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SR golfers win region title

Knoch's Danielle Sharbaugh, rear, celebrates with teammates after scoring the winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Butler Monday.

By carding a 325 in the District 10 Region 2 megamatch on Monday — led by Jeff Tracy's 77 and Tim Chavez's 78 — the Slippery Rock golf team captured the region title.

Slippery Rock won five of the six megamatch events, placing second out of the six teams in the season opener.

Grove City's Ryan Prokay earned medalist honors Monday by firing a 72. He was also named the region player of the year. His five best scores averaged a score of 73.

By winning the region, the Rockets will advance with five other teams to the regional finals Oct. 4 at North Hills Golf Course in Corry.

The Rockets' quartet of Tracy, Chavez, Brian Gielser and Shawn Beatty also qualified for the individual regional finals Oct. 7 at Oaktree Country Club in West Middlesex.

Prokay and teammate Steve Deyarmin also qualified for the individual region finals, giving the two schools six of the nine golfers coming out of Region 2.

Monday's megamatch scores:

Slippery Rock 325, Grove City 329, Hickory 341, Sharon 373, Wilmington 386, Lakeview 404

Slippery Rock (325):Jeff Tracy 77, Tim Chavez 78, Brian Giesler 85, Shawn Beatty 85

Grove City (329):Ryan Prokay 72, Steve Deyarmin 83, Kyle Foster 84, Jeff Revesz 90

Final Region 2 team standings:

Slippery Rock 35, Hickory 29,

Grove City 25, Sharon 14, Wilmington 13, Lakeview 10

Freeport 206, Jeannette 268 — Clayton Smith fired a 39 to lead a balanced team effort in the Yellowjackets' win over the Jayhawks at Buffalo Golf Course.Freeport (10-1, 7-1) will play Ford City at Lenape Golf Course today.

Jeannette (268):Jeremy Spor 45, Jordan Ault 49, Ryan Ault 58, Cody Milliron 58, Billy Avolio 58

Freeport (206): Clayton Smith 39, Kaine Mowatt 40, Zack McQueen 41, Neal DeCroo 42, Patrick D'Amico 44

Becky Smith totaled 11 kills and Amanda Huey nine kills as Butler beat Shaler 3-1 Monday night.Shayne Lantz added four digs and three service aces for the Golden Tornado (3-2, 2-2), which won by scores of 25-20, 13-25, 25-20 and 25-19.• A-C Valley defeated Oil City (3-0) and Brookville (3-0) at the Redbank Valley Tournament over the weekend.Kelli Davis combined for 13 service aces in the two matches, Erika Rothen had 12 kills, Samantha Kerlin managed six kills and four blocks, Karly Kaufman and Lauren Snyder both had seven kills and Meghan Cratty had three kills.A-C Valley's JV team won twice.The Falcons (4-0) travel to Venango Catholic Wednesday.<B>Plum 3, Knoch 1 — </B>Sara Montgomery had seven kills, four blocks and three aces, and Jessica Gross had 11 assists, six service points and one kill as the Knights (1-4, 1-2) absorbed a 25-15,23-25, 29-27, 25-13 nonsection loss.Knoch's match with Freedom scheduled for today was canceled.

<B>Knoch 1, Butler 0 —</B> Danielle Sharbaugh scored the winning goal for the Knights. No details were available.

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