Sweet Home’s boys placed third in its final regular-season golf match, this one at home at Mallard Creek Golf Course.
Behind Casey Horner’s 89 – the lowest score by any Sweet Home golfer thus far this season, the Huskies scored 403 points to trail Cottage Grove (359) and Junction City (394). La Pine did not score as a team because it only had two golfers.
“Casey had a good day,” Coach Ken Anderson said. “We’ve been working real hard with him on tempo and I think he’s starting to figure that out.”
Stephen Bishop shot 99, Christian Porter carded a season’s-best 105, Austin Yoder finished with 110 and Brenner Roberts shot 120 to round out Sweet Home’s scoring.
“He’s only a freshman,” Anderson said of Roberts, who got moved up from the junior varsity. “He’s gotten thrown into the fire the last couple of matches. He’s performing better than we expected.”
The Huskies are young – four sophomores, a freshman and two juniors, and it’s taken time for them to learn the game, said Anderson, who’s in his first year as coach.
“We’re just making good, steady progress. The kids are starting to figure out that if they apply the things we’re working on in practice, once they do that we’ll be a pretty good team. They’re starting to figure it out a bit.”
Sweet Home will compete in the District tournament Monday and Tuesday, May 7-8, at Tokatee in Blue River.
“We’re going to have qualifying this week,” Anderson said. “We’re only going to take five. So there’s going to be some serious competition to get the top five there.”