MOULTRIE — Pierce County’s Bears golf team posted an 8th-place finish here Saturday at Sunset Country Club in the 30-team Packer Invitational hosted by Colquitt County.
Class 6A Lowndes “A” shot a 301 team score to best the field. Lowndes “B” was second with a 312. Rounding out the Top 10 teams were Class 6A host Colquitt County “A” (313), Class 5A Coffee (313), Class 6A North Paulding “A” (313), Class 4A Allatoona (324), Class A Private Prince Avenue Christian (324), Class 2A PCHS (329), Class 3A North Hall “A” (332) and Class 6A Camden County (333).
Finishing 11-20 were Class 5A Rome (334), Class 5A Lee County (336), Class A DI Toombs County (338), Class A DI Berrien (339), Class 3A Oconee County (341), Class 5A Thomas County Central (343), Class 6A Parkview (344), North Hall “B” (346), Class 4A Ware County (351), Class 6A Hillgrove (351) and Class 3A Bainbridge (351).
The rest of the field included Class 1A DI Banks County (352), North Paulding “B” (352), Class 6A Tift County (359), Class 3A Cairo (366), Class A DI Thomasville (367), Class 7A Smiths Station, Ala. (368), Class 4A Wayne County (376), Class A DII Seminole County (400) and GIAA Grace Christian (401).
GIAA member Brookwood of Thomasville brought two players and Colquitt County “B” had three players.
Coffee’s J.P. Spivey captured medalist honors in the field of 153 players with a oneunder- par score of 71.
Bennett Puryear was the lone PCHS linkster with a sub-80 round shooting 78 to finish in a seven-player logjam for 16th-place. Hardt Strickland posted a score of 80 tying with three other golfers for 31st.
Justin Smith recorded a round of 84 to finish in a five-way tie for 58th. Beau Strickland carded an 87 finishing in a nineway tie for 72nd. Griffin Hull posted an 88 finishing in a 10-way tie for 81st.
