Colfax, EM golfers swing into season

COLFAX — The wintry weather finally broke last week allowing the Colfax and Elk Mound boys’ golf teams to finally take to the links for a pair of home meets.

The squads not only opened their regular seasons but the Dunn-St. Croix conference schedule with a 6-team meet at Whitetail Golf Course last Monday, April 23. The Mounders finished fifth in the final standings with Colfax taking sixth.

The teams returned to Whitetail two days later to host an 18-hole invitational that featured 17 schools from the Lakeland, Middle Border, Cloverbelt and Dunn-St. Croix conferences. Elk Mound placed tenth and Colfax was 15th.

The schedules are booked for this coming week. Both schools traveled Monday to Mondovi and Glenwood City’s Glen Hills Golf Course on Tuesday. The Mounders and Vikings will then head to Spring Valley Thursday before trekking south to Durand’s Rolling Green Golf Course next Monday, May 7.

D-SC Meet

Dunn-St. Croix boys’ golf teams swung into the 2018 conference season with a meet at Whitetail Golf Course April 23.

Spring Valley edged Durand by a single stroke – 180 to 181 – to take first place in the 9-hole meet. Mondovi was a distant third at 198 followed by Glenwood City (214). Elk Mound and Colfax finished with 226 and 256 strokes respectively.

Durand’s Julia Hayden shot a 41 to take medalist honors while Tyler Leach of Spring Valley finished second with 43 strokes.

Dillon McLaughlin had the low score for Elk Mound. The junior carded a 53 including a par on hole six to place 16th. Three other Elk Mound juniors followed with Colten Ward shooting a 56, Maxwell Marquardt scoring a 58 and Marcus Kinblom fired a 61. The fifth varsity member, sophomore Ethan Rubenzer finished with a 59. In all, the Mounders tallied 226 strokes in the final standings.

Colfax was led by senior Richard Stehling who shot a 52 over nine holes and finished 14th. Unfortunately, scores for the other Vikings jumped into the 60s and beyond. Spencer Herrick signed out with a 62 and sophomore Boden Bergeson shot a 69. Hunter Rebak tallied a 73 and Jon Welk rounded out the varsity scores with an 85. Adding up the four lowest scores, Colfax finished with a score of 256.

TEAM
SCORES: 1. Spring Valley 180, 2. Durand 181, 3. Mondovi 198, 4. Glenwood City 214, 5. Elk Mound 226, 6. Colfax 256

Whitetail Invitational

With beautiful, warm weather and sunshine gracing the fairways and greens, it proved to be a great day for the annual Whitetail Golf Invitational.

17 schools from four area conference took part in the 2018 event with the home squads from Elk Mound and Colfax finishing 10th and 15th respectively in the final team standings.

Max Marquardt, a junior from Elk Mound, was the lone area golfer to shot below the century mark, turning in a 92 for the 18-hole tournament. Another pair of Elk Mound juniors, Kaitlin Schiferl and Colton Ward finished with 102 strokes. Dillon McLaughlin had a score of 104 for the Mounders and Marcus Kinblom closed out the varsity scores with a 120. Elk Mound finished with an overall tally of 400.

Hunter Rebak carded 105 strokes over the 18 holes to led the Colfax Golf team. Seniors Spencer Herrick shot a 110 and Richard Stehling tallied a 115. Finishing out the scoring for the Vikings varsity team were Boden Bergeson with a 142 and Jon Welk at 147. Colfax tallied 472 strokes.

A pair of Durand topped the individual leaderboard. TJ Tulip shot a 73 to win medalist honors while teammate Dawson Kurth tied for second with Webster’s Brett Johnson with 79s. 

Durand won the tournament with 328 strokes, four less than runner-up Flambeau.

TEAM SCORES: 1. Durand 328, 2. Flambeau 332, 3. Amery 346, 4. Thorp 349, 5. Baldwin-Woodville 354, 6. Ellsworth 357, 7. Osceola 371, 8. Unity 381, 9. Turtle Lake 382, 10. Elk Mound 400, 11. Prescott 405, 12. Clear Lake 415, 13. Somerset 417, 14. St. Croix Falls 428, 15. Colfax 472.