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The SPSL/WCC state and district golf tournament was conducted at Chambers Bay today (10/23) and the week before at Gold Mountain.  Despite last weeks less than stellar team performance, the boys were the only team to get all 6 players to the tournament at Chambers Bay.  On a beautiful October day the boys did it again with all 6 completely dominating the other remaining teams by having all 6 boys either make it directly to state (3) or to districts (3).  Senior captain Chris Bean led the charge by following his solid 74 last week with a 75 to take 6th place.  Kevin Keiter finished 8th with a  superb 73 to go with his 78 and capture 8th place.  Not to be outdone, junior Joey McNelis carded a one under par 71 to move from a tie for 27th to 10th place to earn the third spot at state.  All three players will be making their third trip to state in May at Meadow Springs CC in the Tri-Cities.  The remaining three members of the team will play at Fort Lewis on Monday May 18 in the West Central District tournament.  Christian Letts came back from a poor showing at Gold Mountain (85) with a 10 shot reduction to 75 and good for a tie for 13th.  Freshman Devin Findlay (only 3 freshman were in the field) followed his 83 at Gold Mountain with a solid 81 effort to finish 22nd and senior Loren Johnson shot 85 to get into a 4 player playoff for the last three district spots.  Showing the calm of a seasoned veteran, Loren calmly parred the first hole to take 25th place.  Perhaps the best part of the boys story is how they played the back nine as a group.  Earlier this year the same group combined to score 100 points or 8 over par as a 6 man team.  They beat this score at Chambers Bay with McNelis and Keiter firing one-under par 35, Bean and Letts matching par at 36, Findlay coming back with a one over 37 after a poor front nine and Johnson firing a 40 for a point total of 105.  With 108 being even par the TEAM was on fire on the back nine!

Not to be outdone, the three girl players also all qualified either for state or districts.  With only two players in the field scoring lower than their Gold Mountain scores, Chambers Bay was a brutally tough test for the girls.  Freshman Rachel Lewis (the only freshman in the field) finished tied for 4th and earned a direct spot at state in the spring.  Rachel is only the second freshman girl in school history to accomplish this feat as a freshman.  The other player was some girl named Gilhuly and she went on to win state as a senior!  Rachel may win it more than once!  The other two Peninsula lady players qualified for the WCD tournament at Fort Lewis.  Junior Anna Heacox finished 11th while senior captain Katie Stavig finished right behind in 12th.  With nearly 7 months of practice before state I expect both girls and all three boys to be enjoying the Tri-Cities sunshine in late May.

I can not tell you how proud Tony and I were of these 9 players.  Teams that we lost to earlier in the year were steamrolled by the boys and our girls were only topped by the defending state champions in the number of players sent to state or districts.  Let all the golfers know that they represented "Go Seahawks" very well.

Coach Larry Gilhuly