It was hard to know what the best news was for Chattanooga Christian School at the annual City Prep golf tournament Wednesday at the Bear Trace at Harrison Bay.
Was it boys’ medalist Jonathan Xoinis continuing to emerge as one of the area’s best high school players, or was it co-coach Derwin Brendle celebrating the arrival of his fifth grandchild?
“What a good day,” said a smiling Brendle, whose daughter, Shelby, gave birth to a son Wednesday morning. “I wasn’t going to be able to hold him all day, so I came out here. But I am headed back.”
Xoinis, a CCS junior, only went straight ahead on the course, shooting a 4-under-par 68 to finish a shot ahead of McMinn Central’s John Houk and East Hamilton’s Miller Wick.
Sale Creek’s Ashley Holland shot a 75 to take the individual girls’ title over Boyd-Buchanan’s Lydia Campbell and Zacori Hill, who each shot a 76.