Dog fight brewing In Wednesday play

It looks like another dog fight is brewing in the Wednesday Night Men’s League, and it will be fought out on the fairways and greens of River’s Bend over the next several weeks.

Fresh off winning the first half of league play and sporting the battle scars and bite wounds to prove it, Wild Coyote golfers Dave Petteys, Scott Pardee, Gary Thompson and Howard Morkert shot the low team net of 139 last week, while Hagedorn Land Surveying linksters Paul Flemmer, Tim Harlan, Caleb Bates and Bernie Groshong shot the low gross of 167 to leave those two teams tied atop second half standings with 25 points apiece.

Bates led everyone around the Bend with a mighty fine round of 37 for best low gross, and Harlan factored in his handicap to arrive at the low net of 34.

In hole play, Bill Nolen was doubly good, putting his ball closest to the pin in 3 on No. 2 and downing the long putt on No. 3, Mike Baxter was closest to the pin on No. 5 and hit the long drive of the evening on No. 9, Thompson put the long putt to bed on No. 6, Harlan was closest to the pin off the tee on No. 8, and Flemmer hit the long 55+ drive on No. 9.

Rusty Sharp scored the only chip-in shot of the round on No. 8.

The standings after the first week of second-half play:

Wild Coyote 25

Hagedorn Surveying 25

Whitefish CU 23.5

Ty’s 22.5

Moore Oil 17.5

T-R-L 16.5

First Security Bank 15

Ron’s Running Dinos 15