SN 6.5.2021

Page 16/The Sun and News, Saturday, June 5, 2021

Scot golf season ends at D1 regional

Brett Bremer

Sports Editor

A handful of teams trailed

Rockford senior CJ Stephan

and Forest hills Northern

junior Jack Zubkus as they

played one playoff hole, and

then another, and another ...

at Milham Park Golf Course

in Kalamazoo Tuesday after-

noon.

Caledonia’s varsity boys’

golf team wasn’t one of

them. The Fighting Scots had

already seen Stephan and the

Rockford Rams do enough

winning in the OK Red

Conference this spring, and

the season had already come

to an end for the Fighting

Scots.

The Caledonia boys fin-

ished eighth in the 19-team

field at the Division 1

Regional Tournament hosted

by Loy Norrix High School.

Scot sophomore Jacob

Byanski led his team, shoot-

ing a 78, which left him three

strokes back of the final indi-

vidual state qualifiers from

the event.

The top three teams and

top three individuals not on

those teams at Tuesday’s

regional earned spots in the

Division 1 Lower Peninsula

State Finals which will be

held June 11-12 at Forest

Akers West Golf Course on

the campus of Michigan

State University in East

Lansing.

The playoff between

Stephan and Zubkus was just

to determine the day’s med-

alist honors. Both guys fin-

ished 18 holes at an even-

par-72. Stephan wound up

winning the team regional

championship with his

Rockford teammates and the

individual regional title as

well, parring the par-3 num-

ber 13, the fifth playoff hole,

while Zubkus had to settle

for a bogey.

Rockford won the regional

championship with a team

score of 295, ahead of Forest

Hills Northern 309, Portage

Northern 311, Mona Shores

312, Hudsonville 314, Forest

Hills Central 315, Grandville

319, Caledonia 323, Portage

Central 323 and Mattawan

328 in the top ten at the

event.

Rockford had four guys

among the top seven individ-

ually, with junior Ty

Marchiewski third with a 73

and seniors Oliver Haeberle

and Joshua Poot tying a few

others for seventh with 75s.

Senior Tyler Gillespie

from Forest Hills Northern

and Forest Hills Central

junior Joe Murdock finished

as the last two of the five

regional medalists, each

shooting a 74.

Murdock was tops among

the three individual state

qualifiers, with Mona Shores’

Nicholas Taylor and

Hudsonville’s Foster Faber

both shooting a 75 to earn

their spots in the state finals.

Behind Byanski for the

Scots, Senior Alex Roe and

junior Landon Wanless each

scored an 81. Senior Bryce

Fleisher scored an 83 and

senior JT Schwartz finished

his day with a 94. Roe and

Wanless tied for 30th overall.

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Fighting Scot senior Bryce Fleisher lines up a putt on number 11 during the Division
1 Regional Tournament at Milham Park Golf Club in Kalamazoo Tuesday. (Photo by
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Caledonia senior JT Schwartz successfully punches his ball out of a trap next to the

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Caledonia senior Alex Roe hits his tee shot on number

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