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Washington - Girls Golf

Kamin 3rd in MVC golf tourney

IOWA CITY --Linn-Mar had five golfers in the top 10 places and ran away with the MVC Mississippi Division girls golf tournament Monday at Pleasant Valley Golf Course.

Monday's meet was the second leg of the tournament series to determine the MVC division champions. The Lions came into Monday with a five-stroke lead over Dubuque Senior after last week's Super Meet.

Linn-Mar shot 365 as a team and finished with a 20-stroke advantage over second-place Dubuque Wahlert. Senior was third, 30 strokes back. Kennedy was fifth and Washington seventh.

Kennedy's Ali Lindo shot an 80 to finish second Monday. She also finished second overall with a two-round total of 168.

Dubuque Wahlert's Amy Ihm was medalist with a 72. She shot 73 in the first round to finish as overall medalist with a 145. Ihm was named the Mississippi Division player of the year.

Washington's MJ Kamin was third and Linn-Mar's Julie Pople fourth.

Other Lions finishing in the top 10 were Katie Harding (sixth), Rachel Thrune (tied for seventh) and CJ Davis and Danielle Toy (tied for ninth).

Linn-Mar's Steve Kahler was named Mississippi Division coach of the Year.

 

MVC MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
GIRLS GOLF MEET

Monday
At Iowa City (Pleasant Valley)

Teams -- 1. Linn-Mar 365, 2. Dubuque Wahlert 366, 3. Iowa City High 377, 4. Dubuque Senior 390, 5. CR Kennedy 415, 6. Waterloo West 417, 7. CR Washington 453

Top five individuals -- 1. Amy Ihm (DW) 72, 2. Ali Lindo (CRK) 80, 3. MJ Kamin 84, 4. Rachel Stewart (ICH) 88, 5. Julie Pople (LM) 89

LINN-MAR (365): Julie Pople 89, Rachel Thune 90, Emma Lorenz 93, Katie Harding 93, Danielle Toy 96, CJ Davis 97

KENNEDY (415): Ali Lindo 80, Sadie Schultz 107, Raemi Chavez 113, Hannah Harberts 115, Breanna Osterkamp 122, Amanda Wiedemeier 154

WASHINGTON (453): MJ Kamin 84, Kandis O'Donnell 114, Courtney Chadima 117, Sophia Ochs 138, Mady Goodwin 140, Elizabeth Stanczyk 141


Final Standings
1. Linn-Mar                  362-365--727
2. Wahlert                   381-366--747
3. Dubuque Senior       367-390--757
4. Iowa City High         388-377--765
5. CR Kennedy            412-415--827
6. Waterloo West        423-417--840
7. CR Washington       438-453--891

Coach of the Year -- Steve Kahler (LM)

Mississippi Division Player of the Year -- Amy Ihm (DW)

Final Individuals
1. Amy Ihm (DW)            73-72--145
2. Ali Lindo (CRK)            88-80--168
3. MJ Kamin (CRW)         86-84--170
4. Julie Pople (LM)           88-89--177
5. Rachel Stewart (ICH)  92-88--180
6. Katie Harding (LM)     89-93--182
7. Jordyn Engelken (DS)  90-95--185
7. Rachel Thrune (LM)     95-90--185
9. Madi Davis (DS)            91-98--189
9. CJ Davis (LM)               92-97--189
9. Danielle Toy (LM)        93-96--189
9. Emily Koepnick (ICH)  94-95--189

Top six earned first team all-conference
Next six earned second team all-conference

 

Washington - Girls Golf

Wash girls drop triangular in Davenport

DAVENPORT - The Cedar Rapids Washington girls golf team finished third in a triangular meet at Duck Creek in Davenport Thursday.

Davenport Central edged Davenport West, 220-222, for the team title. The Warriors finished at 255.

Kandis O'Donnell led Washington with a 58. MJ Kamin, Washington's top golfer, did not compete in the meet. She's also a member of the Washington soccer team that had a game against Jefferson Thursday night.

Teams -- 1. Davenport Central 220, 2. Davenport West 222, 3. CR Washington 255

Medalist - Emmy Marker, Davenport Central, 49.

WASHINGTON (255): Kandis O'Donnell 58, Mady Goodwin 63, Elizabeth Stanczyk 67,   Katherine Wohlers 67, Hannah Bott 67, Anna Rohde 70.

 

Washington - Girls Golf

Kamin ties for 4th at Linn-Mar Invy

Ali Lindo admits she's stubborn.

A lot of golfers would have retired for the day after aggravating a painful knee injury in the middle of their round, but Lindo stayed on the course and limped through the final 11 holes of the Linn-Mar Invitational at Hunters Ridge Golf Course Tuesday in Marion.

Remarkably, the Cedar Rapids Kennedy junior shot an 11-over-par 83 to finish only one shot behind the leaders on a warm, sunny day.

Lindo said she never thought about quitting.

"No. I don't like quitting," she said emphatically, sitting in the clubhouse with an icebag on her right knee. "I had to do that over the summer in a tournament because I got diagnosed with asthma or some kind of breathing disorder, and I just don't like walking off courses."

See? Stubborn.

"Yeah, I'm stubborn in a lot of ways," she said. "That's definitely one of them."

Cedar Rapids Jefferson senior Megan Furnish tied Taylor Roberts and Megan Brewer of Cedar Falls for medalist honors with an 82, but Furnish was not happy with her round. "Not so good," she said. "I played terrible."

Furnish won medalist honors at the CRANDIC meet last week and is 2-for-2 this season at the top of the leaderboard in major events.

Lindo originally hurt her knee in December while participating in show choir at Kennedy. "I was jumping over a box of stairs and I slipped," she said. "I don't know what I did. Neither do the doctors, because they told me nothing was wrong. But if it's hurting, I'm going to go with something's wrong."

Lindo was leaving the seventh green Tuesday when she aggravated the injury.

"I was going down the hill and I slipped, which kind of restarted the pain," she said. "So now my knee hurts and I need to ice it before it swells up again."

She said the knee has bothered her ever since she got hurt in show choir. "Yeah, pretty much," she said. "Whenever I walk too much."

High school golfers can ride a cart between holes, but otherwise they have to walk the course. Hunters Ridge measures 5,090 yards for the women from the gold tees, so she walked roughly two miles Tuesday on the rolling course after aggravating the knee injury.

"I didn't start limping until the back-9, because it started to hurt a ton more," she said. "I didn't have any ice when we came around the turn (after nine holes), so it got worse as the holes went on."

Lindo described a stabbing, throbbing pain. "A little bit of both," she said. "It stabs in the back (of the knee) and then throbs if I don't put ice on it after a while."

Doctors have taken an MRI, but found nothing wrong. Still, it hurts.

"I've been taking Advil pretty much daily to keep the pain away, and I didn't have any in my bag today," she said. "I'll be prepared from now on."

Lindo planned to seek expert advice when she got home. "I'll probably just talk to my dad, because he's a doctor," she said. "I'll just talk to him and see if he thinks anything is wrong. I'll probably just end up icing it for a couple of more weeks."

Lindo finished third at the CRANDIC meet last week with a 75 at Airport National and tied for fourth Tuesday with MJ Kamin of Washington with her 83. She said she's improved significantly from last season when she shot mostly in the high-80's to mid-90's.

"Last summer I played in tons of tournaments," she said.

Lindo was satisfied with her 83, considering she played half the round in pain.

"I could have shot a lot worse. I could have shot better," she said philosophically. "I was trying not to put too much pressure on it when I was walking between holes or between shots, because I wanted to be able to put pressure on it when I actually swung."

The Cedar Falls Tigers, who won the Class 4A state title last year, ran away with the team championship Tuesday with a four-girl score of 335. The Linn-Mar Lions, who placed eighth at the state meet in 2011, finished second at 379. Emma Lorenz led the Lions with a 91.

LINN-MAR INVITATIONAL
At Hunters Ridge
5,090 yards, Par-72

Team Standings

1. Cedar Falls 335, 2. Linn-Mar Black 379, 3. North Scott 419, 4. Prairie 424, 5. Jefferson 428, 6. Waterloo West 437, 7. Kennedy 438, 8. Anamosa 438, 9. Linn-Mar Red 452, 10. Marion 453, 11. Clinton 464, 12. Washington 468.

Top 10 Individuals

1. Megan Furnish, Jefferson,            82
Taylor Roberts, Cedar Falls            82
Megan Brewer, Cedar Falls            82
4. Ali Lindo, Kennedy                     83
MJ Kamin, Washington                83
6. Allison Rolinger, Cedar Falls          84
7. Hannah Hagarty, Cedar Falls        87
8. Lauren Denning, Waterloo West  89
9. Emma Lorenz, Linn-Mar              91
10. Taylor Wade, Marion               92

LINN-MAR BLACK: Emma Lorenz 91, Julie Pople 94, CJ Davis 97, Lauren Coughlin 97, Rachel Thrune 98, Danielle Toy 101.

PRAIRIE: Kerstin Flugum 102, Alyssa Beisker 103, Emily Perrin 105, Konnor Griffith 114, Addy Shaw 121.

JEFFERSON: Megan Furnish 82, Emily Aukes 100, Sarah Tortora 121, Megan Kibby 125, Sammy Seeman 143.

KENNEDY: Ali Lindo 83, Raemi Chavez 115, Sadie Schultz 118, Hannah Harberts 122, Amanda Wiedemeier 124, Breanna Osterkamp 134.

LINN-MAR RED: Taylor Dalecky 102, Alex Dunn 112, Georgia Kolf 119, Jade Hall 119, Kristin Eiles 121, Amanda Shannon 127.

MARION: Taylor Wade 92, Ashley Reed 99, Ashley Ohl 130, Kaitie Connelly 132, Haley Shaffer 172.

WASHINGTON: MJ Kamin 83, Kandis O'Donnell 107, Elizabeth Stanczyk 133, Anna Rohde 145, Kate Nash 148.

   

Washington - Girls Golf

Kamin bursts onto Metro golf scene

M.J. Kamin got some funny looks from golfers on the other teams last spring when she competed in junior varsity meets for Cedar Rapids Washington as a freshman.

"It took about five holes before they said, 'Why aren't you playing varsity?,' and then I'd have to tell them the story," she related Wednesday at Airport National.

Kamin lives in the Kennedy school district and open-rolled at Washington, which meant she was not eligible for varsity competition as a ninth grader due to Cedar Rapids district rules.

"It was frustrating at first, but I kind of got used to playing JV," she said.

Kamin showed Wednesday that she's one of the top high school golfers in the Metro area by firing a 74 and finishing second at the CRANDIC tournament.

Jefferson senior Megan Furnish won the meet with a 7-over-par 72 in blustery conditions on the 3,760-yard course in southwest Cedar Rapids. Kamin played in the same group with Furnish and finished two strokes behind.

"I really like playing with her to see how I stack up against her. It's nice to know where I was in the group," said Kamin. "It's really helpful."

Kamin attended Franklin Middle School, which sends about 75 percent of its students to Washington and the other 25 percent to Kennedy. And even though she lives in the Kennedy district, she wanted to join her friends at Washington. Her older brother Grant, a golfer and tennis player, also open-enrolled at Washington.

Furnish, who has signed to play golf at Missouri State, has been one of the premier golfers in the Metro for the past two years. Like Kamin, she also lives in the Kennedy district but open-enrolled as a frosh at Jefferson, where the majority of her friends from Taft Middle School went.

Kamin could challenge Furnish for top honors this season, and so could Ali Lindo of Cedar Rapids Kennedy.

Lindo shot a 75 Wednesday to finish in third place as Metro golfers placed 1-2-3 in a major meet against their peers from Iowa City.

Linn-Mar ran away with the team championship with a steady four-girl score of 326. Julie Pople led the Lions with an 80 and C.J. Davis, Rachel Thrune and Katie Harding all fired 82's to give Linn-Mar a 15-shot victory over Iowa City High.

Furnish had bogeys on three of her first four holes Wednesday morning in the worst of the weather, then settled down. She finished the round with 11 pars and seven bogeys.

Furnish battled problems with her lower back last year, but she's undergone physical therapy and said she feels much better, with only an occasional twinge when she makes a bad swing. "I'm pretty good," she said.

She said she's worked on her "long swing" and swing path since last season, trying to hit the ball further and with more accuracy. "It's been good so far," she said. "I'd like to be consistent in my game."

Furnish said she gained confidence last summer by competing in national junior tournaments and is looking for a successful end to her prep career. She's never qualified for the state tournament and hopes to rectify that omission this spring.

"Hopefully third time is the charm," she said.

Kamin finished her round with one birdie, nine pars, six bogeys and two double-bogeys. One of the double-bogeys came on the par-3 third hole, which is only 122 yards long. She put her drive on the green but four-putted from 15 feet.

"It just kind of got away from me," she said.

If she had two-putted on that hole, she would have finished with a 72 and tied Furnish for medalist honors.

"I felt pretty good today," said Kamin, who carries a 4.3 GPA on a 4.0-scale at Washington. "I was hitting them really well. I just need to be a little bit better on my putting."

Kamin has the same goal as Furnish this year. "I would like to make it to state," she said.

Maybe they'll battle their way to the same destination.


CRANDIC GOLF MEET
At Airport National
3,760 Yards, Par 65

Team Standings

1. Linn-Mar 326, 2. Iowa City High 341, 3. Iowa City West 344, 4. Prairie 351, 5. Kennedy 352, 6. Xavier 360, 7. Jefferson 373, 8. Washington 389, 9. Marion 391.

Top 10 Individuals

1. Megan Furnish, Jefferson, 72
2. M.J. Kamin, Washington, 74
3. Ali Lindo, Kennedy, 75
4. Rachel Stewart, Iowa City High, 80
Julie Pople, Linn-Mar, 80
6. Olivia Ewing, Iowa City West , 81
7. C.J. Davis, Linn-Mar, 82
Rachel Thrune, Linn-Mar, 82
Katie Harding, Linn-Mar, 82
10. Madyson Boardman, Iowa City West 83

LINN-MAR (326): Julie Pople 80, C.J. Davis 82, Rachel Thrune 82, Katie Harding 82, Emma Lorenz 84, Danielle Toy 88.

PRAIRIE (351): Emily Perrin 84, Kerstin Flugum 85, Konnor Griffith 88, Alyssa Beisker 94, Jess Boldt 98, Jenna Niccolls 100.

KENNEDY (352): Ali Lindo 75, Sadie Schultz 91, Hannah Harberts 93, Raemi Chavez 93, Amanda Wiedemeier 104, Breanna Osterkamp 104.

XAVIER (360): Grace Winker 86, Taylor Wertzberger 88, Morgan DeLong 92, Hailey Sojka 94, Lisa Olberding 94, Kara Zwanziger 94.

JEFFERSON (373): Megan Furnish 72, Marissa Fehlhafer 102, Megan Kibby 103, Emily Aukes 96, Sammy Seeman 107, Sarah Tortora 114.

WASHINGTON (389): M.J. Kamin 74, Kandis O'Donnell 102, Elizaberth Stanczyk 103, Sophia Ochs 110, Katherine Wohlers 11, Hannah Bott 121.

MARION (391): Ashley Reed 88, Taylor Wade 91, Heather McGuire 105, Ashley Ohl 107, Kaitie Connelly 115, Haley Shaffer 128.

 

Washington - Girls Golf

Kamin shoots 40 at Brown Deer

CORALVILLE -- MJ Kamin shot a 40 to earn medalist honiors Tuesday in the Iowa City West triangular girls golf meet at Brown Deer.

Dubuque Senior won with a 190. Iowa City West had 200 and Washington 224.

Teams -- 1. Dubuque Senior 190, 2. Iowa City West 200, CR Washington 224

Medalist -- MJ Kamin (CRW) 40

WASHINGTON (224): MJ Kamin 40, Kandis O'Donnell 51, Sophia Ochs 65, Katherine Wohlers 68

IOWA CITY WEST (200): Olivia Ewing 46, Tiffany Danger 48, Sarah Hellem 53, Allye Boardman 53

DUBUQUE SENIOR (190): CC Belmont 44, Jordyn Engelken 45, Molly Timmerman 46, Madi Davis 55

   
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