Mitchell girls golf takes third place at Brookings meet
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May 21—BROOKINGS — In its last invitational tournament of the season, the Mitchell High School girls golf team posted a third-place finish in the Bill Scholten Invite at Brookings Country Club on Thursday.
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As a team, the Kernels recorded 323 strokes, ending eight strokes off the pace set by first-place O'Gorman (315) and also behind second-place Aberdeen Central (317). Sioux Falls Lincoln (344) edged out Yankton (345) to complete the top five in the team standings.
Leading the Kernels, Mia Larson and Maddie Childs each shot rounds of 79 strokes on the par-72 layout, checking in at sixth and seventh place, respectively, after a scorecard tiebreaker in the individual standings, which featured 78 golfers. Londyn Hajek (82) was 10th and Brynlee Sabers (83) was 17th to round out the MHS team score. Anna Eliason (86) and Elliot Smith (100) were also on the course for the Kernels.
En route to the team title, O'Gorman was led by individual runner-up Ari Jacobs (73), fourth-place Geneva Fredrickson (78) and fifth-place Erin Hurd (79). Meanwhile, Aberdeen Central's Olivia Braun shot an even-par-72 to earn individual medalist honors, and teammate Emma Dohrer (76) was third, as the Knights and Golden Eagles swept the top five individual positions.
Mitchell heads to the Eastern South Dakota Conference meet for its next action on Tuesday, May 26, hosted by Aberdeen Central at Moccasin Creek Country Club in Aberdeen.