Despite a medalist round of 35 by Hamden’s Pat Lynch, the Amity golf team upended the Green Dragons 152-165 last week at the Country Club of Woodbridge.
For only the second time this spring, the Spartans top four scores were all under 40. Alex Marieb led the way with a 36 and was followed by Kyle Barone (38), Brent Marieb (39), and Aaron Uscilla (39).
“It was a good match. Any time you shoot 152, it’s a good day. We recently shot a 152 against Notre Dame at Race Brook, but this is our lowest score of the year at Woodbridge. In addition, it's only the second time all four of our guys were under 40. They also did it against Hand at the Madison Country Club,” Coach George Taylor said.
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Amity also won two of three matches of a Southern Connecticut Conference (SCC) quad-match last week at the Farms Country Club in Wallingford. The Spartans defeated both Cheshire (162-167) and Lyman Hall (162-187), but dropped a close 160-162 match to Fairfield Prep.
Heading into today’s SCC tournament at the Race Brook Country Club, Amity sports a 19-3 record. With their wins over Housatonic Division rivals, Cheshire and Lyman Hall, the Spartans wrapped up a perfect 8-0 divisional record.
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According to Taylor, “I thought we played pretty well. Aaron Uscilla shot 39, which was only one stroke off the medalist score (recorded by Cheshire’s Gill Laasen). Our kids thought everybody shot OK, but they all thought we could have been a couple of shots better and defeated Prep."
"Prep has a good team and was just a little better than we were that day," Taylor said. "Considering that both Prep and Amity were not playing on their home courses, the scores were pretty good.”
He added, “Any day we beat Cheshire and go undefeated in the Housy is a big day for us.”
Barone and Uscilla represented Amity last week at the annual Chiappa Memorial Two-Player Best Ball Tournament at the Long Shore Country Club in Westport and recorded a score of 73. That placed the Spartans 37 out of 84 teams. Hamden’s R.J. Ugolic (who heads off to Trinity College in the fall) and Lynch (who will play tennis next year at Fairfield University) won the tournament with a 65. This is the first time an SCC team won this prestigious late-season tournament.
