RIVER VALE – Joe Furlong rolled in a 12-foot putt for birdie on his final hole to punctuate Midland Park’s dominating day in what has been an outstanding season.

The junior had the best individual score and helped the Panthers produce the best team total at Monday’s eighth annual North Jersey Interscholastic Conference Golf Championship.

Furlong had a stellar back nine and won the Division 2 title with a 4-over-par 74 at Valley Brook Golf Course. Midland Park carded a shoot-four, count-four score of 318 to repeat after finishing 21 shots ahead of Dwight-Englewood.

“Hopefully we can take this good score and continue it into states and counties,” Furlong said, “and then hopefully qualify for the next round of states.”

Midland Park is a contender to win next week’s North Group 1 and Bergen County Group 1-2 tournaments after carding a 318 that represented the second-best score in NJIC history. The record is a 296 in 2012 by Pascack Hills, which has since ascended to the large-school Big North Conference.

Furlong shot 2-under 33 on the back nine for a 74 that was three shots better than Dwight-Englewood’s Jesse Goodman. Furlong birdied the par-4 15th with a 12-foot putt and the par-4 18th with that 12-footer.

“Joey’s 33 is a remarkable 33,” said Midland Park coach Dick Bennett, “and for us to be the second-best score in [NJIC] history puts us in some rarified company.”

All four Panthers placed in the top nine in Division 2. Junior Mikey Folignani shot 78 and was fourth via match of cards. Senior Corey O’Keefe was fifth with 80 and junior Kyle Sansone ninth with 86.

“It was great because we had just lost and we kind of got humbled,” said Furlong, referring to Thursday’s nine-hole loss to Dwight-Englewood, 169-170. “And we came out better and put up a really good score.”

Glen Rock was significantly better than last year in repeating as Division 1 champion with a 331 that was 40 strokes better than Leonia. Senior Min Jun Choi won the individual crown with 75.

“Everything went as I thought it would,” said Choi, who finished seven strokes ahead of Eastern Christian senior Noah Hagedorn. “No surprises. It was just a well-rounded game.”

Glen Rock’s quartet finished among the top seven. Senior Spencer Jeffries shot 82 and was third via match of cards. Leo Taras tied for fourth with 85, and senior Sagar Ohri tied for seventh with 89.

“We definitely played well today,” said Glen Rock coach Dan Morgan. “Twenty strokes better than last year, and it’s always nice to see improvement. Good balance between the four players, and we’ll hopefully figure out a way to save some strokes for states and see how we do there.”

NJIC Championship

At Valley Brook GC, River Vale     

Par: 70; Yardage: Boys: 5,751; Girls: 5,119    

DIVISION 1

TEAM SCORES   

Glen Rock 331

Leonia 371

Eastern Christian 424

Ridgefield 452

Hasbrouck Heights 517

Hawthorne 567

INDIVIDUALS   

Min Jun Choi, Glen Rock 75

Noah Hagedoorn, Eastern Christian 82

Spencer Jeffries, Glen Rock 82

Leo Taras, Glen Rock 85

Khine Nunu, Leonia 85

Sabrina Jeon, Leonia 88

Sagar Ohri, Glen Rock 89

Piper Kim, Leonia 89

Clay Sietsma, Eastern Christian 94

John Kirk, Ridgefield 107

Junha Lim, Leonia 109

Christian Lee, Ridgefield 109

Steve Han, Ridgefield 110

John Wagner, Hasbrouck Heights 115

Antonio Grecco, Hasbrouck Heights 120

Bilal Meshanni, Hawthorne 121

Bobby Wu, Eastern Christian 123

Joe Ferreri, Hasbrouck Heights 124

Chase DeJong, Eastern Christian 125

Sarah Jeon, Ridgefield 126

Anthony Ramos, Hawthorne 148

Kaitlyn Melendez, Hawthorne 148

Ryan Alves, Hawthorne 150

Jake Schloemann, Hasbrouck Heights 158

DIVISION 2

TEAM SCORES 

Midland Park 318

Dwight-Englewood 339

Saddle River Day 356

Park Ridge/Emerson 364

Cresskill 389

Waldwick 470

New Milford 474

Palisades Park 481

INDIVIDUALS  

Joe Furlong, Midland Park 74

Jesse Goodman, Dwight-Englewood 77

Jake Zage, Saddle River Day 78

Mikey Folignani, Midland Park 78

Corey O’Keefe, Midland Park 80

Harry Kim, Cresskill 83

Erik Degelmann, Park Ridge/Emerson 84

Jake Khorozian, Dwight-Englewood 85

Kyle Sansone, Midland Park 86

Justin Yee, Cresskill 87

Eric Hahn, Dwight-Englewood 87

Scott Vandanassem, Saddle River Day 87

Brenden Marrero, Park Ridge/Emerson 89

Emma Lee, Dwight-Englewood 90

Erik Dunn, Waldwick 92

Zack Mark, Park Ridge/Emerson 93

Shaan Andalkar, Saddle River Day 95

Dylan Besserer, Saddle River Day 96

Russell Johnson, New Milford 98

Zach Papataros, Park Ridge/Emerson 98

Edward Kim, Palisades Park 103

Uriel Chung, Cresskill 105

Sean Johnson, New Milford 105

David Cho, Palisades Park 112

Kate Rostkowski, New Milford 113

Max Wilson, Cresskill 114

Max Cohen, Waldwick 117

Aaron Baker, Waldwick 122

Yunnah Kang, Palisades Park 132

Tae Hyun Kim, Palisades Park 134

Chris Youngclaus, Waldwick 139

Rajvi Patel, New Milford 158