By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Wamego and Hayden's girls golf teams have gone back and forth over the last several seasons, combining to capture the past four Class 4A state team championships.
And while Wamego got the upper hand with a dominating win over two-time defending Hayden in Tuesday's regional tournament at Shawnee Country Club, the Wildcats earned another shot at the Red Raiders in next week's state tournament at Hutchinson with a runnerup regional finish.
Hayden senior Izzy Glotzbach tied for second with an 83 in Tuesday's Class 4A regional at Shawnee Country Club. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Led by three-time defending 4A individual champion Addison Douglass and putting all six players in the top nine, Wamego posted a four-person score of 326 while Hayden was a distant second at 366.
"They're really good, so we're going to have to play our best to compete with them, but the No. 1 thing for us was to make it out of here and get a chance to go do it (at state) and we did that,'' Hayden coach Jayson Duncan said.
"We played pretty good early and maybe need to clean up some things late.''
Douglas shot a sizzling four-under-par 69 to post a 14-stroke individual victory while the Red Raiders' Lillian Costa tied for second place with an 83, Sophia Hellman, Gentry McIntosh and Hailey Honeycutt tied for fifth with 87s and Maizie Nickel placed ninth with an 95.
Hayden's Brooke Johnson shot an 84 to place fourth and help the Wildcats finish second as a team in Tuesday's Class 4A regional at Shawnee Country Club. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Hayden senior Lauren Borjon finished eighth individually with an 89 in Tuesday's Class 4A regional at Shawnee Country Club. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Senior Izzy Glotzbach led Hayden with a tie for second place with an 83 while the Wildcats' Brooke Johnson finished fourth with an 84, Lauren Borjon placed eighth with an 89 and Kellyn Specht rounded out Hayden's top four with a tie for 20th with a 110.
Rock Creek earned the third team berth for state with a third-place finish at 414.
The state tournament will be contested next Monday and Tuesday at Hutchinson's Carey Park.
"We've got a week to think about it and a week to think about what we want to do to fix some things and we're going to try to do that before we go to Hutch,'' Duncan said.
CLASS 4A REGIONAL TOURNAMENT
At Shawnee Country Club
Team scores
Wamego 326, Hayden 366, Rock Creek 414, Holton 416, Rose Hill 423.
1. Addison Douglass, Wamego, 69; 2. (tie) Izzy Glotzbach, Hayden, and Lillian Costa, Wamego, 83; 4. Brooke Johnson, Hayden, 84; 5. (tie) Sophia Hellman, Wamego; Gentry McIntosh, Wamego, and Hailey Honeycutt, Wamego, 87; 8. Lauren Borjon, Hayden, 89; 9. Maizie Nickel, Wamego, 95; 10. (tie) Elisa Bartel, Holton, and Reagan French, Rock Creek, 96.
Other Hayden -- 20. (tie) Kellyn Specht, 110; 22. Morgan Johnson, 111; 28. Avery Becker, 117.
Individual state qualifiers -- Georgia Lightfoot, Piper; Berlyn Kolean, Topeka West; Hadley Heim, Piper; Lauryn Valdivia, Shawnee Heights; Kelsey Shull, Emporia.
