Irish golfers outplay 13 other teams at Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Fresh off their first state basketball title in 94 years, North Platte St. Patrick’s captured first place again at the 14-team Cambridge Golf Invitational on Tuesday.

Connor Hasenauer set the tone with 37 on his first holes, and a total round of 76 took home that individual title.

Grant McQuay fired 78 for Alma, but the Cardinals only shared fifth place overall with Arapahoe’s Warriors.

Arapahoe leader Haidan Van Houtan fired a super consistent 4-4-4-4-4 on five of his final six holes to finish 12th at 92.

Senior Grant Taylor wasn’t far off Van Houtan’s pace while carding 98.

Senior Nolan Burrell shot 93 for Dundy County-Stratton, which was ranked No. 2 behind only NPSP during the basketball regular season.

Burrell placed 13th overall and the Tigers shared fifth at 418.

Hitchcock County (457) earned 1oth among 14 team scores. Maywood-Hayes Center scored 464 and Medicine Valley finished at 482.

Host Cambridge and Southwest did not register team scores.

Trojan Dylan Downer and Roughrider Gage Overton both totaled 109s to lead their teams.

Here’s a look at the best rounds for each Gazette-area team on Tuesday.

Cambridge — Downer 56-53-109; Brohdey Wood 54-64-118; Brodie Mitchell 62-66-128.

Southwest — Overton 49-60-109; Colton Sedlacek 56-54-110; Treven Critchfield 69-75-144.

Arapahoe — Van Houtan 49-43-92; Taylor 49-49-98; Ander Wasenius 51-52-103; Cooper Wendland 52-58-110.

DC-S — Burrell 45-48-93; Lane Brown 52-51-103; Cheve Lutz 50-56-106; Mark Nelms 58-58-116.

Hitchcock County — Anthony Christofferson 52-54-106; Ashton Johnson 60-53-113; Alaina Haddix 57-58-115; Darin Neben 63-60-123.

Maywood-Hayes Center — Weston Morrow 46-53-99; Ory Johnson 58-53-111; Kyler Cox 58-62-120; Tanner Sherman 65-69-134.

Medicine Valley — Kolin Pate 59-55-114; Kellen Cole 57-61-118; Bryce Wolfe 67-58-125; Lane Lenz 57-68-125.

Top 10 team scores: 1. North Platte St. Pat’s 345, 2. Overton 355, 3. Elm Creek 373, 4. Loomis 374, 5. Alma 403, 5. Arapahoe 403, 7. Dundy County-Stratton 418, 8. Hi-Line 455, 9. Franklin 456, 10. Hitchcock County 457.

Top 10 individuals: 1. Connor Hasenauer, NPSP, 76; 2. Grant McQuay, Alma, 78; 3. Brady Spotanski, EC, 79; 4. Teegan Sonneman, NPSP, 80; 5. Nate Gilling, EC, 82; 6. Alex Banzhaf, OVER, 86; 7. Quinn Johnson, LOOM, 87; 8. Kaden Lux, OVER, 87; 9. Braden Fleischman, OVER, 89; 10. Tyson Essex, LOOM, 90.

Paxton Invitational

PAXTON, Neb. — Wallace golfer Tyler Lundvall earned 13th place with his 116 at Tuesday’s Paxton Golf Invitational.

Host Tigers Jacob Holzfaster (91) and Ethan Hardin (94) placed 1-2 overall. No team scores were obtained.