Prep Roundup: Providence Grove’s Oakley places fourth in Class 3A golf; Wheatmore runners place in top 10 in state

SOUTHERN PINES — Megan Oakley of Providence Grove placed fourth in the Class 3A state tournament for girls’ golf last week.

Oakley shot 12-over-par 84 in the weather-shortened tournament at Longleaf Golf & Family Club.

The scheduled two-day event was off track because of persistent rain and reduced to 18 holes.

Wheatmore’s Kyndal Kindley tied for seventh place with 87.

Paisley Freda of Pine Lake Prep was the champion with 77.

Providence Grove placed fourth in the team standings. Adison Johnson shot 110 for 30th place and Olivia Coleman shot 111 to tie for 31st.

A week earlier, Oakley was the co-medalist in the East Regional at Washington Yacht & Country Club in Washington. The Patriots were the regional team champions.

Oakley’s 14-over 86 put her in a tie with Martin County’s Isabel Taylor and North Carolina School of Science and Math’s Yuwen He.

Johnson was fourth with 94 and Coleman placed 16th with 111.

** In Class 3A, also at Longleaf Golf & Family Club, Danielle Jaeck of Southwestern Randolph carded 23-over 95 to end in a tie for 18th place.

The Cougars ended up sixth among six teams in the team standings. Lucy York with 108 tied for 29th, Nauttica Parrish with 116 and Ryleigh Hineline with 117 tied for 41st. Sarah Shaw withdrew.

Randleman’s Layla White shot 109 for a tie for 32nd.

The previous week in the East Regional at Washington Yacht & Country Club in Washington, Jaeck shot 93 to place sixth. Southwestern Randolph was third in the team competition, with Randleman in fifth, with White’s 97 good for 11th place.

Cross country

Ayden Fitzgerald of Wheatmore captured a seventh-place finish in the Class 3A state meet for boys Friday at Ivey Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville.

Fitzgerald completed the 3.1-mile race in 17 minutes, 22.82 seconds.

In the girls’ race, Wheatmore’s Scarlett Hildreth placed eighth in 20:35.94. Providence Grove’s Laurel Bernhardt was 11th in the race in 20:56.94.