Junior golf tour
Summerland’s Declan Riddle finished 16th during the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour series in Pitt Meadows June 3. Riddle, competing in the bantam boys group, shot a 95 and 85 for a total of 180. The next tour stop in the province is the Golf Canada-ranked MJT Odlum Brown Classic–PGA of B.C. Junior Championship at Northview Golf and Country Club, Cloverdale, July 15-17, a qualifying event for the FCG San Diego Junior Amateur in December. The non-profit Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour presented by Boston Pizza is Canada’s No.1 played junior golf tour as well as the only national junior tour run exclusively by PGA of Canada Professionals and the ‘Road to College Golf’ in Canada.
Gunners and Oliver score big wins
Matt Ford and Tristan Knowles netted hat tricks to lead the Summerland Gunners past DD Tours 7-3 in Penticton Men’s Rec Soccer action. Scoring for DD Tours was Herb Alex, Ben Chau and Nate Dunford. Oliver FC shut out the SunRunners for a 4- 0 win. Oliver goals were scored by Tyler Machial (2), Tim Grimard and Tyler Bourne. Kondolas fended off a late press by Beercelona for a 3-1 win.
Hole-in-one for Mackie
Bill Bidlake’s team with Frank Lippa, Les Proudfoot and John Hall won the Penticton senior men’s golf event with a score of 116. Runner-up with 117(-24) was the team of John Menu, Bill Christiansen, Stan Wiskel and John Zaparozan. Neil Mackie hit a hole-in-one on 10.
