WOODWARD — The results from Thursday’s 18-hole Woodward-Granger Invitational left Perry girls head coach Joel Happel in something of a pickle.
While it would be hard to argue with strong scores from the three Jayettes in action, the fact that Perry did not have a fourth player make the rounds left the team unable to record an official score.
Alyssa Kruger was the runner-up medalist with a 44-47–91, with Delaney Eiteman tying for fourth place with a 50-51–101. A solid 53-58–111 from Hanna Roberts had the Jayettes in great shape.
Unfortunately, the team was without Molly Lutmer and Skylar Cunningham and thus had no team score. So strong were the first three against the field that a round of 121 or lower would have won the team title, and, barring something extraordinarily unusual, that would have almost certainly been the result.
As it turned out, Panorama used a lower fifth score (four are counted for the team total, the fifth used as a tiebreaker) to bump Ballard for the team title after each finished at 425. ADM was third at 437, with W-G (446), Ogden (453) and AC/GC (494) following. Madrid also had only three players and thus did not generate a team score.
Ogden’s Maranda Wheelock (46-43–89) was the overall medalist, with Kruger (44-47–91) second and Ballard’s Alle Echer (52-43–95) third. Eiteman (50-51–101) and AC/GC’s Haley Sheeder (52-49–101) tied for fourth.
Madi Fear (50-53–103), Lauren McClatchey (53-53–106), Anna Duis (49-59–108) and Jordan Douglass (55-63–108) provided the scoring for team titleist Panorama. The Panthers won when their fifth score — a 51-59–110 from Abby Cobb — was 15 strokes better than Ballard’s fifth score. Chloe Webster (56-57–113) was also in action for Panorama.
W-G’s Cierra DeHoet just missed a medal in leading the Hawks with her 50-52–102. Aubrey Mescher (58-52–110), Emma Greiner (55-61–116) and Bailey Thompson (59-59-118) also scored for the hosts. The Hawks did not count the rounds produced by either Emily Trewet (56-68–124) or Megan Burkhart (70-63–133).
Lauren Smith (48-59–107), Ana Vier (53-54–107) and Ashley Drew (59-57–116) joined Echer in scoring for Ballard, with Emily Nueman (51-52–103), Alyssa Pingel (54-52–106), Liv Rickert (54-55–109) and Grace McElwain (56-63–119) scoring for ADM.
Odgen had Faith Mohr (56-58–114), Shaylie Johannsen (58-61–119) and Emma Blair (67-64–134) adding their scores to the medalist card of Wheelock, with the quartet of Sheeder, Kena Baier (59-56–115), Jessica Stringer (65-66–131) and Sally Jo Geckler (73-74–147) creating the AC/GC total.
Also in action were the Madrid trio of Sydney Weise (57-56–113), Sophia Harshbarger (55-56–113) and Malorie Smith (68-67–135).
Perry will host Ballard and Norwalk today in a meet postponed from April 3. They will then visit ADM for a triangular Thursday.
