By Tom Reck
Tribune-Star Correspondent
TERRE HAUTE
July 16, 2008 10:58 pm
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Close finishes could be in order in two divisions of todays final round of the city junior golf tournament.
The final totals were set following second-round play Wednesday in warm conditions at Hulman Links. The final 18 holes will be played today at Rea Park.
Three shots separate the three leaders in the girls 15-17 group, while Zach Hosking has a four-shot lead over Thomas Goss in the boys 15-17 totals.
Three Terre Haute South girls are at the top of the girls 15-17 leaderboard. Sloane Engle leads with 165 followed by Kelsey Fuqua at 166 and Katelyn Gosnell at 167.
Rachel Welker is the leader in the girls 13-14 division with 170 and has a chance to take the overall girls championship with a good final round.
Hosking had the best 18-hole score at Hulman Links with 1-under-par 71, duplicating his first-round score, and he stands at 142 going into the finals. Goss total is 146; he has the only other sub-par 18-hole score with 69 at Rea Park.
Jackson Jarvis is third with 151 followed by James Stewart at 152 and Shelby Stewart with 153. Tyler Schrohe and Brandon Bekkering both are at 154 to round out the top six.
Hosking is going for a repeat in the older boys division. Goss has won his age group the past three years in the tournament.
Two of the young players continued their fine play at Hulman Links.
Jaron Hutsom, who is from Chillicothe, Ill., has shot 37 both days for 74 and has an eight-shot lead over Luke Dugger in the 10-and-under division.
Hutson earlier won his age group in the Rea Park Junior Classic when he carded his best score, a 36. I have been playing about a year, he said.
Nathan Pirtle shot 38 at Rea Park and followed it with par-36 at Hulman Links for 74. He has a 10-shot lead over Adam LaGrange in the 10-and-under bracket.
Pirtle has the record nine-hole score in the city, shooting 30 at Rea Park, and is going for his fourth title in the city. He also plays on the Pepsi Tour and is in first place in the championship totals.
He will be in the sixth grade at Carlisle Elementary School and has been playing competitively since he was 6 years of age.
LaGrange will be in the 7th grade at St. Patricks School. He also competes on the Pepsi Tour and ranks 11th after playing in two events.
He has had rounds of 43 and 41.
Sam Pollock followed his 75 at Rea Park with an 83 at Hulman Links and leads Ryan Bahr by 11 shots in the boys 13-14 division. Welker has a 12-shot lead over Bailey Craft in the girls 13-14 totals.
The younger boys will tee off earlier today, playing the back nine at Rea Park, to avoid playing in the heat of what is expected to be another warm day.
City Junior 36-hole scores
Boys 15-17
Championship flight
142 Zach Hosking
146 Thomas Goss
151 Jackson Jarvis
152 James Stewart
153 Shelby Stewart
154 Tyler Schrohe, Brandon Bekkering
156 Jordan Gaskill
157 Drew Snyder
158 Brock Welch
159 Cory Gertz
First flight
166 Ryan Turner
167 Eric Gertz
168 Sam Harbaugh
169 Will Pollock, Jarrod Short
172 John Pollock
173 James Kaperak
174 Josh Hoskins
175 Nick Vrabic
176 Walker Smith, Logan Valentine
184 Mason Short
188 Logan Bucy
191 Jake Exline
200 Cody Kosinski, Dave Vanover
215 Patrick Dighton
Boys 13-14
158 Sam Pollock
169 Ryan Bahr
170 Ryan Baker
173 Sam Kigin
177 Jon Payne
179 Kent Sato
182 Luke Peoples
188 Andrew Behnke
198 Sam Mimms
203 A.J. Buis
Boys 11-12
74 Nathan Pirtle
84 Adam LaGrange
91 Jack Harbaugh
101 Andrew Weisheit
106 Gunar Alumbaugh, Ted Minnett
108 Dominic DeSantis
115 Jack Thomas
118 Jacob Givens
121 Josh Ford
137 Luke Bailey
Boys 10-under
74 Jaron Hutsom
82 Luke Dugger
84 Justin Wilson
85 Cameron Lewellyn
108 Kyler Wallace
110 Jaylen Minnett
Girls 15-17
165 Sloane Engle
166 Kelsey Fuqua
167 Katelyn Gosnell
187 Abby Colwell
191 Katie Thomas
198 Bre Opremchak
200 Emily Adams
203 Cecelia Gray
205 Mary Roberts, Brittany Edmondson
218 Hayley Miller
219 Rachel Helt
220 Samantha Greasor
239 Lauren Hutchison
253 Emily Wheatfill
255 Hannah Curlay, Erica Myers
Girls 13-14
170 Rachel Welker
182 Bailey Craft
275 Miranda Dammann
Girls 10-under
94 Erica Sato
114 Kyla Jarvis
Todays tee times at Rea Park
Boys, girls 10-under, back nine 9 holes
8:30 a.m. K. Jarvis, J. Minnett
8:38 K. Wallace, E. Sato, C. Llewellyn
8:45 L. Dugger, J. Wilson, J. Hutsom
Boys 11-12
8:54 L. Bailey, J. Ford
9:02 J. Givens, J. Thomas, D. Santis
9:10 T. Minnett, G. Alumbaugh, A. Weisheit
9:18 J. Harbaugh, A. LaGrange, N. Pirtle
Boys 15-17
First flight
9:30 P. Dighton, C. Kosinski
9:38 D. Vanover, J. Exline, L. Bucy
9:46 M. Short, W. Smith, L. Valentine
9:54 N. Vrabic, J. Hoskins, J. Kaperak
10:02 J. Pollock, J. Short, W. Pollock
10:10 R. Turner, E. Gertz, S. Harbaugh
Championship flight
10:18 C. Gertz, B. Welch
10:26 J. Gaskill, B. Bekkering, D. Snyder
10:34 T. Schrohe, S. Stewart, J. Stewart
10:42 J. Jarvis, T. Goss, Z. Hosking
Girls 13-14/15-17
10:50 S. Engle, K. Fuqua, K. Gosnell
10:58 R. Welker, B. Craft, A. Colwell
11:06 K. Thomas, B. Opremchak
11:14 C. Gray, E. Adams
First flight
11:20 B. Edmondson, M. Roberts
11:26 R. Helt, H. Miller
11:32 S. Greasor, L. Hutchinson
11:38 E. Myers, H. Curlay
11:44 M. Dammann, E. Wheatfill
Boys 13-14
11:54 Sam Pollock, R. Bahr, R. Baker
12:02 p.m. S. Kigin, J. Payne, K. Sato
12:10 L. Peoples, A. Behnke
12:18 A. J. Buis, S. Mimms
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