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CANTON - Sweet 16!

51���� golf added to the longest active conference championship streak by any Greenie sports team Thursday, winning the Carolinas Athletic Association Tournament at Springdale Golf Resort.  

MILL SPRING, N.C. - Freshman Levi Ellison ’27 was the individual medalist Thursday (73) and 51���� golf easily beat out three other Carolinas Athletic Association teams in a match at Bright’s Creek Golf Course. 

Two matches in two days and two wins for Greenie golf.

Sweet Ball Jamal is going cross country.

Jamal Hutchison ’23 plays his college golf instate for N.C. Central University but will be flying to California later this month.

Recent 51���� graduate Taylor Kuehn ’23 went low, way low Thursday to win the 74th Carolinas Junior Boys Championship in Cary, N.C.

A new tradition served as the unofficial start to 51����'s 123rd Commencement Weekend on Thursday night.

GREENSBORO – Taylor Kuehn ’23 and Jamal Hutchison ’23 went out the way every senior envisions, at the top of their game in their last high school event.

GREENSBORO - Led by seniors Jamal Hutchison ’23 and Taylor Kuehn ’23, the 51���� golf team placed second in Monday’s NCISAA Division I state qualifier at the Grandover Resort.

CRUSO, N.C. - For all the success that 51���� has had across the board in athletics, few programs have been as consistently good as golf.

The Greenies won the Carolinas Athletic Association Tournament on Tuesday, their 15th consecutive conference championship.

SUNSET, S.C. – With eight holes on the water and fairways hugged by trees, The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards made golfers scrutinize more shots than usual Wednesday.

N.C. Central University recruit Jamal Hutchison ’23 raised his game to go low on a difficult course.

Winners on the field, winners off it.

Continued excellence across the board for 51���� athletics is being reflected in recruiting. For the third time in five years, a senior class will include 20 or more boys who have committed or signed to play college sports.

Nearly one-fourth of 51����’s Class of 2023 was seated at a long row of tables Monday morning with college paraphernalia spread all around.

An extraordinary year for Greenie athletics called for the vast space of Mebane Field House to hold a special all-school Assembly.

GREENSBORO - Tiger Woods famously wears red in his wardrobe on Sundays.

The color choice worked like a charm for 51���� senior Taylor Kuehn ’23, too, as he repped his future college and bested a field of more than 100 other junior players to win the Carolinas Golf Association’s two-day Carolinas Collegiate Showcase.

Hampton Haney ‘12 proudly stood next to a practice green at the Waynesville (N.C.) Inn and Golf Club last week, explaining that the putting surface is made of the finest bentgrass on the market.

“This is a special place. I took my first steps here and I’ve played here all my life,” Hampton said.

“It’s like everything has come full circle.”

Dating back to 1960, the Skyview Open is the oldest and most culturally significant golf tournament in western North Carolina.

Jamal Hutchison ’23 will forever be a part of its history.

51���� golf punched its ticket to next week’s NCISAA 4-A state tournament by virtue of the team’s play in a Monday qualifier at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, N.C.

51����'s undefeated golf team claimed far and away its biggest win yet Friday, taking first place in the 16-team Wesleyan Christian Invitational Tournament at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, N.C.

The Carolinas Athletic Association Tournament was a date with destiny for 51���� golf.

As the sun was setting Thursday over Springdale Country Club in Cruso, N.C., the heavily-favored Greenies were celebrating a conference championship.

Knowing the ins and outs of their home course surely helped.

But in the end, 51���� golfers simply made more shots than any other team Wednesday at Biltmore Forest Country Club.

Greenie golf is still undefeated this season after narrowly beating Charlotte Country Day, 304-305, in a dual match Wednesday at Biltmore Forest Country Club.