Ashcraft 11th at State Seniors

BILLINGS — Polson’s Johnny Ashcraft closed with a third-round 77 to finish one shot outside of the top 10 at the Montana State Seniors tournament.

Ashcraft’s total score of 234 was good for 11th place overall, and best of the 20 golfers from the Flathead Valley that attended the event. Bigfork’s Carl Henry won the Senior age group by 17 shots with a total score of 252.

Cal Stacey of Billings finished at 219 to win the tournament by three strokes, topping Bozeman’s Lee Levine and Deer Lodge’s Gary Thompson, who each finished at 222.

57th Montana State Seniors Tournament

at Lake Hills Golf Club, 

Yellowstone Country Club 

and Laurel Golf Club

Final results

Top 10 overall

Cal Stacey, Billings78-66-75 – 219

Lee Levine, Bozeman74-71-77 – 222

Gary Thompson, Deer Lodge72-77-73 – 222

Jeff Allen, Billings70-76-80 – 226

Ron Maki, Missoula75-73-82 — 230

Dan Brown, Billings77-76-77 – 230

Skip Ross, Fort Benton77-74-79 — 230

Bob Sainsbury, Great Falls75-80-76 – 231

Kelley Gaskill, Bozeman74-80-79 – 233

Chuck Thoennes, Belgrade77-78-78 – 233

Ben Schmitt, Montana City76-83-74 — 233

Local finishers

Freshman (ages 55-62)

Johnny Ashcraft, Polson80-77-77 — 234

Chris Vidulich, Kalispell82-83-78 — 243

Tom Brown, Bigfork79-87-82 — 248

John Zaiss, Whitefish81-87-84 — 252

John Weisert, Bigfork78-90-85 — 253

Dan Purcell, Bigfork83-91-81 — 255

Scott Smith, Coram99-81-85 — 265

R. T. Ray, Whitefish83-91-91 — 265

Sophomore (63-69)

Greg Barkus, Lakeside82-81-82 — 245

Gary Rodman, Whitefish89-81-85 — 255

Mike Jones, Bigfork86-89-87 — 262

Bent Petersen, Bigfork89-84-99 — 272

James Valentino, Bigfork98-87-89 — 274

Robert Kimball, Bigfork96-95-99 — 290

Bob Stolzenbach, Kalispell83-92-WD — WD

Junior (70-77)

Jim Hansen, Bigfork88-84-85 — 257

Larry Robinson, Bigfork85-93-80 — 258

Dale Haarr Sr., Kalispell88-86-86 — 260

Dave Hilde, Bigfork87-101-87 — 275

Senior (78 and over)

Carl Henry, Bigfork86-80-86 — 252