-18 division for the season, in which he had a pair of seconds, tied for second twice, and had two thirds and a fourth.
Austin Root was third in the final 16-18 season standings with 96 points, with four wins in the five MOVJGA tournaments he played in.
Friday's tournament winners at Oxbow were Sam Petty in 16-18 with a 75, with Sam Lang runner-up at 76; Garrett Bertram in 13-15 with a 78, with Coleman Lamp runner-up at 81; and Okraska in 12-and-under (9 holes) with a 43, with Logan Clegg runner-up at 46.
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Mid-Ohio Valley Junior
Golf Association
Friday's Results
Final tournament for 2012
at Oxbow
16-18 Age Group
Sam Petty75
Adam Lan76
Michael Sams78
Mac McCormick79
Zach McKenna81
Steve Farley and Hayden Plummer83
Ty Adkins92
Noah Smith, 93
Maggie Huck96
Brennan Schilling103
13-15 Age Group
Garrett Bertram78
Coleman Lamp81
Cameron Bosner83
Alex Easthom, Mitchell Eddleblute and Brent Ginther87
Max Fitzgerald88
Kyler Dennis90
Drew Wells91
Matthew Fitzgerald96
Logan Plummer and Chase Coe97
Trevor Gorrell, Jordan Welch and Dalton Smith98
Kyra Senchyshak100
Alex Branham110
Garrett Lemasters120
12-and-Under
Carson Okraska43
Logan Clegg46
Heath Hill48
Caleb Scharff53
Hunter Hutchison55
Blake Snyder67
Zach Mallett74
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Final Standings
16-18
Zach McKenna, 146 points (wins $1,000 college scholarship)
Steve Farley, 123 (wins $500 college scholarship)
Austin Root96
Mac McCormick and Mike Sams78
Noah Smith55
Adam Lang48
Sam Petty44
Benjamin Collie41
Brandyn Offenberger30
Brennan Schilling23
Ty Adkins19
McCaul Schilling18
Hayden Plummer17
Ryan McCarty14
Shon Smith10
Zane Enochs5
Maggie Huck4
13-15
Alex Easthom121 points
Coleman Lamp112
Max Fitzgerald76
Garrett Bertram68
Trevor Gorrell66
Cameron Bosner58
Matthew Fitzgerald38
Alex Perry35
Jordan Welch32
Randee Seevers25
Kyra Senchyshak23
Dalton Smith20
Drew Wells18
Kyler Dennis17
Whitney Milhoan16
Chase Coe and Mitchell Eddleblute14
Brent Ginther11
Andrew McGuffey10
Zayne James3
12-and-Under
Carson Okraska140 points
Caleb Scharff118
Logan Clegg105
Hunter Hutchison93
Blake Snyder77
Heath Hill54
Evan Seevers38
Zach Mallett19
T.J. Davidson13
For McKenna, who has played four years on the Top Flite Junior Tour, it was his second summer in MOVJGA, in which he placed second last year. He hopes to play golf in college. But if that doesn't pan out, ''I'll just go for school,'' he said.
McKenna thinks playing the MOVJGA ''is a lot easier, just because I know everyone who plays, while in Top Flite, I only know two or three people who play in it.''
McKenna, who began playing golf at age 6 ''out in the yard with my dad,'' said he's ''probably at his best driving the ball - I'm normally down the middle, and straight and long. My short game, though, needs to get a little better. My irons are decent; they're on and off, but when they're on, they're on.''
