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MIRAMICHI - The team of Doug and Susan Sullivan of the Country Meadows Golf Club will be gunning for their 15th father/daughter championship in the New Brunswick Golf Association Family Classic at the Miramichi Golf Club here today.

The tourney is a shotgun start billed for 11 a.m.

The Sullivans won their first title in 1988 and their most recent last summer. Their longest stretch of wins was six from 1993 to 1998.

Doug is the owner/designer/professional at Country Meadows and Susan is a first-time member of the New Brunswick women's interprovincial team this summer.

Earlier this month Sullivan finished second in the Diamond division (over 70) at the CPGA Seniors championship played at The Marshes Golf Club at Ottawa.

The Sullivans will start on hole 2B, playing in a group with Frank Brown of Moncton and his daughter Peggy of British Columbia, and Laurie Boucher of Bouctouche and his daughter Andrea of Moncton.

Champions in the father/son, mother/daughter and mother/son divisions will also be crowned.

Defending father/son champions Anthony and Steve Bielecki of Fredericton are also back in the field, as is the mother/daughter team of Kathy and Kathryn Meagher of Fredericton and Sue and Todd Eckstein (mother/son) of Durham, North Carolina.

* GRAND FALLS -- Herrick Hansen of the Aroostook Valley Golf Club defeated Guy MacKnight of the Country Meadows Golf Club in a playoff to claim top honours in the Grand Falls senior men's invitational here.

Hansen and MacKnight recorded scores of 3-under-par 69 in regulation play.

Pierre Boulet of the Hampton Golf Club was third at 1-under-par 71 while Mathy Winslow of the Kingswood Golf Club in Fredericton was 74, one stroke better than clubmate Frank Shannon.

Herman Steeves of Mactaquac, Ralph Judson of Country Meadows and Dave MacFarlane of Edmundston were all 75.