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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
State Golf Tournament
St. Paul, MN
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It was happy days in School District 833 as the Woodbury girls and Park of Cottage Grove boys golf teams each claimed their first-ever state championships in the inaugural Class AAA tournaments, held June 3-4 at Bunker Hills Golf Course in Coon Rapids.
Also holding aloft its first state championship was the Mounds Park Academy girls team, which earned Class A honors by a full 49 strokes over Osakis at Pebble Creek Golf Club in Becker after two days of competition June 4-5. The Meadow Creek Christian boys team won the Class A title in a weather-shortened one-day tournament.
Royals win Class AAA girls title; Nelson claims individual crown
Woodbury won the state girls championship by 14 strokes over Suburban East Conference rival Forest Lake. The Royals carded a two-day team score of 678 on the par-73 course, while the Rangers totaled a 692.
Freshman Mary Sweeney led the Royals with a two-round score of 162, good for 11th-place overall. Sophomore Betsy Kelly’s ninth-place score of 162 led Forest Lake.
Eden Prairie finished in a third-place tie with Alexandria as each team scored a 699, one stroke better than fifth-place Lakeville North and two better than sixth-place Hopkins. Irondale (705) and Benilde-St. Margaret’s (747) rounded out the Class AAA field in seventh and eighth place, respectively.
Moorhead sophomore Ali Nelson won the Class AAA girls individual title with a score of 150, one stroke better Austin’s Catherine Wagner. Henry Sibley senior Lizzy Carl finished third with a 152, with Burnsville junior Natalie Samb and New Prague sophomore Steffi Neisen tying for fourth after each fired a 153.
Wolfpack, Barnhart, triumph in Class AAA boys tournament
Behind state individual champion Billy Barnhart and fourth-place finisher Beau Anderson, the Park boys golf team won its first state title with a score of 596, eight strokes better than second-place Edina and nine better than third-place Forest Lake.
Barnhart was the best of the senior grouping that occupied the top eight spots on the final leaderboard after carding a two-day tally of 141 — one stroke better than the second-place tandem of Alexandria’s Gordy Diekman and Apple Valley’s Tyler Eckenberg.
Anderson landed in a three-way tie for fourth place with Faribault’s Ben Kline and Mike Tuel of Fergus Falls as the trio each scored a 145. Forest Lake’s Peter Follese shot a 146 for seventh, while Bloomington Jefferson’s Ben Polland tied Chaska junior John Pavelko for eighth with each shooting a 147.
Chaska finished in fourth place in the team standings with a score of 609, Alexandria was fifth with a 613. Lakeville North took sixth with a 616, followed by White Bear Lake in seventh with a 627 and Anoka in eighth with a 640.
Orono shares Class AA boys title with Detroit Lakes; Visitation ends fifth in girls
With both teams shooting a 639, Orono and Detroit Lakes had to settle for a share of the Class AA tournament title that was played June 5-6 at Ridges at Sand Creek in Jordan. Winning the individual title outright by shooting a 151 was Robert Bell from Pierz.
Senior Zach Barnum and sophomore Zach Roach led Orono with scores of 157 and 160, respectively. Freshman Patrick Johnston and senior Dom Rosati each shot a 163, while junior Chris Hanson ended the tournament with a 165.
Benilde-St. Margaret’s, located in St. Louis Park, took third in the Class AA boys tournament with senior Jeff Jopling, shooting a 158 for an 11th place tie.
Mendota Heights-based Visitation took fifth in the Class AA girls tournament with a score of 764. The Blazers were led by senior Katie Maurer, who finished 11th with a card of 167.
Central Minnesota’s Minnewaska Area won the Class AA title by 54 strokes with a 643. The Glenwood-based club recorded the best team score of any of the three state girls champions.
Meadow Creek Christian wins Class A boys title
After one day of competition, Andover-based Meadow Creek Christian took home the Class A boys title with a score of 312.
Saints’ eighth-grader Andrew Peterson finished second in the Class A individual field with a score of 74, one stroke behind junior Grant Wayland of Bethlehem Academy.
Junior Kyle Westlake of Maple Grove’s Heritage Christian Academy took fourth-place with a 77, two strokes behind Martin County West senior Jarvis Weber. Meadow Creek Christian senior Derek Tessman concluded his high school career in a fifth-place tie after scoring a 78.
Mounds Park, Lansing, blow away Class A girls field
Led by state champion Natalie Lansing and four top-10 finishers, Saint Paul-based Mounds Park Academy won its first state title by claiming the Class A championship by a full 49 strokes.
Lansing, a Panthers junior, won Class A individual laurels with a two-day score of 161; Osakis’ Kelsey Ross placed second on the final leaderboard with a 169, with Providence Academy’s Sarah Utz taking third with a 171.
Mounds Park junior Lauren Hood and freshman Steph Aanenson finished fourth and fifth, respectively, as Hood carded a 186, and Aanenson a 188. Megan Kloeber was the fourth Mounds Park golfer to post a team-calculating score as the junior fired a 193 to place ninth.
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