Eagles, Lady Cats make progress

CLOVIS – Hobbs has one of many high highschool golf packages within the space, however Clovis Christian’s boys and Clovis Excessive ladies examined themselves in opposition to the Eagles and Girl Eagles in Wednesday’s CCS Eagle Invite at Colonial Park Golf Course.

Suffice it to say, each native groups made some progress.

Hobbs turned again CCS, successful the boys workforce title at 318 to 325 for the defending Class 1-3A state champion Eagles. Meantime, the Girl Wildcats shaved a number of photographs off their rating and completed second at 359 to 337 for Hobbs.

“If our guys can do away with that one blowup gap, we could be fairly good,” McKay mentioned. “However we’re beginning to play higher. We simply want to remain targeted.”

Clovis completed third on the boys facet at 384. For the ladies, Texico shot a season-best 415 for fourth place, with Portales coming in fifth at 443.

Sophomores Noah McKay, the coach’s son, and Bodee Bratcher shot an identical season-best rounds of 38-41 – 79 to tempo the Eagles, with all 5 of their workforce members capturing underneath 90.

“That is one of the best spherical for him this 12 months,” coach McKay mentioned of Bratcher. “Noah’s been fairly constant for us; we simply must get the others to be extra constant.”

CHS junior Jolee Adkins was third medalist for the ladies at 42-38 – 80, dropping a scorecard tiebreaker for second. All 5 Girl Cats had been in a position to break 100 on a course that typically performs a bit simpler than some the groups play in the course of the season.

“Jolei had 14 pars in the present day,” Girl Cats coach Joe Dvozenja mentioned. “The others all had their finest rounds of the 12 months. We had been actually specializing in the putts in the present day.”

Sophomore Liz Elam led Texico’s ladies and was fourth total at 84, her first time underneath 90. She mentioned a pleasant climate day helped a bit.

“The climate was good, however it acquired windy on the finish of the match,” Elam mentioned. “My placing in the present day was manner higher on the again 9.”

Girl Wolverines coach Kristen Gorman mentioned her squad had its finest day throughout.

“We performed a lot better,” she mentioned. “We chipped and putted higher. We had private bests for all 4 golfers.”

Clovis’ boys put three gamers underneath 100, led by 91s from junior Robert Albin and sophomore Jett Stone.

Senior Emma Gonzales was the highest scorer for Portales’ ladies, capturing 48-53 – 101.

Texico was slated to host its invitational tourney on Friday at Farwell Nation Membership, additionally to incorporate CCS and Portales. The Girl Wolverines are slated to compete within the Lovington Invitational on Tuesday whereas all space squads will participate within the Clovis Invite on Wednesday, set for a 9 a.m. begin at Colonial.