Prep Golf Round-up: Conference title races stuck in certainties
In both Tri-County Area prep golf conferences, the Dairyland and Western Cloverbelt, the title races seem pretty much stuck on where they were at the start now just beyond the min-point.
In the WCC that means control by the Chippewa Falls McDonell/Eau Claire Regis co-op and in the Dairyland, it's control by Cochrane-Fountain City. Both teams have won all the league meets so far.
That included a rescheduled meet held at Osseo Golf Club hosted by Osseo-Fairchild this past Tuesday, May 3.
McDonell/Regis won the meet with a combined, nine-hole team score of 156 followed by Bloomer 171, Fall Creek 180, Osseo-Fairchild 187 and Cadott 190. The Saints' Andrew Bauer was the meet medalist with a score of 34.
Both FC and O-F had golfers place in the top 10. The Crickets' scores were Hayden Vining 43, Bryce Koenig 44, Jake Thompson 46 and Bryce Kuula 47. For the Thunder, Spencer Anderson shot a 43, Ian Vold a 45, Aiden Anderson 47, Cater Vold 52 and Hayden Smith 64.
Also at the Osseo Golf Club was a Dairyland Conference Meet hosted by Augusta back on Thursday, May 28.
C-FC was first with a nine-hole score of 171 followed by Eleva-Strum 196, Whitehall 219, Alma/Pepin 266 and Independence 297 with Augusta and Gilmanton incomplete.
Eleva-Strum has been either second or third in league meets so far this season. Riley Sterry and Dominic Ellis both shot 43s to finish second and third individually, Madi Gullicksrud shot a 54 and Dominic Marco shot a 56 for the Cardinals. C-FC's Reed Schmidtknect shot a 42 to win medalist honors. For Augusta, Ali Knuth shot a 72, Abby Boone a 75, and Matt Hoff shot an 88.
There were several big, multi-team 18-hole meets Tri-County Area Teams were involved in recently.
Back on April 27, Osseo-Fairchild competed at the Whitetail Invitational in Colfax. The Thunder placed eighth out of 11 schools entered with a score of 405. Anderson finished with a score of 96 followed by Cater Vold's 97, Aiden Anderson 99, Jaxson James 113, and Hayden Smith 138. Ellsworth won the meet with the low score of 340 with McDonell/Regis second at 345. Bauer was the meet medalist shooting an 80.
The Bloomer Invitational, the largest prep small-school meet in northwest Wisconsin, took place on April 30 at Veterans Memorial Golf Course. Fall Creek placed 16th and Osseo-Fairchild 18th out of 25 teams competing. Thompson had FC's best score with an 87 followed by Kuula 93, Koenig 95 and Vining 101. For the Thunder, Carter Vold shot a 92, Aiden Anderson had a 96, Spencer Anderson 99, James 109 and Smith 117. Maple Northwestern edged out McDonell/Regis for first place in the team standings 307-309 and the meet medalist was Bauer with a 71, edging out Northwestern's Trent Meyer in a playoff after also shot a 71. St. Croix Central's Nicholas Mueller shot a 72.
On Thursday, May 5, Fall Creek and Osseo-Fairchild were at the Northern Bay Invitational at Northern Bay Resort in Adams-Friendship. Fall Creek had an incomplete team and their individual scores were Hayden Vining 92, Jack Thomson 96 and Bryce Kuula 100. Osseo-Fairchild placed 10th out of the 16 teams competing withy a score of 402. Wautoma wont he meet with a score of 335. MIkey Antonelli of Black River Falls was the meet medalist as he shot a 75.
