Well congrats to the BHS Red Raiders. I just spent a wonderful four days with our golf team at the state tournament. We took third last year as a team (after having won the previous six years) and so the team was really looking to bring that title back home. We qualified five girls to the first day of the tourney and while three moved on to the second day, we had one girl miss the cut by one stroke (for those golfers out there...one stroke, think of all the shots you wish you could get back in a round for just one lousy stroke). Another of our golfers struggled day one and amazing enough if it wasn't for one terrible hole would have been able to qualify for day 2.
The second day of state brought a bit more tension as day 2 is where the team title is determined. Our number one golfer had an excellent round being focused and poised from the get go to shoot even par and win the state title for the second year in a row, not an easy accomplishment. Our number 2 girl continued to struggle a bit and managed to shoot an 82 even with 7 three putts to end up in 7th place for the tourney and our third golfer came back from two tough holes on the front nine to shoot a 96 for 24th place.
It ended up being enough and while the head coach and I were pretty confident the team had won another title it was fun watching our girls squirm and sweat it out during the awards. Sure enough when they heard they were not the second place team they put two and two together and figured out they were in fact the state champions.
What a great week for the team!
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