The FC Girls Golf Dynasty Continues

It was their closest section title win.  But winning is winning and Aaron Mensink’s Fillmore Central girls golf team are again 1A champions (their fifth straight title).  Grace Miller and Madison Scheevel now have one for the thumb (albeit, they don’t get rings, just medals).   The Falcons led Caledonia by just four strokes (357 to 361) after Day One (May 29).  Day Two (June 3), FC stayed top dog, expanding its edge to earn another trip to Becker and the state golf meet.  The Falcons topped Caledonia by a score of 700 (157, 160, 191, 192) to 713 (165, 176, 181, 191).  It’s the third straight year FC topped the Warriors.  Scores in 2017 (709 to 776) and 2016 (688 to 715) weren’t as close.  In 2019, someone other than Grace Miller will have to be Section Meet medalist.  The Falcon senior continued her dominance at the 1A Meet, earning her third straight medalist honor.  After going 35/42 Day One, Miller went 43/37 Day Two to post a two-day 157.  She was just one stroke short of her 2016 Section Meet effort (156).  The odds on favorite to supplant Miller next year is teammate Madison Scheevel.  The junior, for fourth straight year, finished top three.   Scheevel went 38/43 and 38/41 to post a two-day 160.  She repeated as Section 1A runner-up.  The 160 was Scheevel’s best 1A Meet score in her five years.  The duo was 24 combined strokes better than Caledonia’s top two golfers Katrina Paulson (3rd 165) and Rebeckah Schroeder (4th 176).  The meet had five under-40 scores.  Miller and Scheevel had two each.  And while FC’s top girls golf twosome (ever) brought their A-game, FC’s third best golfer brought immense improvement.   Last year at sections, sophomore Taylor Bushman shot a two-day 243 (23rd place).  She was the Falcons sixth golfer.  In a 52-stroke betterment, Bushman notched a consistent 191 this year (48, 48, 47, 48) to tie for sixth overall.  FC’s fourth scoring golfer was a less consistent Cailey Rindels, who posted a 192 (49, 54, 40, 49) to take eighth overall.  The senior notched a 14-stroke improvement from Day One (103) to Day Two (89), a 10-stroke overall improvement from last year (202).  And her 40 was the sixth best 9-hole round of the tourney.  Freshman Keanna Weedman (205, 11th) and sophomore Hailey Lange (209, 13th) were FC’s other golfers.  The meet was held at Willow Creek’s 18-hole par-70 golf course.  The Falcons’ 700 was the second best Section meet score in the state, behind Lac Que Parle Valley (676), just ahead of BOLD (704).  BOLD (693) beat FC (697) for last year’s state title.