Sobotta leads county golfers with fifth-place at CC championship
Claire Wagner watched her shot land on the green of the 10th hole at Drugan’s Castle Mound Golf Course in Holmen during last Thursday’s Coulee Conference championship meet. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Arcadia sophomore Kalyce Sobotta was the county’s top golfer at the 2024 Coulee Conference girls golf championship, held last Thursday at Drugan’s Castle Mound Golf Course in Holmen.
Sobotta and the Raiders joined Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau at the tournament, the second of two Coulee vents last week including a Monday round in Black River Falls.
Both Trempealeau County teams are scheduled to begin the postseason with a Division Two regional in Wisconsin Dells this Wednesday.
Sobotta leads at conference
Only four golfers finished with better nine-hole scores than Sobotta at Thursday’s conference title meet.
Westby/Viroqua junior Maddi Fletcher played the best round of the event with a 6-over-par 42, and Black River Falls freshman McKenzie Apicella took second with a 50. Amanda Christianson of Westby/Viroqua tied Cochrane-Fountain City sophomore Jorja Wolfe with matching 52s, and Sobotta rounded out the top five with her 54.
Junior Jazlynn Olson was the Red Hawks’ top golfer at Drugan’s with a 59. The score tied her for seventh with two other golfers, including Arcadia sophomore Amaya Schlesser.
Cochrane-Fountain City performed the best as a team, winning the day with 228 strokes. Black River Falls placed second with 233, Arcadia was third with 236 and G-E-T placed fourth at 272.
Red Hawk senior Claire Wagner was also in the top 10, as her 60 tied a Black River Falls golfer for 10th.
Riley Walters shot a 61 for Arcadia, which also saw a 62 from Sacia Boland and a 63 from Jordan Walters. Julia Baures finished with a 71 for G-E-T, and teammate Madeline Ruud carded an 82.
Red Hawks second in Black River Falls
The final regular season conference meet of the season was played at Skyline Golf Course in Black River Falls last Monday.
The G-E-T girls golf team placed second at the meet with the help of a pair of top performances—Wagner and Olson each finished with a 55 to tie for sixth place.
Fletcher again posted a 42 to lead all golfers, while Sobotta was the Raiders’ best golfer with a 57 to place 10th.
The host Tigers won the event with 214 strokes, ahead of the Red Hawks’ second-place score of 249. Arcadia was the only other conference team with enough golfers for a squad score and shot a collective 254.
Schlesser and Walters both finished with 64s, and Boland shot a 69. Walters’ 85 was the final round of the day for the Raiders.
On the Red Hawk side, Baures shot a 67 and Ruud posted a 72.
