{"id":219434,"date":"2025-10-12T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219434\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:22:12","slug":"cheverus-golf-rides-talent-and-depth-to-class-a-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219434\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheverus golf rides talent and depth to Class A championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\tMick Madden of Cheverus watches his drive on the fourth hole during the Class A golf state championship at Natanis Golf Course on Saturday. Madden shot 73 to win the individual title and help the Stags win the team title. (Joe Phelan\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n

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VASSALBORO \u2014 Cheverus golf coach Billy Goodman kept asking his players how their rounds were going. They kept responding with a different question.<\/p>\n

\u201cSam (Sirois), he was leading. He kept asking how the team was doing,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cEvery one of my kids asked how the team was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pretty well, as it turned out. Led by a 1-over 73 from medalist Mick Madden and a 75 from Sirois, Cheverus rolled to the Class A championship and its first state title since 2005 at Natanis Golf Course on Saturday. The Stags shot a 307, good for a 13-stroke victory over Falmouth. Messalonskee (324) finished third, led by Gavin Jackson\u2019s 79, and Scarborough (325) and Gorham (327) rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Cheverus was second last year<\/a>, and graduated three players from its top six. The Stags\u2019 rebuilt ladder flourished all season, though, en route to the SMAA title, and it was never better than Saturday. Sirois, a freshman, tied for second, Joe Mancini carded a 78, and Keane McGrath fired an 81. Mathew Paradis (82) and Garrett Thees (86) also had solid rounds, but their scoring wasn\u2019t needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re very close-knit for kids that haven\u2019t been together a long time,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cThey wanted this team thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madden\u2019s 73 gave him the individual title ahead of Sirois, Falmouth\u2019s Dante Iannetta and Greely\u2019s Joe Hansen, each of whom shot 75. Scarborough\u2019s Brett Kemper was fifth with a 76.<\/p>\n

Thornton Academy\u2019s Stella Foy took the girls title with a 90, beating out Lily Blanchard (91) of Hampden Academy, Lila Dailey (94) of Camden Hills and Lydia Jones (95) of Skowhegan.<\/p>\n

Madden, who was second in Class A as a freshman and third as a junior, took his turn at the top as a senior, carding two birdies against three bogeys. He finished in style with a birdie on the 18th sticking a 52-degree wedge from 100 yards and rolling in a 7-foot putt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe course was set up really difficult, I thought. But I just tried to tell myself \u2018Stay with it,’\u201d Madden said. \u201cThe team part was, in some ways, what I was really worried about. \u2026 I feel like we worked really hard all season.\u201d<\/p>\n

How much better did first place feel with the team doing the same?<\/p>\n

\u201cTen times better,\u201d Madden said. \u201cThe bus ride now is going to be so much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iannetta was in Madden\u2019s group, and at one point pulled even with him after birdies on the 14th and 15th. A bogey on 16 and Madden\u2019s birdie on 18 provided the difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hit the ball well all day; putting was definitely a problem,\u201d Iannetta said. \u201cWe kind of played together the whole way, it was really nice to have one of us get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iannetta\u2019s 75, along with a 78 from Clayton Casey, an 80 from Joe Graceffa and 87s from Dom Hau and Alex Novick kept Falmouth close. But Cheverus proved too much, thanks largely to Sirois, who led at 3 under through 10 holes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sam Sirois of Cheverus watches his drive on the fifth hole during the Class A golf state championship Saturday in Vassalboro. Sirois shot 75 to tie for second place and help the Stags win the team title. (Joe Phelan\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t really nervous. I just played,\u201d Sirois said. \u201cIt was important for morale (to start hot). \u2026 I didn\u2019t really think too much about (my) position when I was out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gorham\u2019s Eli Castles and Skowhegan\u2019s Eddie Goff (77) tied for sixth. Casey, Mancini, Scarborough\u2019s Nick Harmon and Bangor\u2019s Jacoby Harvey tied for eighth with 78s.<\/p>\n

The girls title went to Thornton\u2019s Foy, who didn\u2019t qualify for the tournament in her first year golfing as a freshman. As a senior, she recovered from back-to-back triple-bogeys on 14 and 15, her eighth and ninth holes of the day, and finished strong with four straight pars.<\/p>\n

\u201cShooting 90, that\u2019s not what I wanted to be. And I had a few really, really rough holes,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I definitely feel like I had some grit out there. \u2026 I\u2019m happy with how I stuck through it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mick Madden of Cheverus watches his drive on the fourth hole during the Class A golf state championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-219434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}