East Central Community College’s golf team tied for fifth-place honors in the MACJC State Championship held April 13-14 at the Eagle Ridge Golf Club on the Hinds Community College campus in Raymond.

The Warrior linksters and Itawamba team posted a 618 score in the 36-hole event, won by Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Bulldogs shot 587 to edge Northeast at 589. Copiah-Lincoln finished third at 596 and Northwest was fourth at 616. Rounding out the field were East Mississippi, 620; Hinds, 624; Jones County, 632; Holmes, 651; and Pearl River, 658.

Trent Travis of Carthage led EC with rounds of 75 and 76 for a 151 total. Other Warrior scorers included Luke Brown, also of Carthage, 153 (76-77), Matthew Bochan of Franklin, Tenn., 157 (77-80), Neal Pettigrew of Philadelphia, 159 (80-79) and Griffin Burke of Philadelphia, 166 (78-88). 

Travis and Brown also qualified for the NJCAA Region 23 Championship scheduled April 25-26 on the Eagle Ridge course.

The ECCC golf program is led by James Moore, golf professional at Forest Country Club.