By Coach Liesl Roorda
MARENGO – Montezuma’s boys and girls teams traveled to the Marengo Golf Course to take on Iowa Valley on Monday, April 26.
It was a sunny, beautiful afternoon with high gusting winds as the athletes took to the sloping and hilly course.
For the newer golfers, the creek running through the middle of the course and the winds, on especially the roadside holes, brought some challenges and frustrations which needed to be conquered.
Overall, the varsity boys came out on top scoring 178 to the Tigers’ 210.
Montezuma’s JV boys came in with a team score of 198. Medalist for the meet was Eddie Burgess with a 42 and runner-up medalist was Trey Shearer with a 45. Also scoring a 45 was Maguire De Jong.
Montezuma’s girls experienced the Marengo course for the first time and worked hard to conquer the hills and valleys. Maddy Fleming golfed a season-best 51 and came in just one stroke over the runner up medalist. Iowa Valley’s 218 took honors over Montezuma’s 234.
Wednesday, the boys will travel to Sigourney to play the home team and Van Buren. Thursday will be the final home meet of the season against English Valleys and all of our JV and varsity golfers will play.
Montezuma scores
Eddie Burgess 42
Trey Shearer 45
Maguire De Jong 45
Jacob Ross 46
Connor Van Zee 47
Cruz DeJ ong 48
Alex Cheney 47
Jack Erselius 48
Tod Geiger 48
Owen Cook 51
Cole Watts 60
Coleton Benson 60
Maddy Fleming 51
Aislyn Hutchcraft 56
Chloe Hutchcraft 63
Lauren Klos 64