Bert Luallen
PRATT, KS — Liberal High School Lady Redskin Golf Team traveled to Pratt on Monday for a 9-hole tournament at Park Hills Country Club. The course was certainly an issue, along with the continued heat and winds over twenty miles per hour. Park Hills CC provided a challenge that impacted the Lady Redskins – a lot of hills. “We’re simply at a disadvantage when we play courses like this,” Coach Bert Luallen stated. “I’m not trying to make excuses for the girls, but we just don’t have opportunities in our area to play shots with uphill, downhill, and sidehill lies.”
In spite of the adverse conditions, the Lady Red finished 4th as a team for the third straight tournament – just 8 strokes behind third place Kingman. “We discussed this as a team when we returned,” said Luallen. “We tend to dwell too much on bad shots or bad holes, letting them affect the next two or three holes. You have to have a short memory and forget those things. As Ben Hogan said, “The most important shot in golf is the next one.””
Senior Rylie Friess led the way for LHS for the second straight tournament with a 50 for 4th place individually in a field of 57 golfers. She started out a little rough, as she found herself tied for 14th half way through the round. But she buckled down and played steady, making par on the final two holes. On hole #2 (her eighth hole), a par 3, she put a seven wood tee shot at fifteen feet above the hole and two putted for par. On hole #3, her last hole, she placed her drive in the middle of the fairway and put a seven-iron just off the green, pin-high to the right, just three feet off the putting surface. From there, she two-putted for par.
TEAM RESULTS
1 Larned 202
2 Pratt 219
3 Kingman 228
4 Liberal 236
5 Pretty Prairie 240
6 Nickerson 248
7 Medicine Lodge 260
8 Pratt JV 274
9 Andale 288
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS (TOP 10 & LHS Scores)
1 Ariana Meyer Larned 47
2 Taeten Reynolds Larned 48
3 Ava Simmons Pratt 49
4 Rylie Friess Liberal 50
5 Teagan Dick Kingman 52
6 Khloe Smith Larned 53
T7 Jewelynn Reese Pretty Prairie 54
T7 Cammie DePeugh Larned 54
9 Kennedie Haskett Pratt 55
10 Haidyn Hartley Kingman 56
T15 Scarlett Carr Liberal 58
T24 Ella Carr Liberal 63
T30 Valeria Gandara Vega Liberal 65
T37 Aniya Stegman Liberal 68
40 Jyzelle Juarez Liberal 70
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