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TK STRONG!“I thought they played really well,”
coach Kaminski said. “When we first
started out, we were playing the toughest
part of the golf course and we were still
there near the top. But it is a long 18 holes
too. I thought they really played well.
“We had three sophomores today.
That’s young. I think we’ll be good.
They’ll be more experienced next year.
You have a bad hole and you let it seep
into the next one sometimes. They’ll be
better at that.”
The TK team wrapped its OK Gold
Conference competition last Thursday
at Kaufman Golf Course, placing fourth.
It was the first time all season that Leos
was bested in an OK Gold competition.
South Christian junior Anna Marcusse
won the 18-hole event with an 83 and
Leos was second with an 85. Leos was
still the conference’s top scorer for the
season – earn all-conference and confer-
ence tournament medals.
Of the six girls who shot 90 or better,
four were Sailors. South Christian won
the conference championship with an
overall score of 351. West Catholic was
second Thursday with a 380 ahead of
Northview 388, TK 419, Wayland 438
and Union NTS.
Borrink shot a 103, Hansson 111 and
Martin 120 to score for the TK team.
Coach Kaminski said having Leos
and Borrink at the top of the line-up
made the Trojan team competitive in
most of its contests this fall, and that’s
something that should help motivate
the youngsters for future seasons.
The regional champs from Gull Lake
also got an 85 from sophomore Allison
Vanhuysen, an 89 from senior Ella
Schaberg and a 93 from senior Aubrey
Crowley Tuesday. Sophomore Marley
Walters and senior Rachel Cox tied
for the St. Johns team lead with 85s.
Plainwell was powered to its third-
place finish by an 82 from sophomore
Ayla Jaeger.
Stenger and Lakeshore sophomore
Ella Roberts were the other two indi-
vidual state qualifiers along with Leos
from the tournament. Roberts was tenth
overall with a 101. The to ten was filled
with seven Gull Lake, St. Johns and
Plainwell golfers along with the three
individual state qualifiers.
“I played my first nine really, really
well and then I will say the windy con-
ditions got so much harder on the front
nine, which was my [second] nine, so
that was difficult,” Leos said.
She shot a 38 on the back nine and
then a 42 on the front. The wind played
havoc with an approach shot on number
six coming in towards the clubhouse,
but wound up being beneficial on her
long drive on seven.
Leos has learned to put trouble shots
behind her. While she said she is tak-
ing better lines this year and chipping
better, it is her mental toughness that
has really started taking her game to the
next level. She has been tournament-
tested over the years, both with the
Trojans and this summer when she
fought her way into and then through
a playoff in a Steph Curry Underrated
Tour qualifier in South Bend.
“I have started to learn that I can
trust myself to react the right way
under pressure, because beforehand
when you’re never in like big pressure
situations you can’t reenact a pres-
sure situation,” Leos said. “You can’t
make it. It’s never the same, not with
the adrenaline and the heart pumping.
All those different experiences, now I
know what to do and I know that I can
do it because I can trust all the practice I
had. That was really good too. Out here,
I knew I could make a par on the last
hole. It was just a matter of making the
four different shots their own to do it.”
She was happy to play the regional
on a familiar course, and is excited that
the state finals course in Allendale is
another one she gets to play at least one
or twice a year. It just makes things so
much more comfortable – but expect
her to know when to challenge her own
comfort level too.LEOS
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