SEDALIA — Just after the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the 2020 higher faculty boys golfing year, Hickman mentor Aaron Heath experienced a choice to make relating to his team’s personnel.
“We resolved to retain all the boys to test to fill groups. We experienced 20, which was a quite massive number for boys golf in large university,” Heath said. “We worked on it and we were capable to get the boys up right here. I’m tremendous proud of the boys this yr. It all sort of came collectively.”
“Up here” was the Course 5 event, which concluded Tuesday at Sedalia Place Club, where the Kewpies compiled a two-day total of 613 to complete in a tie with Marquette for fifth spot, just 23 strokes at the rear of champion Chaminade.
“It was a seriously major offer mainly because even some of the greatest teams in the state failed to get to arrive as a crew,” Hickman junior Joe Devoy mentioned. “I assume it was a major accomplishment that we acquired to arrive as a group no subject what took place.”
Fellow junior David Polacek led the way for the Kewpies, as the foreign trade student from the Czech Republic carded a two-working day overall of 2-around-par 142 to complete in fifth spot.
Polacek fired a scorching 2-underneath 68 in Monday’s opening spherical to land himself in the closing threesome of the working day on Tuesday wherever he light just a bit with a 4-over 74.
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“I truly feel like I played more robust (Monday) for the reason that I’m from Center Europe, so I am utilised to it a very little colder. It was circumstances that I am utilized to, so it performed into my playing cards, I would say,” Polacek mentioned Tuesday. “I was hitting the ball substantially much better yesterday. I hit 15 greens and I was fairly pleased about that. I truly feel like I was having difficulties with my strategy photographs currently, so that was the variance for me, I consider.”
Polacek will head dwelling in a pair months to put together for his senior calendar year, but will take with him fond recollections of his time at Hickman.
“This knowledge was astounding,” he mentioned. “I have a good friendship with guys on the group. I experienced some close friends in school. My English enhanced a great deal this calendar year. I am very content about that. That was my greatest objective.”
In distinction to Polacek, sophomore Blake Bullock had a more powerful 2nd round. The Rock Bridge transfer carded an 80 on Monday right before rebounding with a 74 on Tuesday. Bullock started off the 2nd round a minimal tough, but completed solid.
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“It was just 3-putts. That was my mess-up,” he said. “I’d strike the eco-friendly and then 3-putt, and I also experienced a double and bogey. (At the conclude), I just hit the middle of the environmentally friendly and then two-putted.”
Junior Jackson Kreisman tallied a two-working day complete of 158, whilst Devoy, who goes to Columbia Impartial School but plays for Hickman in a co-op, was ideal behind him at 159, including 5 pars and a birdie on No. 18 to finish his match on a large take note.
“Honestly, equally times were quite identical,” Devoy reported. “I was having difficulties for the 1st 9, 10 holes and variety of pulled it together a little bit to salvage something.”
Rock Bridge junior Willie Hose, the only Bruin to make it to point out, completed in 53rd place with a full of 157.
“First day, I hit the ball well. I just couldn’t make putts,” he mentioned. “Second day, I had a good front 9 and rolled in some putts. But on the again nine, two triples just killed me.”