Orono prevails in Class C; Kempf and Haylock, Fahey and Flanagan individual champions.
Drew Bonifant
Staff Writer
Drew Bonifant covers sports for the Press Herald, with beats in high school football, basketball and baseball. He was previously part of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel sports team. A New Hampshire native and 2010 graduate of Northeastern University, he came to Maine in September 2016 after four years at the Concord Monitor, where he covered NASCAR, University of New Hampshire hockey and high schools and won a NH Press Association award for his work. He also worked for two years as a college co-op at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass. An avid golfer, frequent skier and consumer of sports, movie and music trivia, he’s a fan of the New England Patriots, Baltimore Orioles, Philadelphia Flyers and Miami Heat – and yes, he’s aware of how random those teams seem.
Golf: Individual champ Kempf leads Freeport to first Class B title
Matt Kempf and Leavitt’s Ruby Haylock earn individual titles in Class B, Waynflete’s George Fahey and Monmouth’s Abby Flanagan win in Class C, and Orono captures the Class C team championship.
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