By Cort Reynolds
ARLINGTON - The Allen East golf team won the 12-team Div. III sectionals at Sycamore Springs Golf Course Thursday.
AE won with 340 strokes, with Pandora-Gilboa nine shots behind (349). Van Buren was third (360). Only the top three teams and top three individuals not on a qualifying team made it to districts October 8.
Bluffton finished just out of the running for districts by finishing in fourth place (366), six shots behind VB.
Junior Kenny Lovett led the Pirates with an 18-hole round of 41-43=84. Lovett finished fifth overall in the 57-player field to qualify for districts.
Pirate junior Micah Minnig fired a 92 to finish 15th overall, six shots and seven spots away from individual district qualification.
Meanwhile, junior Wes Brauen carded a 94 for the Pirates to finish 22nd. Sophomore Jaden Coonfare posted a 96 to come in 24th, and classmate Jacob Boisvert added a 103 for Bluffton to tie for 36th place.
Mustang junior Zach Miller was match medalist with a score of 37-36=73.
Div. III sectional results
1st Allen East 340 strokes
1. Zach Miller 37 36 73
2. Carter Frey 44 36 80
3. Noah Brown 50 53 103
4. Elijah Lawrence 43 49 92
5. Cameron Hedrick 50 45 95
2nd Pandora-Gilboa 349
3rd Van Buren 360
4th Bluffton 366
1. Kenny Lovett 41 43 84
2. Micah Minnig 46 46 92
3. Wes Brauen 50 44 94
4. Jaden Coonfare 46 50 96
5. Jacob Bosivert 49 54 103
6th Arlington 388
7th Tiffin Calvert 391
8th Waynesfield-Goshen 396
9th McComb 408
10th Arcadia 424
11th Ada 454
12th North Baltimore 0
