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Golf: Sept. 22, Loss

Josh Benjamin, Staff Writer • Sep 30, 2010

Opponents: Whitman, Wootton and Richard Montgomery

Score: Win WJ 234 RM 271, Loss WJ 234 Whitman 214 , Loss WJ 234 Wootton 231

Highlight: Senior captain James Lillie led the team with a score of 43*.    *Only played nine holes

Player’s Insight: “Although the course was playing difficult that day, I really thought our team played well.” –Sophomore Evan Shapiro

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Record:6-8-1

Next Match: Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 3:30 at Montgomery Country Club. Opponents are Damascus, B-CC and Richard Montgomery.

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Josh Benjamin
Josh Benjamin, Staff Writer
Josh Benjamin is a sophomore at Walter Johnson High School. Besides doing hours and hours of homework and studying for tests after school, Josh enjoys playing guitar and piano. He hopes to start another instrument soon.  He also loves going on Facebook for hours on end.  He also wants to start a new sport this spring season. For the school newspaper, The Pitch, Josh has written for the online site and the print newspaper as well. He has written about upcoming HBO shows as well as having done interviews with students at WJ.  In addition, he has written about the Redskins on the online site. His hopes are to first, get into college, second, work hard in college and third, get a great job. His dreams for the future are (hopefully) to do something in the music industry, from helping record music, to learning how songs are produced.
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