Bristol Central finished second at the Division I Boys Golf Championship on Monday behind Cheshire. Scott Petrosky and Brandon Frye received Division I All-State honors.
This season has been a year for success for the Bristol Central golf team. All year long the Rams have taken their claim as one of the best teams in the state and have been able to back it up in almost every golf tournament so far.
Bristol Central not only compiled a 15-1 one season, but they also received a Central Connecticut Conference South Division title, won the city championship over Bristol Eastern and St. Paul and finished second in the conference tournament on Thursday, just three strokes behind the Division II top-seeded RHAM.
In the city championship, the Rams totaled an overall score of 312 while St. Paul finished second with 358 and Bristol Eastern finished with a 407.
Bristol Central coach Tim Barrette said the success starts with senior, captain and All-State selection Scott Petrosky. The Rams leader has been a medalist in 14 out of the 16 matches and is currently the third ranked player in the state going into the State Open on June 10.
“He is the epitome of what you want your captain to be,” Barrette said. Golf is not a rah-rah sport. He leads by his stoic demeanor. He concentrates, but has fun along the way.”
Barrette forgetting the 15-1 record for a second, he simply has a great group of guys that are fun to coach and be around. He said they’re great to be around, but they also show up and perform on the field.
This season, the Rams ended with four All-CCC players in Petrosky, Joey Pikiell, Brandon Frye and Avery Philips.
Barrette said if you ask about the team's success, a lot of it stems from their freshman standout, Avery Philips, who finished one stroke off of qualifying for the state open. He said Pikiell has been steady all season just as he was on the basketball court and Frye has solidified the team all-around.
“They are grinders,” he said. “If they have a bad round, they are at the golf course that night to fix whatever is wrong. They are never satisfied. We finished second today and there weren't a lot of smiles because they knew they were three strokes from winning the title.
He said to be good at golf players have to put the time and effort into it. He said it’s not a sport that’s going to come overnight and this team has the bug to want to be good at that sport and because of that they are going to do some good things in the years to come.
“Who thinks of Bristol Central as a golf school, no one,” Barrette said. “I was really proud of the guys. We have really put our school on the map in terms of golf. The future is extremely bright and I’m really excited to see what they can do in the upcoming years.”
