By Cort Reynolds
ARLINGTON - The Allen East golf team won the 12-team Div. III sectionals at Sycamore Springs Golf Course Thursday.

AE won with 340 strokes, with Pandora-Gilboa nine shots behind (349). Van Buren was third (360). Only the top three teams and top three individuals not on a qualifying team made it to districts October 8.

Bluffton finished just out of the running for districts by finishing in fourth place (366), six shots behind VB. 

Junior Kenny Lovett led the Pirates with an 18-hole round of 41-43=84. Lovett finished fifth overall in the 57-player field to qualify for districts.

Pirate junior Micah Minnig fired a 92 to finish 15th overall, six shots and seven spots away from individual district qualification.

Meanwhile, junior Wes Brauen carded a 94 for the Pirates to finish 22nd. Sophomore Jaden Coonfare posted a 96 to come in 24th, and classmate Jacob Boisvert added a 103 for Bluffton to tie for 36th place.

Mustang junior Zach Miller was match medalist with a score of 37-36=73.

Div. III sectional results
1st    Allen East 340 strokes
1.    Zach Miller 37    36    73
2.    Carter Frey 44    36    80
3.    Noah Brown 50    53    103
4.    Elijah Lawrence 43    49    92
5.    Cameron Hedrick 50    45    95

2nd    Pandora-Gilboa 349
3rd    Van Buren 360

4th    Bluffton 366
1.    Kenny Lovett 41    43    84
2.    Micah Minnig 46    46    92
3.    Wes Brauen         50    44    94
4.    Jaden Coonfare 46    50    96
5.    Jacob Bosivert 49    54    103

6th    Arlington    388
7th    Tiffin Calvert 391
8th    Waynesfield-Goshen 396
9th    McComb 408
10th    Arcadia 424
11th    Ada 454
12th    North Baltimore    0