Dodge City, KS — Liberal High School Lady Redskins Golf Team traveled to Dodge City for their second tournament of the 2026 season. For the first time in at least eight seasons, LHS finished in third among the WAC schools, finishing ahead of Dodge City and Great Bend. A total of ten teams competed in this year’s Dodge City High School Invitational at the Par 73 Mariah Hills Golf Course. The Lady Redskins finished 4th as a team and nearly every Lady Redskin golfer recorded career best scores.
The tournament had its own excitement, as Garden City’s Brooke Savolt and Wichita Southeast’s Alina Lam (last year’s medalist for this event) battled back-and-forth all day long. Savolt took the early lead, only to have Lam overtake her and gain the lead. Eventually, the two finished the round tied at two under par. Brooke Savolt won the playoff with a birdie on the first play-off hole to claim the title.
Senior Rylie Friess led the way for LHS with a career best 105 to finish 19th.
Right behind Friess, with a score of 106, was Junior Scarlett Carr. Tying her career best score, Scarlett finished in a tie for 21st. Last season, Carr scored a score of 107 on this same course at the KSHSAA 6A Sub-State Tournament to qualify individually for State.
Freshman Ella Carr, playing in her first 18-hole tournament, recorded her career-best score of 111 to finish 29th.
Junior Valeria Gandara Vega improved her career best score by four strokes, finishing with a 114 to finish 31st.
Sophomore Aniya Stegman improved on her previous career best score by eight strokes to finish with a 127 and a 39th position. And Sophomore Jyzelle Juarez, playing in her first-ever tournament finished with a 144 – essentially her career best!
“I’m really proud of the girls,” fifth year head coach Bert Luallen stated. “Both individually and as a team, they made a statement. To finish in 4th place in the tournament and 3rd among the WAC schools is a huge step forward in the continuing development of our program. And the most exciting thing to me is that every one of the girls felt they could have done better and want to do better.”
TEAM TOTALS (Wichita Collegiate, Wichita East, Wichita North and Wichita Southeast did not have a full team to record a team score.)
1 GARDEN CITY 320
2 THOMAS MOORE PREP 382
3 HAYS 387
4 LIBERAL 436
5 DODGE CITY 450
6 GREAT BEND 467
INDIVIDUAL SCORES (Top Ten and LHS Scores
1 Brooke Savolt Garden City 71
2 Alina Lam WSE 71
3 Brynn Schoepf TMP 75
4 Ailynn Anderson Garden City 77
5 Megan Burr Garden City 81
6 Kinley Pfannenstiel Hays 86
7 Breckyn Lucas Garden City 91
8 Grace Lam WSE 94
T9 Whitney Teal WCS 97
T9 Giana Schumacher Hays 97
19 Rylie Friess Liberal 105
T21 Scarlett Carr Liberal 106
29 Ella Carr Liberal 111
31 Valeria Gandara Vega Liberal 114
39 Aniya Stegman Liberal 127
49 Jyzelle Juarez Liberal 144
LHS returns to action on Monday, September 14th, at the Pratt Invitational at Park Hills Country Club with a 1 pm starting Tee Time; then they will host the Liberal Invitational on Thursday, the 17th at 10 am.
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