Anchored by Seth Greenwell, Bethlehem\u2019s boys\u2019 golf team earned a runner-up finish during Tuesday\u2019s first round of the Leachman Buick GMC KHSAA State Golf Championships at Maywood.<\/p>\n
Greenwell tied for fourth overall after a 2-under 70, helping the Eagles finish second behind Bowling Green with a team score of 291. The Purples were first with a 285.<\/p>\n
Owen Horton tied for 11th after an even-par 72, Kaden Puyear tied for 16th after a 1-over 73, Miller Osborne tied for 34th with a 4-over 76 and Thomas Newton tied for 56th with a 9-over 81.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem now heads to the final round of state competition, which will be played Tuesday and Wednesday at Bowling Green Country Club.<\/p>\n
The Eagles are in a grouping with Bowling Green and George Rogers Clark. Newton will be the first to tee off starting at 10:30 a.m. (EDT), followed by Osborne at 10:39, Puyear at 10:48, Horton at 10:57 and Greenwell at 11:06.<\/p>\n
There is no cut after the first day of play, meaning all players will move on to Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Breckinridge County\u2019s Lemuel Wright and Bowling Green\u2019s Johnny Brown stood atop the leaderboard at Maywood, with each carding a 5-under 67 to lead the pack.<\/p>\n
Bowling Green, Bethlehem and McCracken County each earned one of the team qualifying spots for the final round of state competition.<\/p>\n
In the girls\u2019 first round of state played Wednesday, Cumberland County\u2019s Kenzie Wilson earned medalist honors with a 2-under 70. She won by one shot over Barren County\u2019s Chloe Witcher and two strokes over Graves County\u2019s Emilie Miller.<\/p>\n
West Jessamine won the team competition and was followed by Bowling Green and Taylor County.<\/p>\n
No local players competed Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anchored by Seth Greenwell, Bethlehem\u2019s boys\u2019 golf team earned a runner-up finish during Tuesday\u2019s first round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,772],"class_list":["post-299008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}