Mount Greylock Places Fourth at State Championship

FRANKLIN, Mass. – The Mount Greylock Regional School golf team placed fourth in a 14-team field at the Division 2 State Championships on Monday at Franklin Country Club.

 

Jacob Hillman carded a 4-over-par round of 75 to tie for eighth place as an individual and lead the Mounties.

 

Norton won the team title with a combined 27-over among its top four finishers, two strokes ahead of runner-up Wakefield.

 

Mount Greylock was eight strokes behind Norton, with an aggregate score of 35-over.

 

Kai Nafiziger, Rodrick Rustay and Tanner Haig-Taylor rounded out the scoring for Mount Greylock.

 

Hillman recorded Mount Greylock’s only birdie among its scorers, breaking par on the 315-yard, par-4 11th hole. Odin Wojtkowski, who did not figure into the team score, birdied the 375-yard, par-4 17th hole.

 

Wahconah’s Kesler Anello finished tied for 12th place with a 6-over round of 77, and his teammate Logan Aitken carded an 82 to tie for 40th in a 104-player field.

 

Anello recorded a pair of birdies, the 138-yard, par-3 fourth hole and the 511-yard, par-5 seventh. Aitken also birdied No. 7.

 

Dover-Sherborn’s Jai Moulton and Wakefield’s Patrick Maloney, each finished at 1-over 71 to tie for first. Maloney went on to beat Moulton on the fourth playoff hole to claim the individual state title.

 

Team Scores

1. Norton, plus-27

2. Wakefield, plus-29

3. Masconomet Regional, plus-33

4. Mount Greylock (Jacob Hillman, 57; Kai Nafziger, 78; Rodric Rustay, 82; Tanner Haig-Taylor, 84; Max Wied, 85; Odin Wojtkowksi, 88), plus-35

5. Milton, plus-36

6. Hanover, plus-37

7. Scituate, plus-38

8. Newburyport, plus-39

9. Norwood, plus-43

10. Tantasqua, plus-45

11. Nauset, plus-48

12. Medfield, plus-57

T-13. Archbishop Williams, St. Bernard’s, plus-67.