By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Hayden's girls golf team put itself in position to win a second straight Class 4A state championship in Monday's opening round and left no doubt on Tuesday, pulling away for a 15-stroke victory at Hesston Golf Course.
Hayden took a four-stroke lead over Wellington on Monday and finished the 36-hole event with a four-person score of 698 while Wellington was a distant second at 713 and McPherson finished third at 727.
Hayden's girls golf team poses with its championship trophy after winning the Class 4A state tournament by 15 strokes Tuesday at Hesston. [Submitted photo]
Junior Lauren Borjon led the Wildcats with a third-place individual finish with a 36-hole total of 157, following up her first-round 76 with an 81 on Tuesday.
Hayden junior Izzy Glotzbach and senior Addyson Baer also earned 4A state medals, with Glotzbach finishing 12th at 171 (89-82) and Baer tying for 16th at 174 (86-88).
Brooke Johnson placed 34th at 196 (102-94), Nora Allphin was 46th at 213 (107-106) and Kellyn Specht finished 52nd at 226 (112-114).
Wamego's Addison Douglass took the individual state championship with a 36-hole total of 142 (70-72).
Silver Lake girls golf poses for a team picture after finishing second in the Class 3A-1A state tournament on a tiebreaker Tuesday at Emporia. [Silver Lake Athletics]
Silver Lake suffers heartbreaking tiebreaker loss in 3A-1A
Silver Lake, which started Tuesday's final round in third place, rallied to give itself a chance at a second straight Class 3A-1A state championship before finishing second to Pittsburg Colgan on a tiebreaker.
Both the Eagles and Panthers finished with four-person scores of 718, but Colgan won its third state title in four seasons by virtue of a lower fifth score on the second day of the tournament. Goodland finished third at 734.
Senior Taylor Zordel led Silver Lake with a fourth-place individual finish at 164 (86-78), earning her fourth straight state medal, while Kailyn Hanni posted a 13th-place finish at 180 (90-90) and Makenna Miller also earned a state medal with a 14th-place finish at 181 (95-86).
Savannah Wende finished 36th for the Eagles at 193 (101-92), Hope Thornton was 45th at 202 (102-100) and Alyssa Streit placed 54th at 221 (113-108).
Rossville's Elley Sanders, competing as an individual, tied for 38th with a 36-hole total of 197 (94-103).
Washburn Rural girls golf poses for a team picture after its third-place finish in the Class 6A state tournament Tuesday at Hutchinson. [Washburn Rural golf]
Seniors Randall, Peterson lead Rural to third-place 6A finish
Seniors Reece Randall and Natalie Peterson ended their high school careers with Class 6A state medals, leading Washburn Rural to a third-place team finish at Hutchinson's Carey Park.
Randall finished with a 36-hole total of 154 (79-75) to tie for 10th place individually while Peterson tied for 12th at 157 (81-76).
Junior Lauren Cox narrowly missed an individual medal, finishing in a tie for 22nd at 165 (82-83), while Colbey Stead finished 42nd at 181 (86-95), Kailyn Petersen 46th at 185 (92-93) and Ella Taggart 53rd at 209 (109-100).
Washburn Rural posted a four-person score of 655 to finish third behind Centennial League rival Manhattan (593) and Shawnee Mission East (622).
The Junior Blues finished 16 strokes in front of fourth-place Maize (671).
Maize's Kinslea Jones won the individual title with a 36-hole 139 total (70-69), three strokes in front of Manhattan's Kat Ball while Manhattan's Maddie Myers finished third.
Zimmerman earns 5A medal, Vikings finish sixth
Seaman senior Jaycee Zimmerman earned a Class 5A state medal with an 18th-place individual finish Tuesday at Salina Municipal, leading the Vikings to a sixth-place team finish.
Zimmerman finished the 36-hole event at 173, shooting an 87 on Tuesday after a first-round 86.
The Vikings posted a four-player score of 706.
Kaitlynn Frye finished 23rd at 176 (85-91), while Makenna Stuke was 25th at 178 (94-84), Anna McLaughlin tied for 35th at 184 (91-93), Chloe Schmidtlein finished 37th at 185 (97-88) and Molina Quintana was 53rd at 222 (105-117).
Kapaun Mt. Carmel won the team championship by a 639-647 margin over St. James Academy while St. Thomas Aquinas finished third at 693.
Kapaun's Ximena Sariana won the individual title at 142 (73-69).
Shawnee Heights' Lyla Blair finished 43rd at 188 (87-101) while Topeka West's Alex Baxter tied for 46th at 198 (94-104).
