For the fifth time in his career, Lewis Goodnow is the club champion at Edge Hill Golf Course.
The Mohawk Trail Regional High School golf coach defeated Mark Graves, 7 & 6, in the 36-hole title-match to capture the club championship in Shelburne Falls over the weekend.
Goodnow was a 3 & 2 winner over Ronnie Parker in the semifinal round of Championship Flight match play to set up the final.
Charlie Plesnar won the A Flight title, picking up a 3 & 2 win over Bret Bourman in the 18-hole final. He also won matches against Jeff Carantit (1-up) and Craig Leonard (1-up).
June Heideman shot 92 and won the 18-hole stroke play title in the Ladies Division over the weekend. Peggy Warwick’s 65 gave her low net honors.
CFC men’s club championship
Erik Barnes’ three-round total of 233 assured him a two-stroke victory over the weekend in the Crumpin-Fox Club championship in Bernardston.
Keith Burch was the runner-up with a total of 235, followed in third place by Tim Rice (238). Bob Bergeron (242), Justin Dion (247) and Cam Merrigan (252) rounded out the top six.
CFC women’s club championship
Terry Boyce put it all together, firing a two-round total of 157 to win the CFC women’s club championship by 15 strokes over the weekend.
Mace Foehl was the runner-up with a total of 172, followed by Marty Stinson (203), Corky Sysun (209) and Jean Simmons (224).
Foehl had the low net at 156, followed by Sysun (157), Stinson (161) and Simmons (162).
All good things must come to an end. And so it was at Monadnock Speedway’s Matco Tools night Saturday. It’s a bit of a cliché, but nonetheless true of winning streaks for Solomon Brow, Jake Puchalski and Todd Patnode. The Labor Day weekend program touted twin 40-lap features for the Sportsman Modifieds and the much-anticipated 12th straight win for Late Model Sportsman driver, Solomon Brow.
The round of feature races opened and closed with the Matco Tools twin 40-lappers. In the first race, Swanzey, N.H.’s Todd Patnode easily found his way into the lead on lap nine, survived three subsequent restarts and rolled into victory lane with his third win in a row, eighth on the season. Battling behind him for a share of the podium were Scott McMichael, Joel Monahan of Whately, and defending Champion Keith Carzello from Somers, Conn. When the checkers fell, Carzello had moved into second and Monahan took third.
The second 40-lapper concluded the night’s racing. Patnode drew the ninth starting spot to set the inverted start. That put Greenfield’s Ben Byrne on the pole with McMichael, Monahan, Carzello, JT Cloutier and Patnode chasing him. Cloutier tangled with another racer on lap 18 and slammed into the turn two wall hard. It was the second time this season his race ended there. On the restart Byrne had Monahan on his bumper. At the halfway mark, Monahan moved to the lead. Patnode followed soon after as Byrne slipped to third at the finish. Patnode’s three-race win string ended. Monahan collected his second win of the year.
In the 25-lap feature, rookie Willie Kuhn of Springfield had the outside pole position, and Brow started ninth. After a lap two caution, Kuhn pulled away from the field and rolled into victory lane breaking Brow’s 11-race win streak while earning his first win. Justin Littlewood of Orange was second. Despite starting further back in lineup, Brow was able to battle his way into third. Still, he has the distinction of two records: the most wins to start a season and a tie with two other drivers, Joe LeMay and Craig Gaudry, for most wins in season.
The Young Guns took the green for a 15-lap main. Matt Lambert jumped off the pole and raced to his first win. Jake Puchalski saw his eight-race win string end, finishing second. Matt Winter collected third.