• Mike Ridley

of West Baldwin and Peter Grosso of Westbrook are among five who will be inducted into the University of Maine at Farmington Athletics Hall of Fame in a ceremony on Oct. 2.

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Susan Gilpatric Smart, tourney co-chair, Tom Chappell of sponsor Ramblers Way, Michele Davis, tourney co-chair, and Kirk Kimball, Webhannet head golf pro, helped raise $50,000 with the Putting Children First golf tourney Sept. 17. Courtesy photo

Ridley, a 1992 graduate, was a three-time captain of the baseball team and a two-time All-NAIA District 5 player. He was also a member of the 1988 and 1989 golf teams that reached the NAIA championships.

Grosso, a 1995 graduate, earned All-NAIA District 5 recognition in each of his four seasons with the men’s soccer team. In 1993, he was a Maine Athletic Conference co-player of the year and received USCAA All-America honorable mention status.

The other inductees are Chris Bessey of Jay, Debbie Gagnon Gendreau of Hampden and Candice Berger Parent of Oakland.

• Gwyneth McPherson, the lead trainer and director of the Pineland Farms Equestrian Center in New Gloucester, and Lawool, a 17-year-old Dutch-bred gelding, won the United States Dressage Federation Region 8 Grand Prix open division championship on Sept. 16 in Saugerties, N.Y.

McPherson and Lawool’s score of 63.23 percent topped a field of 10 professional competitors.

• Pineland Farms rider Carissa Lizotte, riding Cadence, a 3-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare, placed fourth in the training level open division finals.

• Putting Children First, a golf tournament hosted by Webhannet Golf Club in Kennebunk on Sept. 17, raised nearly $50,000 for York County charities.

Recipients were York County Shelter Programs, Caring Unlimited and the Church Community Outreach Program.

• The MaineLine Coalition’s Do Good With Your Game celebrity golf tournament, held Sept. 13 at Nonesuch River Golf Club in Scarborough, raised more than $25,000 for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

More than 130 golfers took part.

• Kerry Hall made a hole-in-one on the seventh hole at Willowdale Golf Club on Sept. 18. She used a 4-iron for the shot, which was witnessed by Brendan Hall.

• Ian MacDonald aced the sixth hole at Sable Oaks Golf Club on Sept. 22. MacDonald used an 8-iron for the 170-yard shot, which was witnessed by Larry Wichroski, Walter Fletcher and Mark Payne.

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