Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Kimball High girls golf team members pose after winning the Western Trails Conference and Kimball Invitational Tournament on their home Four Winds Golf Course this past week. From left are Katie Heeg, Carli Wurdeman, Payton Wise and Maddie Cook. All four girls finished in the top 10 medal group of both divisions.
An outstanding week for the Kimball High girl's golf team as they picked up 3 team wins led by sophomore Payton Wise with 3 individual top finishes!
The Lady Longhorns started off with a pair of victories on their home course as they hosted their Kimball Invitational anD combined it with the Western Trails Conference Tournament. their team score of 421 was good enough to take top team honors in both divisions with Mitchell runner-up in both with 422 and Gordon-Rushville 3rd with 536.
Bridgeport finished 4th in the WTC with 739, and Perkins County was 4th in the Invite with 604.
Kimball's Payton Wise was medalist in both divisions with her round of 47-40=87 and once again she came back strong on the back nine after getting off to a slow start.
Brooklyn Briggs of Mitchell was individual runner-up in both divisions with a round of 45-48=93. Mitchell also took 3rd and 4th honors with Jaque Bowles shooting 104 and Martina Cardona 108.
Kimball had all four of their varsity golfers in the top 10 medal group with Katie Heeg and Carli Wurdeman both shooting rounds of 110 to take the 5th and 6th spots. Wurdeman shot 54-56=110 and Heeg 59-51=110. Maddie Cook finished 7th shooting 57-57=114.
Shelby Hurlburt of Gordon-Rushville was 8th in WTC with 115, while Mitchell's Lexi Schledititz was 9th with 117 and Marissa Cardona 10th with 127.
In the Invite division, Jaecee Drapel of Sidney JV took 7th with her round of 113. Coach Katie Culek also played her three freshman for 9 holes in the JV division with Halsey Clark shooting 78, Keara O'Brien 80, and Hannah Schildhauer 81.
Creek Valley
Tournament
The Kimball girls took top honors two days later at the Creek Valley Tournament in Chappell shooting their best score of the young season of 392. Perkins County was a distant runner-up with 559 and Garden County was 3rd with 583.
Another top finish for Payton Wise as she had a solid round of 43-40=83, just 2 strokes over the school record she shot a week earlier. Maddie Cook shot a career best round of 50-49=99 to take 2nd place honors and Carlie Wurdeman shot 52-48=100 for 3rd. Katie Heeg had a round of 56-54=110 to take 5th place and give Kimball all four of their golfers a finish in the top five!
Coach Culek commented on the outstanding week of play.
"Each week we are setting small goals and each week we have been achieving those goals," she said. "This last tournament we shot our low team score of the season and 3 of our girls shot their lowest individual scores. Maddie Cook shot her best round ever. Katie Heeg, in her first year with the sport, is really improving and keeps dropping her scores. We need to keep working hard at practice and keep getting our scores even lower.
The Kimball girls will play at Mitchell today (Thursday) and then go to Gering on Sept. 17. They are at Ogallala September 24 and Bridgeport September 26.
