Elk Mound golf takes ninth out of ten at Nekoosa D2 regional

By Cara L. Dempski

NEKOOSA — It may not have been the finish Elk Mound golf coach Brandon Powell was hoping for, but the Mounders still gave their all at the 2017 Division 2 Regional meet in Nekoosa.

The Elk Mound squad of Jameson Rubenzer, Maxwell Marquardt, Colton Ward, Nathaniel Schreiber and Dillon McLaughlin earned a team total of 419 strokes over the 18-hole Lake Arrowhead Golf Club Tuesday, May 23 to end their play for 2017.

Rubenzer, a senior, earned the Mounders’ highest individual finish when he tied with Myles Fish of the McDonell Central/Eau Claire Regis team at 94 strokes to take 22nd-place. The Elk Mound player finished the front nine in 46 shots, and the back in 48.

Sophomores Marquardt and Ward finished 18 holes with scores of 106 and 107 respectively. Marquardt was stronger on the front nine, where he shot 52, but Ward was stronger on the back, where he also shot 52.

Schreiber finished his junior season with 112 strokes after hitting for 54 on the front nine and 58 on the back. McLaughlin rounded out the team with a score of 116. He shot a 62 on the front nine, but then seemed to settle in on the back nine, where he shot a 54.

The top four teams at the Nekoosa regional were Arcadia (345), West Salem (350), Nekoosa (366) and McDonell/Regis (370). They all moved on to sectional competition at Barron May 30 along with individual qualifiers Grant Curtis of Altoona, Ty Breese and Jake Zukowski of Black River Falls, and Paul Miller of Neillsville/Loyal.