Girls golf Eries Ashton Hale headline FRLs first league tournament

LONGMONT — Early-season golf tournaments can provide high school athletes with the chance to knock off the rust, as long as Mother Nature cooperates. She has not been particularly benevolent in the opening weeks of the spring season. On Monday at the Lake Valley Golf Club, the ladies at the Front Range League tournament endured the best and worst of the weather, starting out with frigid cold and wind before ending on a much warmer note. Despite the unfavorable morning conditions, Erie sophomore Hadley Ashton rose above the rest of the competition with the type of gameplay that makes elite…