Colfax-Elk Mound golfers have busy week
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SENIOR Zane Brice chipped this shot onto the green at a Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet at Whitetail May 9. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
The final week of the regular season proved to be a busy one for the Colfax-Elk Mound boys’ golf team.
The squad opened last week’s play at Cadott’s Whispering Pines Golf Course on Monday, May 6 where it participated in the 18-hole Stanley-Boyd Invitational. Colfax-Elk Mound finished sixth in the 13-team tournament. Three days later, the local linksmen closed out their regular-season slate by hosting a pair of Dunn-St. Croix meets at Whitetail where they finished in a tie for second in the first meet and came in third in the second meet of the day.
Colfax-Elk Mound opened tournament play this past Monday, May 13 at the Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet which was held at Glen Hills Golf Course near Glenwood City. The team will then have a week to practice and prepare for the WIAA Division 2 regional meet which will be held at Trempealeau Mountain on Tuesday, May 21. The first four teams and top four individuals, who are not members of a qualifying team, at the regional competition will advance to the sectional tournament at Turtleback in Rice Lake on Tuesday, May 28.
Stanley-Boyd Invitational
Colfax-Elk Mound had two golfers crack the top 20 on the individual leader board to help the team finish sixth out of 13 schools at the Stanley-Boyd Invitational held Monday, May 6 at Whispering Pines Golf Course near Cadott.
Sophomore Orion Nichols led the locals with an 18-hole score of 85 good for a three-way tie for 16th place. Senior Zane Brice finished just one stroke back with an 86 which also put him in a three-way tie for 19th place.
Rounding out the Colfax-Elk Mound varsity were junior Beau Borgwardt with 92 and senior Christian Ebert and sophomore Lucas Ebert with a score of 94 each.
Colfax finished with 357 strokes. Bloomer, who had five of the top six individual golfers, won the tournament with a low score of 310. Reigning Dunn-St. Croix Conference champion and current season leader Durand-Arkansaw took second with a 333 followed by Marathon at 336, Cadott with a 345 and Holmen rounded out the top five after shooting a 347.
COLFAX-ELK MOUND golfer Orion Nichols watchrd his putt head toward the cup on hole 9 during a Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet at Whitetail Golf Course Thursday afternoon, May 9.
—photo by Shawn DeWitt
Whitetail Meet #1
After inclement weather had postponed an earlier conference meet at Whitetail, Colfax-Elk Mound hosted the other four Dunn-St. Croix schools in a pair of nine-hole conference meets last Thursday, May 9 to wrap up the league’s regular season.
In the morning session, which was meet number one at Whitetail but conference meet number seven overall, Colfax-Elk Mound finished in a tie for second place with Glenwood City as both squads finished with 177 strokes.
Three local golfers finished in the top ten. The team’s number one golfer, senior Zane Brice, scored a 40 on the back nine to finish in a tie with Glenwood City’s Esdyn Swenby for third place. Sophomore Orion Nichols and senior Christian Ebert both shot a 45 to finish in a four-way tie for ninth place. Sophomore Lucas Svee carded a 47 to take14th and junior Beau Borgwardt signed off on a 48 and a 17th-place showing.
Durand-Arkansaw, led by medalists Logan Weissinger and Dane Schauls who both shot 35s, topped the team scores with a 155. Mondovi took fourth with a 193 and Spring Valley was fifth with a 204.
Whitetail Meet #2
After a brief lunch break, competitors hit the front nine at Whitetail last Thursday afternoon for the eighth and final nine-hole Dunn-St. Croix meet for 2024.
Although Colfax-Elk Mound shaved four strokes off their team tally in the second meet, the squad finished in third place with a 173. Glenwood City improved by 12 strokes as it carded a 165 to finish in second place while Durand-Arkansaw cut seven strokes from its second-meet total for a 148 to once again finish in first place. Spring Valley jumped to fourth with a 194 and Mondovi slipped back to fifth with a 197.
All five of the Colfax-Elk Mound golfers finished the afternoon competition within four strokes of one another. Beau Borgwardt shot a team low sore of 42 to finish seventh, one stroke back and in tenth place was Orion Nichols, followed Christian Ebert and Zane Brice in 11th after with a pair of 44s, and Lucas Svee scored a 46 to place 15th.
The Panthers’ Logan Weissinger shot another 35 to win the meet.