Winning After MidKnight
In our
preview of the Middletown High School Knights Golf team’s match against the
Boonsboro High School Warriors and the Brunswick High School Railroaders at
Black Rock Golf Course (link here) on Wednesday August 24th, the
topic that discussed was what lessons the Knights would learn from Black Rock,
as that would be home to a much more important event in a month, their District
Qualifying Tournament to get them into states.
If Wednesday’s
match was any indication, not only did they learn some lessons from the course
but they look to be in a position to pass the class with flying colors as they
blew past Boonsboro and Brunswick by a score of 157-178-180.
The Knights (3-3)
had the match firmly in its’ grasps from the opening tee shot as Middletown’s
#1 and #2, sophomore Joey Weiland and senior Andrew Heon both went out and shot
rounds under 40 with Weiland carding a two under 34 for a season low while Heon
shot a plus four for a 38, which was one shot off of his season low.
The support
from the back-of-the-line golfers, especially in the #3 and #4 slots was
something that the Knights had been looking for as the team tries to get in
shape to qualify for and on Wednesday they got it in droves, as Middletown
senior Robbie Hocuk put up a 42 which was his low score of the season. Also, included
in the fun for Middletown was Justin Arnold who put up a 43 to round out the
Knights score of 157.
That score of
157 is very important for the Knights because it means that if you doubled the
score to represent the jump up from nine holes of play in a tr-match to
eighteen holes of play in the district tournament than the Knights would score
a 314 which in District I would almost certainly qualify the Knights for states
which will be the main goal for Middletown when they head back to Black Rock in
a month.
The Knights
will now head into next week with a little bit of momentum as a match-up
against the Westminster High School Owls looms large on Tuesday.
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