The National Trail Boys Golf Team won the OHSAA DIII Sectional at Turtle Creek last week followed that up with a second-place finish in the district tournament at Pipestone Golf Club and is headed to the state finals for the second year in a row.
National Trail’s Senior Kellen Laird was runner-up medalist firing a round of 75. Josh Brubaker tied for fourth place with a 79, Christian Rutan had an 85, Wyatt Gebhart 87 and Sawyer Davies 89 for a team total of 326, seven strokes behind first place Botkins.
Only two teams qualify to go onto state, and the two lowest individual scorers not on a team that advanced qualify as well. There were no other WOAC teams or individuals in the DIII district event to move on.
Other WOAC teams who advanced from Turtle Creek sectional to the district was Newton and Twin Valley South.
Newton was led by Will Bowser 81 and Rhett Koffer 85 and Twin Valley South top two golfers were Blake Mowell 93 and Parker Howard a 94 in district play.
Mississinawa Valley, Tri-County North and Tri-Village didn’t qualify as a team but did advance from sectional tournament to play in the district.
Kohen Burns from Tri-Village shot an 87, Jaxin Beanblossom for Mississinawa had a 90 and Brayden Bacher had a 93 for Tri-County North.
The Arcanum boys golf team didn’t advance out of sectional play … but Luke Stephens qualified as an individual for the OHSAA DII District Golf Tournament. Stephens shot a 75 tying him for the 4th best score overall and he would win a dramatic playoff hole to advance to State.
Luke will play October 6-7 at the NCR Country Club South Course in the OHSAA Boys DII State Championship.
National Trail will play October 13-14 at NorthStar Golf Club in the OHSAA Boys DIII State Championship, the same course they played at last year.
Good Luck to Luke and National Trail at state.
