A week removed from their golf victories at the city high-school championships, both Lea Lemieux (Lockerby Composite) and Carter Baron (St Charles College) were up to the test as the NOSSA contingent converged upon the Lively Golf Club on Thursday.

Just seven days after posting the best ever SDSSAA girls score on record, Lemieux displayed incredible consistency coming within one stroke at NOSSA, carding a round of 76 (vs 75 at SDSSAA) to win the individual title going away.

“I played pretty well at both SDSSAA and NOSSA,” said the 16 year-old talent who qualified for Canadian Junior Championships this past summer in New Brunswick for the second straight year. “At SDSSAA, I was putting pretty well and made a lot of long putts near the end.”

In fact, it was a 40 foot putt for birdie on her last hole (#11) that broke the old SDSSAA girls record. “Right now, I am feeling pretty confident in my game - very comfortable,” said Lemieux.

“I would like to score around the same (at OFSAA), mid-seventies, but we’ll see. Either way, it will be a good experience; I’m excited.”

If Baron was a little surprised at his ascension to the top of the SDSSAA boys leaderboard as a grade 10 student last week, he might be getting more and more comfortable with the concept two victories in.

Though it was a different chase pack this time around, a score of one over par 72 was good enough to finish two strokes ahead of Ryan Di Salle (Lo-Ellen), with his teammate Mackinly Sobush another two strokes back at 76.

Consolation prize for the Knights is the fact that the lads took the team event in style as Di Salle and Sobush combined forces with Riley Graffi, Ethan Burton and Jake Harry to earn the regional honours heading into OFSAA next month.