GALLIPOLIS - The veterans did their job and the youngsters did the rest.

With returning starters P.J. Rase and Trent Finley turning in the top scores, freshmen Bryon Huff and Kyle Rase gave solid efforts as the Chesapeake Panthers won their second straight Ohio Valley Conference golf championship last Friday at Cliffside Country Club.

Rase was the OVC medalist with a 77 and Finley tied for the runner-up spot with an 80. But the Panthers found themselves behind in the overall team standings until Huff finished his round with an 87 and Rase carded a 91.

"Cliffside is a tough course. We were behind and our two freshmen helped us win it. I was really pleased," Panthers coach Dave Houck said.

"We lost our top golfer from last year, but we didn't seem to miss a beat. We picked up where we left off from last year."

The Panthers 335 team score was four strokes better than second place South Point which had a 339. River Valley was next at 379, Rock Hill 383 and Fairland did not have enough golfers for a team score.

Houck said his team is playing well at the right time of the season.

"We're playing alright right now. When we won it last year, that was something we'd been hoping to do for a long time and we did it fairly easily," Houck said.

Ohio Valley Conference

Golf Championship

Team Scores

Chesapeake335

South Point339

River Valley379

Rock Hill383

FairlandNS

All-OVC Team

P.J. Rase, Chesapeake77

Trent Finley, Chesapeake80

Justin Lewis, South Point80

Randall Sharrett, River Valley81

Andy Ray, South Point84

Kyle Hughes, South Point86

Team Breakdown

Chesapeake (335): P.J. Rase 77, Trent Finley 80, Bryon Huff 87, Kyle Rase 91, Andrew Copley 95, Tyler Angle 99.

South Point (339): Justin lewis 80, Andy Ray 84, Kyle Hughes 86, Tommy Walker 89, Chase McWhorter 95, Josh Jones 98.

River Walley (379): Randall Sharrett 81, Craig Jagers 94, Craig Barker 101, Justin Nolan 103, Bruce Stout 103, Joe Hager 109.

Rock Hill (383): Tyler Jayne 90, Nick Bryant 95, Nathan Wager 99, Michael Williams 99, Brandon Medinger 113, Chris Espinosa 132.

Fairland (NS): Ian Russell 99, Matt Leadmon 112.