Golf: Knights try not to look past Tuscarora

By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight

 

It would be so easy for the Middletown High School Knights Golf team to look ahead of their contest on Tuesday September 6^th against the Tuscarora High School Titans.

After all the Titans finished as one of the lower teams in the county golf tournament and most likely will be a little below the degree of where the Knights are quality wise. Add the fact that Middletown is on their home course and has been playing some of their best golf this season coming into this game and it would appear that the Knights would cost through this one with their eyes closed.

That is precisely the thing that Middletown will attempt to avoid doing when they take on the Titans at Maryland National Golf Club in Middletown, Maryland at 4:00 p.m.

Help fueling the Knights’ will not to fall into the sleeply lull of looking past the underdog Titans is the memory of where the Knights were as a team less than half a month ago.

As has been mentioned here before, Middletown started off their season against four teams who you could say where “inferior” to the Knights, but things did not go as planned for Middletown providing a cautionary tale for Middletown as they moved on into the middle part of their schedule.

The Knights would split in a tri-match with Liberty and Catoctin and then fall to Smithsburg and South Carroll in another tri-match with all three of the teams that the Knights fell to not doing what they had accomplished in the previous season.

Placing a team entry in the state championship.

Middletown has atoned for their previous mistakes from earlier in the season as since then the Knights have played a streak of red hot golf as essentially everyone on the Knights team, playing from one to six has shot the ball well and gotten hot for the Knights at the right time.

This is crucially important for Middletown as not only do the Knights have an upcoming date with the Linganore High School Lancers in a tri-match, with the Lancers being the Knights’ top competition in the Central Maryland Conference but are also less than two weeks out from the 2016 Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association District 1 Championship, which is the tournament that will help the Knights qualify for the state championship.

But, there is still a task at hand for the Knights and that is to take down the Titans, something that if they failed to do could completely flip the script on how the Knights season has played so far up to this point.

Luckily, Middletown has not showed any signs of slipping up as over the past as the top three for the Knights, senior Andrew Heon; sophomore Joey Weiland; and senior Robbie Houck have all played solid all-around golf helping the Knights glide to the easy wins that they should have won and helping them eek out some close contests.

Helping the Knights in this instance is the fact that the Knights will be playing at their home course of Maryland National meaning that if things do start to slip away from the Knights that they will have the knowledge of the course to help them recover.

Middletown, will shoot not to be in that predicament though as they hope to easily dispatch of the Titans and allow them to finally start looking forward to Linganore.