Hawk Golfers Finish Season

EG BOYS FINISH SEVENTH IN BOONE SECTIONAL

East Greene wrapped up the 2011 boys golf season on Friday finishing in seventh place at the Class 1A sectional meet at Cedar Pointe Golf Course near Boone on Friday, May 13.

Ankeny Christian Academy finished first with a 336 team score and Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) took second with a 363. Both teams will advance to the district meet on Friday at Pheasant Ridge Golf Course in Cedar Falls, hosted by Northern University High School of Cedar Falls, along with teams qualifying from sectional meets at Grundy Center, Mason City and Elgin.

Final standings were: Ankeny Christian, 336; Northeast Hamilton, 363; Colo-Nesco, 388; Van Meter, 389; Earlham, 394; Madrid, 395; East Greene, 437; and Southeast Webster-Grand, 447. Woowdard-Granger participated but did not have enough golfers for a team score.

Zach Cousins of Ankeny Christian was meet medalist with a 76, edging out teammate Patrick Grasso, 77.

Earlier in the week, Ankeny Christian had battled Adair-Casey for the Rolling Hills Conference championship at Anita with Adair-Casey coming out on top with a 321. Ankeny Christian finished at 346 just edging out Glidden Raltson, 348, followed by CAM (Anita) 366, Iowa Christian Academy 377, Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira 390 and East Greene 402.

Three conference schools—Walnut, Orient-Macksburg and Paton-Churdan—do not field golf teams.

Taylor Wheatley of Adair-Casey was meet medalist with an even-par 71. Nick Kopp of CAM was runner-up with 79. Zach Hiller led EG with 87, followed by Harrison Johnston 96,
Alex Gordon 106, Sean Kenan 113, Tyler Cooklin 115 and Nic Nicolaisen 117.

The finish ahead of Southeast Webster-Grand and Woodward-Granger in the sectional meet were East Greene’s first varsity victories of the season, although the Hawks won a match against the Perry junior varsity, 193-221, on Thursday, May 5, at Lakeside Golf Course near Grand Junction.

The Hawks had a good showing on Friday, May 6, hosting Earlham and West Central Valley (Stuart) at Lakeside. The three teams finished within 11 strokes of each other. Earlham won the match 203, just ahead of West Central Valley at 204 with the Hawks finishing with 214. Johnston finished in a three-way tie for first at 48 with Dylan Watson of West Central Valley and Justin Brown of Earlham. A playoff was held to determine the order of finish with Watson taking medalist honors with Brown as runner-up and Johnston third.

Hiller had of his best rounds the following Monday, May 9, at Lakeside against Iowa Christian Academy (West Des Moines), tying for medalist runner-up honors with Conner Lively of Iowa Christian at 44 with Lively winning the playoff. His teammate, Conner Luginbill, was medalist as he lead the Blazers to 175-203 win over EG.

On Tuesday, May 3, EG faced Guthrie Center and Glidden-Ralston. Guthrie Center won the triangular with 188 to outpace GR 191 and EG 204.

East Greene hosted a boys quadrangular on April 29 at Lakeside while EG hosted the same girls teams—Glidden-Ralston, Adair-Casey and South Central Calhoun (Rockwell City)—at The Hill. South Central Calhoun took top honors in the boys match with 182, followed by Glidden-Ralston 196, Adair-Casey 197, and East Greene 239.

Only two of the four girls squads had enough golfers for team scores and GR and SCC ended play with identical team scores of 217. GR got the win on the basis of the tie-breaker, which is the best score for the team’s No. 5 golfer. Kinney was EG’s lone golfer and she finished with a 64.

Ankeny Christian Academy defeated the Hawks 157-211 on April 28 at Ankeny.

Playoff action for area girls teams began Monday, May 16, with the district meet at Newell with golfers from East Greene, Clay Central-Everly, Graettinger-Terrill, Glidden-Ralston, Laurens-Marathon, Newell-Fonda, Pocahontas, Southeast Webster-Grand, St. Mary’s (Storm Lake), and West Bend-Mallard competing to move on to the regional.

Newell district winners advanced to the regional meet at Graettinger on Monday, May 23, along with the winners of districts at Hawarden and Lake Mills.