The Prep Beat

Central Kitsap’s Katie Lee shot back-to-back even-par 72s at the Class 4A girls state tournament in Spokane. She finished in a three-way tie for first and lost in the second hole of a playoff. We’ll have more later.
You’ll find complete results here.

Katie Lee is in a three-way tie after shooting a 72.

You can find complete results here.

Klahowya junior Sally Fletcher was named the Olympic League golf MVP Friday.

Fletcher had a 47.4 scoring average for 9-holes. Joey Barnes of Port Angeles, who won the Tim Higgins Memorial Golf tournament last week, was named the boys MVP. Barnes averaged 38.0 (9-hole).

The OL tournament is Tuesday at Gold Mountain. Tee times start at 11:30 a.m. The girls will play on the Cascade course, while the boys will be on the Olympic course. The top six boys qualify for the Class 2A state tournament while the following nine gain berths into the West Central District tournament, May 15, also at Gold Mountain.

The top eight girls earn automatic state berths while the next 12 qualify for districts at Gold Mountain.

All-League

Boys

Team champion—Sequim

MVP—Joey Barnes (PA) 38

All-League—Jordan Negus (PA) 38.4, Ryan O’Mera (Seq) 38.5, Logan Schnuit (Kla) 40.2, Trent Ferris (Oly) 40.8, Garrett Payton (PA) 40.8, Casey Torres (Seq) 43.4.

Girls

Team champion—Sequim

MVP—Sally Fletcher (Kla) 47.4

All-League—Aimee Zehrung (King) 48.4, Hailey Estes (Seq) 48.8, Dana Fox (PA) 49.1, Karin Muggli (NK) 51.1, Elisa Sallee (Seq) 52.5, Anna Rees (NK) 53.5.

Crosspoint Academy will be represented at the Class 1B/2B boys and girls bi-district tournament, Thursday, May 10.

Crosspoint golfers who qualified for bi-district are Steven Zipay, Jacob Kenaston, Chris Leu, Sam Anderson and Kelly McCartney.

Zipay, a junior, finished second in the Sea-Tac League championships on Thursday at West Seattle GC with an 84. Kenaston, a senior, finished sixth (93), followed by Leu, a junior, who finished sixth (104) and Anderson, a senior, who is an alternate.

McCartney, a freshman, finished fourth in the girls with a 117. She’s the first Crosspoint girl to qualify for district in about 10 years, said CPA athletic director Christine Cattell.

The bi-district tournament will be held at Gallery Golf Course in Oak Harbor, Wash., and begins at 11 a.m.

Central Kitsap beat South Kitsap in a Narrows League boys golf match. The win improved the Cougars to 5-0.
CK has one of its best golf teams. They already beat perennial state power Bellarmine Prep. The big match coming up is against Olympia, which is also undefeated. That match is is May 1 at Tumwater.
CK assistant coach Larry Tuke said this team has great chemisty. The seniors are playing great, and three freshman have really stepped up. Frosh Aubrey MacKenzie has won medalist in half the team’s matches.
“I wouldn’t bet against these kids,” Tuke said.

For the past several years it seemed as if Bainbridge’s golf team was unbeatable at home. They almost were, actually.

But O’Dea came to Wing Point and beat the Spartans in a Metro League match, 139 to 138, last week.

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Central Kitsap’s Erynne Lee blew away the field to win the Class 4A state girls golf title. Lee shot a 66 on the second day and won by eight strokes.
Erynne’s sister Katie finished sixth.

Bainbridge’s Carl Jonson finished second, trailing by just a stroke.

Complete results are here. We’ll have more later.

You can see the results here.

CK’s Erynne Lee is a stroke back in the 4A tournament. Bainbridge’s Carl Jonson and North Kitsap’s Troy Means are also in the mix.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The National Federation of State High School Associations has rejected a proposal that would have allowed it to conduct national championships in golf and cross country.
Though 22 member state associations were in favor and 21 were against it, a two-thirds majority was required.
Executive director Bob Gardner said this week’s vote shows that state championships are still the preferred goal in high school sports.
“The NFHS will continue to support the more than 7.6 million student-athletes involved in high school sports whose dream each year is to win a state title in their particular sport,” Gardner said.
Since the original declaration by the membership against national championships in 1934, the federation has not supported or sanctioned national competition that leads to a single team champion. In 1979, there was a 38-9 vote against a proposal to conduct national invitational competitions in golf, tennis, and track and field during the summer.
The Indianapolis-based federation has directed development of model national championships in several sports for consideration by its members.

The WIAA executive board also made changes to the state golf tournaments.
The 4A and 3A tournaments will remain in Spokane — where all the tournaments were held last spring — and the 2A/1A and 1B/2B sites have been moved to Tacoma.
The sites are; 4A girls at Downriver GC, Spokane; 4A boys at Creek at Qualchan GC, Spokane; 3A girls at Liberty Lake GC, Spokane; 3A boys at MeadowWood GC, Spokane; 2A girls at Lake Spanaway GC, Spanaway; 2A boys at The Classic GC, Spanaway; 1A boys and girls at The Home Course, Dupont; 1B/2B boys and girls at Meadow Park GC Lakewood.