O'Neill Golfers Finish Third at Albion

Who say's lightning can't strike twice? On Monday, Emily Elsbury hit a hole-in-one on hole five at the O'Neill Invite and six days later Paige Gaughenbaugh repeated the feat at the Boone Central Invite. On hole number six at the Albion Country Club, Paige Gaughenbaugh used an eight iron to get a hole-in-one on the 125 yard hole. This is such a rare occurrence to have this happen once, but twice in six days is something special.  Paige helped lead the O'Neill girls' golf team to a third place finish at the Boone Central Invite in Albion.  O'Neill had all five golfers finishing in the top twenty.  Holly Hesse finished 16th with a score of 108, Nicole Lind medaled at 15th place with a 106, Paige Gaughenbaugh placed 13th with a 105, and Amy Schmitz placed ninth with a 101. Hailee Harmon led the team with a 99 and finished sixth. Winning the tournament was Amy Ahlers from Boone Central with a score of 75.  Team scores were Boone Central-378, Columbus Scotus-396, O'Neill-411, Columbus Lakevie-450, Wayne-456, Battle Creek-467, Fullerton-489, Stanton-508  and Oakland/Craig-734.        he O'Neill junior varsity competed at the Plainview Invite, placing in the top ten for O'Neill were Morgan Langan in the varsity division and tying for first place in the junior varsity division was Molly Atkeson.