GOLF: McDaniel pulls away for 4-stroke win at Nashville
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Pinckneyville junior Heather McDaniel cleared the rest of the field by four strokes to win medalist honors at the 2011 Nashville Girls Golf Invitational on Thursday, shooting a 37 (+1) to better Nashville's Shawne Rennegarbe in second place with a 41.
Rennegarbe's Hornettes claimed the team win, edging out Okawville by three strokes (169-172). The Lady Panthers were third (191) in the seven-team event that also included Carterville, Mascoutah, Centralia and Sparta.
McDaniel scored par on six of her nine holes Thursday at Nashville Municipal Golf Course to go along with a pair of bogeys and a birdie at the par-5 fourth hole, picking up right where she left off after a stellar summer season on the Southern Illinois Golf Association's Junior Tour.
Olivia Mathis (50), Brooke Heisner (51) and Alexis Anderson (53) completed Pinckneyville's score of 191. First-year players Britney Thomas (54) and Sarah Carlson (61) also competed for the Lady Panthers at Nashville, the season-opening event for the girls' squad which is in its' first season under new head coach Nolan Kellerman.
Up next for PCHS's girls (4-2) is a match at Herrin with the Lady Tigers and Harrisburg on Monday at 4:00 p.m. followed by a trip to Okawville on Wednesday to meet up with the host Lady Rockets and Breese Central.
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