{"id":1453,"date":"2008-09-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:40:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:40:52","slug":"smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/09\/29\/smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Smith &#039;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2008\/09\/72smith_6390.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2008\/09\/72smith_6390.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"72smith_6390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates College first-year golfer <strong>Lee Smith<\/strong> became the first Bobcat golfer to earn NESCAC Golf Rookie of the Year honors, and he was named\u00a0to the All-Conference First Team for his performance at last weekend&#8217;s NESCAC Men&#8217;s Golf Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Smith (Lexington, Mass.) finished tied for fifth at last weekend&#8217;s NESCAC Golf Qualifier at the par 71 Ralph Myhre Golf Course in Middlebury, Vt. The rookie followed his first-day score of 73 with 77 for a two-day score of 150, putting him in a four-way tie for fifth place with Jeff Cutter of Bowdoin, Jack Killea of Williams and Trinity\u2019s Jay Driscoll. Trinity&#8217;s Reid Longley shot a 141 to lead the pack, capturing his second NESCAC Player of the Year award.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Smith is the third Bates golfer to receive NESCAC All-Conference honors in the past decade, after <strong>Dominic Lee<\/strong> &#8217;04 in 2003 and <strong>Jake Cox<\/strong> &#8217;08 in 2005, but he is the first Bobcat to receive First Team honors.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and the Bobcats are competing Oct. 1 at the Thomas College Terrier Classic at Boothbay Country Club. Bates will host the CBB Championship this Sunday at Martindale Country Club in Auburn, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College first-year golfer Lee Smith became the first Bobcat golfer to earn NESCAC Golf Rookie of the Year honors, and he was named to the All-Conference First Team for his performance at last weekend&#8217;s NESCAC Men&#8217;s Golf Qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11012],"tags":[1758,11035],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-bobcat-of-the-week","tag-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89202,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/89202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}