- December 4, 2025
Flagler Palm Coast senior Sophia Stiwich won low medalist honors with a 2-under-par 70 and the Bulldogs won a playoff with New Smyrna Beach to place second at the Volusia-Flagler Girls Golf Championship on Monday, Sept. 29, at Daytona Beach Golf Club's North Course.
Spruce Creek won the title with a 339. New Smyrna Beach and FPC tied for second with a 365. The top two players on NSB and FPC played the par-4 No. 1 to decide the team runner-up. the Bulldogs' Stiwich and Ivey Tsouklaris shot a total of 8 to defeat the Barracudas' two players who totaled 9.
Seabreeze finished fourth with a 384.
Spruce Creek's Vanessa Perry and DeLand's Madison Dusenbury tied for second with a 75, five strokes behind Stiwich. FPC's top player shot an uncharacteristic 39 on the front nine.
"Sophia had a bad two-hole stretch but bounced back on the back nine with a (5-under) 31," FPC coach Patrick Kleinfelder said.
Tsouklaris placed fifth with a 78, two strokes behind New Smyrna's Elayna Harvey.
"Ivey was solid like always, just a par machine, and had a couple of birdies," Kleinfelder said.
Seabreeze's Jillian Heller was ninth with a 90.
