Burro Teams Sweep SEC Meet
Lanesboro’s golf teams took a broom to the Southeast Conference Meet (again), sweeping the boys and girls team and individual first places. On the guys side, Tim Opat’s group rode top two finishers Jack Brogle and Holdyn Willford to a 17-stroke win over Southland, 351 to 368. GMLO (369) took a narrow third followed by Houston (375), Kingsland (389), and G-E (458). Brogle (42/39 > 81) was not as hot as he had been (his last two in-season rounds were 33s). But he was six strokes better than teammate Willford (43/44 > 87) for medalist. Southland’s Kade Overocker (42/46 > 88) took third. GMLO’s Graham Eastlee (45/44 > 89) and Houston’s Logan Olson (44/45 > 89) tied for fourth. GMLO’s Lincoln Lunning, Lanesboro’s Grant Horihan, and Houston’s Morgan Rohweder tied for seventh with 91s. Southland’s Henry Wiste, GMLO’s Nathan Fretty, and Lanesboro’s Dayton Haugen tied for 10th with 92s. Thirty-four boys competed at the 18-hole, par-72 event, held at Adams’ Cedar River Golf Course. On the gals side, the Burros (387) out-shot second place Southland (452) by 65 strokes. Kingsland (487), Houston (491), and GMLO (523) brought complete teams. G-E was not full. The Burros had four in the top five. Sophomore Jentrey Schreiber (46/46 > 92) out-did teammates/sisters Addison McCabe (47/46 > 93) and Ellie McCabe (53/44 > 97) atop the leaderboard with Grace Tufte (52/53 > 105) taking fifth. Southland’s Claire Nelsen (51/52 > 103), who took fourth, was the only non-Burro in the top five. GMLO’s top gal Gabby Tangren tied with Kingsland’s best finisher Emily Sargent (112’s) for seventh place. Knight Reese Guy tied with Houston’s top finishers Lexi Weichert and Addie Kruse (119’s) for ninth place. Thirty-one gals competed at the event. Brogle and E-McCabe were medalist’s last year when the Burros also swept first across the board. Lanesboro’s teams have won the SEC Meet every year since COVID. They have the last three boys and girls individual champions.
Falcons and Lancers Win TRC Meet
Fillmore Central’s girls held off Caledonia, and La Crescent/Hokah’s boys proved their league superiority, at the Three Rivers Conference golf meet. Aaron Mensink’s Falcon girls swung the pendulum back in their direction versus their league rival the Warriors. The Falcons (362) topped Caledonia (368) with W-K (398) taking a distant third. R-P (463) finished sixth of seven complete. Chatfield was one of four incomplete teams. The Warriors beat FC twice head-to-head in the season with the Falcons topping Caledonia at the W-K Tourney. FC rode the senior twosome of Myleigh Scheevel (42/41 > 83) and Annika Mensink (42/44 > 86), who finished second and fourth overall. Caledonia’s Jazzlyn Hauser (40/44 > 84) took third, but Mensink topped Cal’s second golfer Hayden Harms (93) by seven strokes, one more than FC won by as a team. St. Charles’ Makena Millard (36/42 > 78) was the meet medalist on the back of her great front nine. W-K’s Jessalyn Adams (43/45 > 88) took fifth to round out the top five. Chatfield’s Brynn Tweten (90) took sixth. Caledonia’s other two scoring golfers, Alexis Sauer (95) and Maggie Herman (96), and FC’s other two scoring golfers, Maddie Topness (96) and Lily Miller (97), placed ninth thru twelfth. Six Warriors made the top 20, as Ellison Harms (101) and Emersyn Klug (101) tied for 14th. Chatfield’s Mya Henry (98) and FC’s Ella Diersen (106) also did so, taking 13th and 19th (tie) places. Forty-four girls competed at the 18-hole, par-71 Eastwood Golf Course in Rochester. FC has won every TRC Meet since the COVID-annulled 2020 season (five in a row). On the boys side, La Crescent/Hokah (315) proved its domination by topping the only team they lost to in head-to-head TRC play during the regular season, Rushford-Peterson (337). Cotter (340) took third and FC (341) fourth. Chatfield (365) finished in seventh and Caledonia (389) tenth with all 11 TRC schools bringing a full team. Lancers Landen Tulley (36/38 > 74) and Ryan Nutter (37/37 > 74) co-medaled. Chatfield’s Carson Harstad (38/41 > 79) took third including eagling a par-five. FC’s Brody Srsen (42/38 > 80) and R-P’s Will LaFleur (39/42 > 81) rounded out the top five. Caledonia’s J.T. Hammell (83) took ninth to make the top 10. Jaxson Meldahl (84) and Sam LaFleur (84) tied for 11th, and Kellen Drinkall (88) took 19th, to give R-P five in the top 20. FC’s Aiden Arnold (85) and Bennett Miller (87) took 14th and tied for 17th to also do so, as did Chatfield’s Carter Ask (88), who tied for 19th place. Sixty-three guys competed at the 18-hole tourney. FC’s boys were the defending champs, having topped LC/H last year. The Lancers topped FC for the 2023 title.
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