The Wildcat golfers capped off an excellent year with a fourth place showing at the state finals in Muscle Shoals. Fort Payne finished with a two-day score of 621 to trail Benjamin Russell, Homewood, and champion Muscle Shoals.
The Trojans won for the second-consecutive year, giving the section three-straights wins. The bad news for the Wildcats is that Muscle Shoals returns all but one player from this year’s squad.
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