Golfers place second at sectional
By Greg Seubert
The season is still alive for the Hortonville girls’ golf team.
The Polar Bears will compete Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 12-13, at the WIAA State Girls’ Golf Tournament at the Meadow Valleys course at Blackwolf Run in Kohler.
Hortonville is making its first trip to state, which was moved from the Madison area to Blackwolf Run.
Hortonville will join Division 1 teams from Arrowhead, Brookfield Central, Cedarburg, Kettle Moraine, Notre Dame, Tomah and Waunakee and individual qualifiers from Brookfield East, Franklin, Hamilton, Kimberly, New Richmond, Onalaska, Slinger, Union Grove, Wausau East/West and Westosha Central.
The Polar Bears kept their season alive by placing second Oct. 6 at the Notre Dame Sectional at Thornberry Creek at Oneida.
Notre Dame placed four golfers in the top 10 and won the meet with a round of 350, while Hortonville also qualified for state with a 375. Other scores were Slinger (387), Wausau East/West (390), Kimberly (395), Wisconsin Rapids (396), Kaukauna (402) and Hartford Union (407).
Hortonville’s Kate Downie turned in a round of 85 to place third overall behind Notre Dame’s Grace Durkin (80) and Wausau East/West’s Jasmine Yang (83).
Other scores for the Polar Bears included Alix Kundinger (tied for ninth, 92); Emily Schmidt (tied for 17th, 98); and Reagan Sturn (tied for 22nd, 100).
• Waupaca’s Kya Hume qualified for a Division 2 sectional held Oct. 6 at Ives Grove Golf Links in Sturtevant. She placed 24th out of 48 golfers with a round of 104.
Hume was one of several North Eastern Conference golfers to compete at the meet. Callie Berg had the medalist round of 80 to help Freedom place second behind The Prairie School and qualify for state, while six other North Eastern teams – Wrightstown, Denmark, Marinette, Little Chute, Oconto Falls and Fox Valley Lutheran – placed third through eighth, respectively.
Another North Eastern golfer – Luxemburg-Casco’s Lydia VandenHouten – joined Hume as an individual qualifier.