Three Benton golfers advance to sectional competition

Staff Report

The Benton Rangers golf team missed advancing as a team but will send three golfers to the Carbondale Class 2A Sectional next week.

Seniors Branden Hammonds and Jesse Sanders will be joined by junior Andrew Simpson after all three advanced from the Mount Carmel Regional on Tuesday.

As a team the Rangers finished fourth with a score of 326.  Massac County won the regional with a team score of 302 followed closely by runner-up Mount Carmel with 305.  Marion finished 326 to grab third place.

Christian Seaton, of Mount Carmel, was turned in the top individual score with a 1-over-par 72.

Sanders turned in a score of 76 (5-over par) and finished as the top individual scorer not on an advancing team.  Simpson and Hammonds both registered an 82. Tyler Neal for the Rangers carded an 86.

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