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VASSALBORO \u2014 Maranacook senior Jack Fontaine has come through in plenty of big moments on the basketball court. <\/p>\n
Saturday, he came through on the golf course.<\/p>\n
Fontaine shot a 1-over 73 to take the Class C individual boys title and help the Black Bears win the team title on the Arrowhead course at Natanis Golf Course.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels amazing. I did not expect this,\u201d said Fontaine. \u201cIt\u2019s just a hobby, really. I just play for fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maranacook finished with a score of 317 to beat Winthrop by one shot. It\u2019 i\u2019s the third state title for the Black Bears, who also won in 2022 and 2024. Calais (328), Dexter (332) and Houlton (336) rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year was definitely different,\u201d said Maranacook coach Ryan Meserve. \u201cWe didn\u2019t play as well as we wanted to all throughout the (regular) season. We knew that if we could just get through one (good) day, we\u2019ve got guys who have won state championships before \u2026 The team is super resilient, like each other as a team. We knew we needed just one good day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winthrop\u2019s Kaydence Allarie shot 83 to win the Class C girls title. Mattanawcook Academy\u2019s Skylar Bard was second with a 90.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels really good,\u201d said Allarie, a junior. \u201cI definitely knew that I could do it. I just needed to stay consistent and play my game.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to Fontaine\u2019s round, Grady Hreben shot 79, Josh Herzing carded an 80 and Sam Dunton had an 85 for Maranacook.<\/p>\n
Drew Mertzel, who won medalist honors last year, led Winthrop with a 76. Also for the Ramblers, Sam Corgan shot 79 and Lincoln MacArthur finished with an 80.<\/p>\n
Fontaine has only played competitive golf for three years and wasn\u2019t thinking about winning the title entering play Saturday. He had birdies on the fourth, 12th and 13th holes.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday is just (the mindset) of you versus you,\u201d Fontaine said. \u201cYou\u2019re competing against yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryan Farnsworth of Dexter was the boys runner-up with a 74. Mertzel, Beckett Peabody of Houlton and Chris Johnson of Kents Hill tied for third at 76.<\/p>\n
Allaire said she struggled on the back nine, but her putting helped her out. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole front nine, I felt pretty good about my game,\u201d Allarie said. \u201cI think that definitely helped, because I got my numbers a little lower.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maranacook\u2019s Jack Fontaine tees off on the third hole during the Class C championship on Saturday in Vassalboro.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-878388","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\/878388","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=878388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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