Burlington, IA- The Flint Hills Golf Course housed seven teams yesterday for the 18-hole Nike Co-Ed Invitational yesterday with the Central Lee boys’ team and the Highland girls’ team hoisting their respective titles by the end of the meet.
Girls Tournament
The Huskies touted the two best individual scores of the day with Emersyn Schultz shooting an 81 and Adusyn Prottsman carding an 84. Both golfers sported 3-over rounds on the back-nine. Highland finished with a team score of 389 as all five golfers touted scores within the top 21 spots.
Fort Madison finished in 2nd place with a team score of 412. Leading the Bloodhounds was the duo of Ava Taylor and Kylie Lumino as Taylor shot a 96 and Lumino a 97 with mirror-like scores between the front and back nines.
Van Buren County finished with the bronze with a team score of 428 followed by Mt. Pleasant with a team mark of 432. Sophia Jirak touted the sixth best score of the day with a 99 through the 18 holes.
The Panthers were the definition of consistent with Izzy Zihlman, Sophia Walderbach, and Vivian Cornell each shot a 110, but Ashlynn Beauchamp led the squad with a 102.
Emersyn Hopkins of Notre Dame/West Burlington tied for the third best score, individually with a 96, shooting a 44 on the first nine holes—one of just four players to shoot under 50. The Nikes tabbed a team score of 454.
Winfield-Mt. Union’s duo of Kelle Milks and Ashlyn Bender each finished with a round of 113, while Danville had Aubrey Nahorny card a 119 to lead the Bears with Marley Garland taking home a 130.
Boys Tournament
In a showdown between Central Lee and Winfield-Mt. Union, the two squads made up six of the seven best scores on the course, but it was the Hawks that touted Carter Jones, who shot par (71) for the course, that led the to victory for Central Lee with a team score of 303.
Helping the flock was Caleb Larson and Mylan Lowenberg each notching a round score of 77 (+6), while Bo Herdrich finished seven-over for the 18-hole course.
The Wolves had Justin Knipfer tab a 76, the second-best individual score of the day, with Konner Kinneberg taking home a 79. Cody Milks and Nick Sparrow’s 82 helped Winfield-Mt. Union take home the silver with a team score of 319.
Mt. Pleasant finished in 3rd place with a total score of 328. Brody Engle nabbed a 77 (+6) to tie for the third-best score of the meet. Alex Barton shot an 82 followed by Logan Calhoun and Merrick Lamm, taking home scores of 84 and 85, respectively.
Mason Watkins ended the day strong with a back-nine score of 39 to lead the Nikes with an 83 for the course. Sam Yonker (87) and Kaiden Dietzenbach (88) each carded a sub-90 round to outpace Van Buren County 348 to 355.
Leo Jirak led the Warriors as he finished in 8th place individually, notching an 81 (+10). Will Cocherell managed to finish sub-90 with an 89 for the 18 holes.
Danville had Alex Holtkamp and Mattix Furnald pace the squad with a round of 87 and 88, respectively, as the Bears finished with a team score of 424, while Highland’s best golfer was Issac Giesman with an 18-hole final of 118.