Page 16/The Sun and News, Saturday, May 18, 2024TK golfers remain in middle of OK Gold golf pack
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The OK Gold Conference
varsity boys’ golf teams will
head to Kaufman Golf
Course in Grand Rapids for
the conference 18-hole
championship tournament
Wednesday.
Cedar Chase Golf Course
played host to the final con-
ference jamboree of the sea-
son, an 18-hole event where
the Thornapple Kellogg boys
shot their way to a fourth
place finish.
Grand Rapids Catholic
Central led the way with an
overall score of 303 strokes
ahead of Forest Hills Eastern
308, South Christian 308,
Thornapple Kellogg 351,Wayland 361, Kenowa Hills
362, Cedar Springs 365 and
Ottawa Hills 471.
Junior Kylan Pratt led TK
with an 86, freshman Parker
Dahley shot an 87 and junior
Will Nathan added an 88 at
the top of the leaderboard for
the Trojans. The TK team
also got a 90 from senior
Jordan Parks.
Pratt shot a 43 on both the
front and back nines, open-
ing the back nine with a run
of four consecutive pars.
Dahley had the Trojans’ lone
birdie of the day on the 368-
yard, par-4, number four.
The top ten golfers all
broke 80 for the day. Catholic
Central senior Matthew
Sokorai was the individualchamp with a 72. South
Christian junior Brody
Montsma and Catholic
Central senior Will Preston
both shot 73s.
The conference played
nine holes at the jamboree
hosted by Kenowa Hills at
Gracewil Country Club
Monday with Forest Hills
Eastern outscoring Wayland
155-162 at the top of the
standings. The standings were
mixed up overall, but the TK
boys were fourth again even
with a handful of different
golfers leading the way.
South Christian was third
with a score of 163 ahead of
Thornapple Kellogg 167,
Catholic Central 168,
Kenowa Hills 169 Cedar
Springs 182 and Ottawa
Hills 221.
Dahley led TK with a 39.
Exchange student Raphael
De Fresse De Monval shot a
41 for the Trojans, Owen
Corner tallied a 43 and the
Trojan team got a 44 from
freshman Mason Chivis.
Dahley got off to a great
start. He was even through
five holes with a birdie on
number two and three pars in
that stretch. De Fresse De
Monval also birdied number
two for TK, a 295-yard, par-4.
There was a three-way tie
for first individually. Kenowa
Hills’ Kaden Vargo,
Wayland’s Theo Oddy and
FHE’s Jack Klimek each
scored 38s.
In between the two confer-
ence competitions, the
Trojans got a few shots in at
Kaufman in a non-confer-
ence dual with Calvin
Christian. The Squires took a
160-175 win.
Pratt led TK with a 42,
Nathan shot a 43 and Dahley
and De Fresse De Monval
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Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Fighting Scot varsity
boys’ golf team was sixth in
a crowded field at the final
OK Red Conference jambo-
ree of the season Wednesday,
hosted by Grandville at
Kaufman Golf Course.
Just seven strokes separat-
ed second place from sev-
enth place.
Rockford had a little
breathing room at the top of
the leaderboard with a score
of 154 strokes. Grandville
was second with 166 ahead
of Hudsonville 167, Grand
Haven 169, Jenison 171,
Caledonia 172, West Ottawa
173 and East Kentwood 180.
Junior Mason Kern tiedfor sixth individually while
leading the Caledonia team
with a score of 39. He bird-
ied the 364-yard, par-5 num-
ber three and fired four pars
during his round.
The Caledonia boys also
got a pair of 44s from junior
Lukas Keson and junior
Parker Little. Sophomore
Camden Quigley shot a 45
for his team’s fourth score.
Grandville senior Tony
Spicuzza led the Bulldogs on
their home course with a score
of 35. Rockford senior Owen
Hodel was the runner-up with
a 36. Grand Haven junior
Carson Osborn, Rockford
freshman Owen Wilson and
Hudsonville junior Axel
Waara each scored a 38.The Scots are at the
Rockford RAM Invitational
today, May 18, at Cedar
Chase Golf Course. They
will head to Thornapple
Pointe for the OK Red
Conference Post-Season
Tournament Tuesday, May
21.
The Caledonia boys were
12th in a field of 18 teams at
Mona Shores’ Tom Wilson
Invitational at Muskegon
Country Club Monday.
Grand Rapids Catholic
Central took the day’s cham-
pionship with a score of 302
and Grand Rapids Christian
was second with a 305.
Kern was the leader for
the Scots with an 82 that had
him 20th individually.Thornapple Kellogg freshman Parker Dahley hits his tee shot on number seven
during the OK Gold Conference jamboree hosted by Kenowa Hills at Gracewil
Country Club Monday afternoon. Dahley led the TK team on the day with a score
of 39 strokes. (Photo by Brett Bremer)TKHS senior foreign exchange student Raphael De Fresse De Monval taps a
putt towards the hole on number six during the OK Gold Conference jamboree
hosted by Kenowa Hills High School at Gracewil Country Club Monday afternoon.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)Thornapple Kellogg senior Jordan Parks hits his
tee shot on number one at Gracewil Country Club
Monday during the OK Gold Conference jamboree
hosted by Kenowa Hills. (Photo by Brett Bremer)