Raiders sweep two conference golf meets
The Arcadia boys golf team earned two more Coulee Conference golf wins last week, taking the top team honors in Viroqua on Monday before beating out the other conference teams at the West Salem meet the following day.
Arcadia has yet to lose a conference match on the year.
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau team golfed to a fifth place finish at Viroqua Hills Golf Course and took home sixth at Fox Hollow, the par-35 course in La Crosse. Both Arcadia and G-E-T are scheduled to continue play this week in Black River Falls on Monday, followed by a visit to Castle Rock Golf Course on Tuesday for another conference meet.
The week closes with the Coulee Conference tournament at Drugan’s in Holmen.
CC at Viroqua Hills
Only one stroke separated Arcadia senior Cole Sobotta from Westby/Viroqua sophomore Brooks Hoffland last Monday at Viroqua Hills, and that stroke made all the difference when final scores were tabulated.
Sobotta’s 39 edged Hoffland’s 40 at the par-35 event, which was split between various holes on the front and back nine of the course.
That one stroke gave Arcadia the advantage it needed to keep its win streak alive—Arcadia carded the best team score with a 177, just ahead of Westby/Viroqua’s 178.
Sobotta opened his round with three straight bogeys before settling into his game with a birdie on the par-3 13th hole and adding just one extra stroke to his round over the final five holes.
Arcadia’s Sid Halvorsen tied with Westby/Viroqua’s Hudson Nundahl for fourth place with his 43, while G-E-T was led by Kylan Olson and Mason Kromrey at 48.
Luther finished third as a team with 190 strokes, followed by Black River Falls (194), G-E-T (196), and West Salem (197). Hillsboro took seventh with a 223.
Nic Jumper and Domanick Knott each shot a 50 for the Red Hawks, which also got a 52 from A.J. Johnson and a 54 from Maddox Scow.
Other Arcadia golfers included Joey Theis (46), Dustin Klonecki (49), Kaiden Rotering (49) and Caleb Pronschinske (50).
CC at Fox Hollow
Arcadia held off the host Panthers for the win last Tuesday.
The Raiders had the lowest score of the day with a 190, just ahead of West Salem at 195 and Westby/Viroqua at 197. Luther tied with Black River Falls with matching 207’s, one stroke clear of G-E-T at 208. Wonewoc-Center finished seventh with a 225.
Hoffland continued his strong stretch of play by earning medalist honors with a 4-over par 39, which was six strokes clear of second place.
Ben Larson of West Salem tied with Luther’s Tyler Arenz for second place at 45, which is when the county golfers began to show up often.
Arcadia turned in a quality top-three group and were led by two seniors—Halvorsen’s 46 and Sobotta’s 47 paced Arcadia for fourth and fifth place, and Theis shot a 48 to tie for seventh.
Jumper did enough on Tuesday to be G-E-T’s top score, as the sophomore was one of five golfers that tied with Theis at 48 to finish inside the top 10.
Klonecki (48, 12th place) and Rotering (49, T-13th) rounded out the Raiders’s scores.
Knott had the second-best finish for G-E-T with his 52, good for 17th place. The Red Hawks also saw Kromrey tie for 20th with Olson at 54, and Johnson shot a 55.
Scow shot a 57 for G-E-T.
