Golf (6/9)

1A Girls Golf: Falcon Girls Continue Dynasty With 11th Straight Title

For a day, the dynasty was threatened. Lanesboro girls golf made Aaron Mensink’s Falcons sweat for a few hours at the 1A Meet, but the reigning state runners-up overcame the Burros to claim their 11th straight section title. Lanesboro ended Day 1 leading Fillmore Central 359 to 363. The Burros rode 8th grader Addison McCabe’s 79 (42/37) plus Jentrey Schreiber’s 85 (45/40) to their lead. McCabe sat in second place behind Hayfield’s Carly Bronson (77), ahead of FC’s Myleigh Scheevel (82), with Schreiber in fourth. But gravity of 1A girls’ golf has been FC over the past decade-plus. The Falcons out-shot the Burros by 18 strokes on Day 2 to claim the crown, 724 to 738. Only third place W-K (788) also shot sub-800. R-P (887), Southland (898), and Houston (905) rounded out the complete teams. Viking Bronson (42/35/41/38 > 156) won the individual title shooting 8-over-par. Scheevel (44/38/42/40 > 164) took second and A-McCabe (42/37/47/41 > 167) third. FC’s Annika Mensink played solid through both days (46/43/44/44 > 177) to take fourth. Teammate Lily Miller (49/44/51/45 > 189) tied for sixth. Burros Schreiber (45/40/54/46 > 185) and Ellie McCabe (54/45/48/42 > 189) took fifth and tied for sixth. All three Lanesboro girls qualified for state individually. The McCabe sisters repeated. Also repeating was GMLO’s Gabby Tangren (49/47/54/45 > 195), who finished tied for 8th with W-K’s Gracelyn Leichtnam (189) to earn the final individual spots.  Ella Diersen (10th place-tie> 196) and Grace Tufte (13th place-tie > 197) were FC’s and Lanesboro’s fourth highest golfers. Forty-five total girls competed with 39 making Day 2 of the 36-hole event held at Rochester’s 18-hole par-71 Eastwood Golf Course. The last time the Falcons did not win the Section 1A crown was 2013. 

1A Boys Golf: Trojans Usurp Falcons, Brogle Claims Individual Title

On the boys side of the 1A golf tourney, for the second time in four years, Rushford-Peterson is off to state. Luke Rye’s group narrowly led TRC-East rival Fillmore Central, the two-time defending 1A champ, 335 to 337 after Day 1’s first 18 holes. Lanesboro (344) sat in third. Burro sophomore Jack Brogle (75) led W-K’s Tommy Lineweaver (77) by two strokes atop the leaderboard. R-P then out-shot FC by 11 strokes Day 2 to claim the crown 669 to 682. Lanesboro (697) took third followed by BP (703), Houston (739), and L-A (757) of the squads that made Day 2. Individually, Brogle shot a 15-over 157 (40/35/40/42) to top FC’s Brody Srsen (39/40/38/42 > 159), who took second with 17-over. The top six was all non-seniors. R-P frosh Sam LaFleur (41/43/38/39 > 161) had a good Day 2 to take third. He made state individually last year. Junior teammate Jaxson Meldahl (41/41/44/40 > 166) took fourth. W-K frosh Lineweaver (40/37/46/44 > 167) fell off on Day 2 to take fifth while Trojan junior Jace Dvorak (43/42/43/42 > 170) took sixth. FC’s Aiden Arnold (40/43/42/46 > 171), the field’s top senior, took seventh and R-P’s Will LaFleur (42/42/42/46 > 172) took eighth. BP’s Drew Reinke (173) and Coen Abel (173) tied for 9th place to round out the top 10. They joined Brogle, Srsen, Lineweaver, and Arnold in making state individually. Brogle and the FC duo have each qualified for state thrice now, the Falcon guys going with the team the past two years. GMLO’s Lincoln Lunning (174) missed the state cut by one stroke. Bennett Miller was FC’s fourth highest golfer and he tied for 13th place with Kingsland’s top guy Collin Stuart (176s). R-P’s fifth highest golfer Kellen Drinkall tied with GMLO’s Graham Eastlee (177s) for 15th place. Falcon Josh Haugerud (178) tied for 17th place while Houston’s top two golfers, Morgan Rohweder and Logan Olson tied for 20th with Lanesboro’s Dayton Haugen (179s). One of FC’s key golfer, Brock Sikkink (182), was disqualified. Forty-three guys made Day 2 with 66 total competing at the 18-hole, par-71 Eastwood Golf Course. 

1AA Golf: Warrior Hayden Harms Earns State Berth

Several kids from Caledonia and Chatfield were hoping to make state at the Section 1AA golf tourney. A Warrior sophomore battled to do so. Hayden Harms shot a 27-over-par 171 (42/42/45/42) to take seventh place overall.  She earned the fifth of five individual state berths, edging out Lourdes’ Paige Moeschler and Winona’s Avery Foss, who each shot 173s  Red Wing’s Hallie Johnson shot four-over par 148 to easily win the event over PI/ZM’s Neva Anderson (162). Lake City’s Mattie Mears (166), PI/ZM’s Olivia Cordes (167), and Lourdes’ Allison Deutchs (168) rounded out the top five. Warrior Jazzlyn Hauser (184) took 18th place. Chatfield’s Brynn Tweten (185) tied for 19th. Forty-three girls made Day 2 and 80 total competed. Team-wise, Lake City (699) topped Red Wing (700) by one stroke, PIZM (705) by six, and Rochester-Lourdes (710) by 11. On the guys side, Albert Lea (606) won the team title over PIZM (624) and Lourdes (630). Tiger Archie Nelson shot a four-under 140 to top La Crescent/Hokah’s Ryan Nutter, who shot a two-under 142. Stewartville’s Austin Walker (148), Albert Lea’s Noah Teeter (148), and Lourdes’ Colton Rich (149) rounded out the top five. Caledonia’s highest finisher was J.T. Hammell (163), who tied for 25th place. Chatfield’s Carson Harstad, who just missed state last year (157), took 30th place with a 166. Forty-six guys made Day 2 of the event with 114 total competing. Neither Chatfield or Caledonia’s teams made Day 2. The two-day, 36-hole events were held at the 18-hole, par-72 Northern Hills Golf Course in Rochester.