Viking girls’ golf sees busy week to open season

By Cara L. Dempski

There is easing into a sports season to allow players to adjust to the work load, and then there is what happened for the Colfax girls’ golf team last week.

The Lady Vikings started out the week at Pine Crest Golf Course in Dallas, where they took on Cumberland, Barron, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser and Flambeau and wound up with third place honors. Colfax scored a total of 274 in the August 14 match.

The team then traveled to Somerset’s Bristol Ridge Golf Course August 15 for a round against mostly Middle Border foes. The team scored 298 overall, with sophomore Abby DeMoe again leading the team with 48 strokes.

The Vikings capped the week with an August 17 trip north to Hayward’s Big Fish Golf Club. No results from this meet were available prior to publication.

Colfax headed to Amery August 22, and is scheduled to travel to Osceola August 24. They will then take a few days off before road-tripping to Baldwin-Woodville August 29.

Barron

The Vikings were one of only three schools to have a full team for scoring at Barron’s secondary home course at Pine Crest in Dallas last week. They scored 274, leaving them with third place.

Despite taking the highest number of strokes as a team, Colfax sophomore Abby DeMoe picked up where she left off in her freshman season by earning the lowest individual score of the day in one of her first matches as a sophomore.

DeMoe led the field of female golfers with a total of 44 strokes over nine holes. She was joined by Abby Klueckmann, who shot 66, McKenna Yingst with a score of 79, and Abbi Farley, who scored 85.

Cumberland took the top team spot with 225 strokes, and Barron was close behind in second with 238 strokes.

Somerset

Just four Colfax golfers are listed on the scorecard for last Tuesday’s results over nine at the Bristol Ridge Golf Course.

Abby DeMoe again led the team with just 48 strokes to put her in a three-way tie with Ellsworth’s Holly Carlson and Balwin-Woodville’s Hope Tiffany. The Viking sophomore shot for par on the four-stroke 13th and three-par 17th, but struggled with both par-five holes (12 and 18), scoring eight on each.

Abby Klueckmann and Amanda Christianson joined DeMoe on the course, scoring 79 and 71 respectively. The junior, Klueckmann, appears to have suffered the greatest difficulty with the par-five 12th, where she took 17 shots. Her best hole was the bogey she scored on the three-par 11th.

Christianson also had trouble with 12, but had the hardest time with the 14th, shooting for 14 on the hole. Her best hole was the three-par 17th, where she double-bogeyed.

Abbi Farley is listed as one of the players, but is scored at a 100-stroke handicap.

New Richmond took top team honors with just 202 strokes, while Colfax rounded out the day on the bottom with 298 strokes.