SC Wins 3rd Consecutive Crown Cup
Charlotte, N.C., October 24, 2000 - The Third Annual Crown Cup Junior Invitational Golf Tournament was completed on Sunday, October 22nd with the team from South Carolina capturing their third consecutive Crown Cup title. South Carolina defeated North Carolina 48 1/2 to 47 1/2 in the closest Crown Cup competition to date.

The tournament, which was held at Skybrook Golf Club in Huntersville, NC, was punctuated by outstanding play and sportsmanship from both teams. Other highlights from the two day match-play tournament were the appearance of WFNZ Sports Radio 610 AM personalities for a live remote broadcast, an appearance by Charlotte Hornets team mascot, Hugo, and a golf clinic by a Canadian PGA Professional and Tear Drop tour player, Steven Woodard, himself a product of Charlotte junior golf.

The Crown Cup is the brainchild of the Charlotte Regional Sports Commission, which promotes the event and handles all event operations. Begun in 1998, the Crown Cup brings together forty elite junior golfers from North Carolina and pits them against forty elite junior golfers from South Carolina in a Ryder Cup style format. The participants are selected by their respective junior golf associations and placed into age brackets. The boys compete in three groups (11 & Under, 12-13, 14-17), and the girls compete in two groups (13 & Under, 14-17). The Crown Cup alternates between courses in the two states, with the inaugural event being won by South Carolina at the Birkdale Golf Club in Huntersville, N.C. and the 1999 Crown Cup also won by South Carolina at the Waterford Golf Club in Rock Hill, S.C.

The 2000 Crown Cup was fortunate to have the support of many top sponsors for this year’s tournament: Bluegrass Ltd., the Charlotte Hornets, Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola, Drury Inn & Suites, Hops Restaurant, Mulvaney Properties, Nabisco, Paramount’s Carowinds, Pepsi-Cola, Precept Golf, Skybrook Golf Club and WFNZ Sports Radio 610 AM.

 

North Carolina			South Carolina
11U Boys		vs
Andrew Beck & David Gies			Marcus Ling & Crawford Reeves	1
Ramsay Quinn & David Ostrowski	0.5		Will Ovenden & Chris Marsh	0.5
Anthony Tsiolkas & Bruce Woodall			Phillip Knezevich & Michael Muscatell	1
Drew Page & Jack Fields	1		Tyler Ensley & Hughes Schwartz
12-13 Boys
Eddie Brock & Bryant Hare	2		Graydon McNair & Michael Selvaggio
Sam Holtsclaw & B.J. Kelly	2		Adam Sheriff & Allen Koon
Sean Plomaritis & Colby Price			John Bradford & Jamie Lightsey	2
Nathan Spoon & Blake Stark	2		Harrison Moore & Paul Woodberry
14-17 Boys
J.D. Bass & Jeffrey Cuzzort	2		Wil Hutchens & Matthew Minor
Kyle Dunlap & Kurt Hayward			Casey Thompson & Jeff Spencer	2
Justin Swanberg & Dustin Hussey	2		Matt Wiley & Rocky Reed
Justin Newton & Neal Jones	2		Mark Anderson & Chris McAlister
13U Girls
Sarah Almond & Blair Lamb	1		Laura Crawford & Emily Rapp
Anna Roe & Mattie Pufpaff	0.5		Ann Maness & Carmen Jones	0.5
Kristen Vincent & Brooke Goodwin			Erin May & Katie Garahan	1
Jessica Gay & Maggie Woody			Traci Bodner & Hayden May	1
14-17 Girls
Amanda Hallaeus & Jessica Hauser			Brandi Jackson & Lauren Smith	2
Kandy Carland & Alison Leeper			Erin Hallman & Stephanie Brown	2
Emily Simpson & Kristin Smith			Laura Parris & Julieta Jones	2
Sara Osborne & Stephanie Otteson			Dinah Plyler & Katie Hartley	2
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