Golfers place second at Hays Invitational
Junior Macie Mayo blasts her way out of a sand trap on the fourth green during the Hays Invitational Sept. 3. Hays took second.
Sophomore Taylor Deboer and junior Lexie Schaben both came away with top 10 finishes to help lead Hays to a second-place team finish at the Hays Invitational on Sept. 3 at Smoky Hills Country Club.
Deboer finished third with a nine-hole total of 46, while Schaben ended up in eighth with a 51. The low round of the day came from Abbi Shaddix of Garden City who carded a 34.
As a team, Hays finished with a total of 206, well behind first-place finisher Garden City with 177. Dodge City was 10 strokes behind in third place with a 216, followed by Great Bend and Salina Central, both with a 222.
Other team scores were Hutchinson, 224; Salina South, 243; TMP-Marian, 248; and Liberal, 248.
Individually for Hays, freshman Katie Brungardt ended with a 54, followed by junior Elissa Jensen with a 55. Freshman Rhian Patterson and junior Macie Mayo finished with a 60 and 61, respectively.
The next action for the golfers will be at Salina Central on Sept. 10
