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WILL KOWALSKI
Sports/Asst. Editor

Harper Creek High junior Joey

Mario and coach TR Walters’ Gull

Lake High team will be in action

this Friday and Saturday at Michigan

High School Athletic Association

championship final meets after quali-

fying for state via stellar efforts at

MHSAA regional tournaments last

week.

• Mario will compete in this

Friday’s and Saturday’s (June 7-8)

MHSAA Division 2 champion-

ships at Forest Akers West Golf

Course on the campus of Michigan

State University in East Lansing

after qualifying for state out of a

D-2 regional on May 28 at Bedford

Valley Golf Club in Battle Creek that

was hosted by Gull Lake.

Mario was one of three individual

state meet qualifiers who were not

on a state-qualifying team at Bedford

Valley. He shot a round of 77.

Mario’s performance came less

than a week after he earned All-City

medalist honors by carding a round

of 74 at Marywood Golf Club in

B.C. on May 23 in a meet hosted

by Pennfield – during which coach

Tony Evans’ Harper Creek squad

won the team AC trophy (with a

team photo of HC appearing in last

week’s Shopper News edition).

• And, the aforementioned Gull

Lake team qualified for state out

of the regional it hosted at Bedford

Valley by placing first with a score

of 302.

The other state-qualifying teams

out of the regional were second-place

Mason with 305 and third-place

Jackson Northwest with 311.

Beavers’ Mario, GL team advance to state golf finals

Harper Creek junior Joey Mario

• shown here lining up a putt at
  Marywood Golf Club in B.C. on
  May 23 during his All-City individual
  medalist performance – was a state
  meet individual qualifier at regionals
  last week and will compete in this
  Friday’s and Saturday’s MHSAA
  Division 2 Finals at Michigan State
  University’s Forest Akers West GC
  in East Lansing. (Shopper News photo
  by Will Kowalski)

Harper Creek junior Evan Munoz is shown chipping onto a green at Marywood

GC in B.C. on May 23 while playing his way into an individual medalist runner-

up position at All-City – with the All-City team title going to HC. A few hours

later, Munoz helped Harper Creek’s baseball team win the I-8 Conference

championship. (Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)

The individual medalist at the

regional was GL sophomore Max

VanderMolen, who had a 2-under-

par 70.

Also for GL at the regional, junior

Joseph Blondia had a 73, senior

Beau Carr had a 78 and junior Hank

Livingston and senior Ben Szabo had

81s.

Aside from Mario for sixth-

place HC at the regional – with the

Beavers having a team stroke total

of 325 – junior Colton Beard had an

80, junior Evan Munoz an 83, junior

Spencer Denney an 85 and freshman

Jake Schragg a no-count 89.

Note: Within hours of finishing

medalist runner-up, Harper Creek’s

Munoz helped HC’s baseball team

win the Interstate Eight Conference

championship.

And, for coach Fred Beronja’s

Pennfield Panthers at the regional

• with PHS finishing 18th with a
  score of 487 – sophomore Nolan
  Badger had a 99, sophomore Luke
  Noffsinger a 122, Brenden Back a
  132 and junior Dakota Parsons a

134. Aside from Harper Creek and Gull
     Lake in D-2, coach Dave Ouellette’s

Lakeview Spartans competed in a

D-1 regional on Wednesday, May 29

at Lincoln Golf Club in Muskegon;

and Climax-Scotts performed in

a D-4 regional at Coldwater Golf

Course on May 30.

• At the D-1 regional at Muskegon,
  Lakeview finished 18th with a team

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