Jeffrey Moore was Thursday’s medalist with a round of 35. (Photos by Nick Goralczyk)
SYRACUSE – The Wawasee golf team finally found the win column in Northern Lakes Conference play Thursday night. The Warriors hosted Plymouth and NorthWood at South Shore Golf Club and split the triangular with a 156, downing NorthWood (164) while Plymouth swept the match with a 153.
Though splitting was not the goal for Wawasee, the scores from the Warriors were much more acceptable than the terrible NLC opener at Maplecrest in Goshen Tuesday night. In that match, Wawasee shot 176 to lose to both host Goshen and Northridge.
“We didn’t play bad tonight,” began Wawasee head coach Steve Coverstone. “We’re not disappointed. High score was 41, low was 35. That’s acceptable.
“What sticks in out craw is our performance at Goshen. We had a lot of poor decisions and mental mistakes that led to scores that we should never have shot.”
Jeffrey Moore, who shot a self-described “worst nine ever” at Maplecrest, rebounded to be the medalist in Thursday’s match with a 35. Moore had six pars and birdies on four and eight to highlight his night.
Cal Heinisch and Kaleb Perry each finished with a 40. Perry’s round featured a birdie on No. 4 while Heinisch parred seven holes. Tristen Atwood and Mason Germonprez also matched scores, both turning in a 41. Atwood birdied No. 1 as Germonprez shot par on four holes.
Alec Dutkowski had a 40 for NorthWood.
Ben Schenk and Reis Yoder helped Plymouth grab the sweep by turning in a 37 and 36, respectively. Caleb Lung and Nick Myers led NorthWood with a 39 each.
Wawasee (11-5, 1-3) will break away from the NLC heat this weekend as it travels to compete in the Culver Academy Invite.
Tournaments have been both great and harsh for the Warriors so far this season. Wawasee placed second at the Northrop Invite, fell apart at its own invite then won the Joe Harris Shootout in Warsaw. Coverstone knows anything could happen, he’s just hoping that anything is a win.
“We just have to go out and do the best we can,” Coverstone said. “We really haven’t been the model of consistency and part of that is inexperience. We have upperclassmen but they don’t play a lot of tournaments and it shows at times. We just have to find a level of consistency moving forward.”
Maclain Herr and Cameron Adams led the Warrior JV with a 45 each. No JV team scores were reported for any team.
Dustin Brown hits out of a bunker on No. 5 for Wawasee’s JV.