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Home Page   Local News   Local Sports   Community Calendar   Opinion   Editorials   Columns   Letters to the Editor   Archives   News Archives   Sports Archives	06-07-2007 Joe Horrigan wins tourney Staff Report OLD FORGE Cooperstown senior Joe Horrigan won the end-of-the-year Center State Conference tournament in dramatic fashion on Thursday, hitting what head coach Dave Peplinski described as a "miraculous bunker shot" on the fifth sudden victory playoff hole. Fifty players from 20 CSC schools qualified to play in the tournament, including four from Cooperstown Horrigan, Gavin Harris, Tom Redding and Patrick Horrigan. Horrigan finished the 18 holes at Thendara Golf Course in Old Forge with a 75, which left him in a first place tie with Westmoreland's Taylor Brockway. The two golfers tied the first four holes, and Horrigan looked to be in trouble on the fifth hole when he hit into a bunker. "The pin was at the top of a hill, and Joe was about 25 yards out and stuck it four feet from the hole," Peplinski said. "A lot of the other golfers were following the two of them around, and the place just erupted in applause after he hit that shot." Horrigan made his par putt and Brockway bogeyed to give Horrigan the title. "It was a great way to end the season and for Joe to end his career," Peplinski added. Patrick Horrigan shot an 80, Redding an 86 and Harris an 89 in the tournament for Cooperstown, which won a Section Three Class C title and finished the regular season undefeated this spring.
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