Karen Plaisier of Ishpeming tees off on Tuesday, June 25, 2019, at the Upper Peninsula Dual ladies golf tournament held at Pine Grove Country Club in Iron Mountain. Plaisier and Becky Cecconi of Iron Mountain finished second to GladstoneÕs Lori Shea and Green Bay, Wis.Õs Polly Anderson. (Iron Mountain Daily News photo by Burt Angeli)

By Iron Mountain Daily News

IRON MOUNTAIN — Lori Shea of Gladstone and Polly Anderson of Green Bay, Wisconsin, rallied to win their seventh Upper Peninsula Dual golf championship recently at Pine Grove Country Club.

Four-time champions Karen Plaisier of Ishpeming and Becky Cecconi of Iron Mountain shared the lead with Shea and Anderson at 151 after the 36 holes were complete in the U.P. Ladies Golf Association’s premier best ball-scramble event.

A countback on holes was required to determine Shea and Anderson as champions.

Plaisier and Cecconi shot a 4-over-par 76 with rounds of 36 and 40 for a three-shot lead after that Monday’s opening best-ball round. Shea and Polly Anderson tallied 79 (38-41) to trail by three strokes, but bounced back with 72 in the scramble round.

Plaisier and Cecconi totaled 75 on the second day.

Iron Mountain’s Lisa Harry and Sue Popp shared third place in the championship flight with Joan Smith and Sandy Glibota, both at 161.

Harry-Popp had rounds of 83 and 78, Smith-Glibota 84 and 77.

Fifty-nine teams from throughout the U.P. participated.

In other flight results, Pat Koski and Ann LaHaie of Marquette won the fifth flight with 97-99–196, edging out a pair of duos by a single stroke.