Former Merritt golfer Roger Sloan picked up his third top-20 finish this season on the PGA’s Web.com Tour this past weekend.
Sloan, 27, shot rounds of 73-72-69-72 for a 72-hole total of two-under-par 286 at the Victoria National Golf Course in Newburgh, Ind.
Sloan finished in a four-way tie for 19th place on the tough midwest course — good enough for $6,348 in winnings.
In his second full season on the Web.comTour, the six-foot two-inch Sloan has earned $32,303 from 12 starts. His best result this year was a 14th-place finish at the South Georgia Classic in early May.
Sloan’s next scheduled tour stop is this weekend at the Nova Scotia Open in Halifax.
Local cowgirls compete at B.C. high school finals
Three Merritt Secondary School students managed top-10 finishes at the B.C. High School Rodeo Finals, held on the June 6 to 8 weekend in Falkland.
Leading the way was Grade 12 cowgirl Fallon Fosbery. The 17-year-old placed fourth overall in breakaway roping and teamed up with Westwold’s Cole Churchill to finish eighth in team roping.
Grade 11 student Resa Stoltzfus managed a fifth-place finish in girl’s cow cutting and an eighth-place result in goat tying.
Rounding out the MSS results was a sixth-place finish by Kelsey Kynoch, 17, in pole bending.
Bedard 22nd overall in Peach-land 10K
Merritt runner MJ Bedard, 40, was the third female finisher and 22nd overall at the annual Beach 10K in Peachland on Canada Day.
Bedard ran the fast course along the shores of Lake Okanagan in 44 minutes and 36 seconds, just over seven minutes slower than the first-place finisher, Scott Tremblay from Kaleden.
Bedard, a regular participant in the Interior Running Association’s road racing series, currently leads her age division (F40-44) with 205 points. Oliver’s Robin Levant is in second with 75 points.
In the overall women’s age-graded standings, Bedard sits in second place with 1,283 points. The leader is Kelowna’s Susan Templin (F60-64) with 1,335 total points.
Webster wins pole vault at Jack Brow
Competing for the University of Calgary Track Club, former Merritt Secondary School athlete Robyn Webster cleared 3.75 metres to win the women’s pole vault competition at the Jack Brow meet in Kelowna on June 29.
Webster also finished third in the 100 metres.
