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Sabetha & Nemaha Valley Golf Take 2nd & 3rd at State

By Mike Smith

05/22/2012

The Sabetha Bluejays and Nemaha Valley Raiders made the best of their performances at the 3A-state golf tournament in Goodland at Sugar Hills Country Club, yesterday. Both Sabetha and Nemaha Valley competed as teams and individual golfers at the state tournament.

Sabetha notched a second place out of 12 teams with a finish with a team score of 337, while their counterparts in Nemaha Valley finished right behind them in third place tally a team score of 347.

The top team finishes by the Bluejays and Raiders were led by two top ten performances of one individual from each one of their squads. It was Matt Manning of Sabetha that notched the best individual performance of any local area athlete in there, respective class in the state golf tournament, as he took home second place, after shooting a 77. Nemaha Valley's top ten performance was Trent Olberding who notched himself a ninth place finish after shooting an 82 at the tournament.

Plenty of other Bluejays and Raiders competed at the state tournament as they fielded each fielded teams. For the Bluejays the remaining individual golfers finished like so: Kyle Stallbaumer (11th place, shot an 82), Benji Stoller (21st place, shot an 85), Nolan Keim (57th place, shot a 93), Tyler Ulrich (70th place, shot a 97) and Kevan Herbster (93rd place, shot a 108).

For the Raiders the rest of Olberding's teammates finished like so individually: Zach Bradley (17th place, shot an 84), Caleb Meyer (33rd place, shot an 89), Michael Ohslen (52nd place, shot a 92), Justice McKernan (74th place, shot a 98) and Joe Haug (94th place, shot a 108).

Sabetha and Nemaha Valley were not the only local schools to send golfers to the 3A-state tournament as Maur-Hill Mount Academy and Horton had golfers participate in the state tournament. For the Junior Ravens of Maur-Hill their best individual performance can from Matt Kentzler who placed 15th after shooting an 84. His teammates Brock Hanf and Austin Lewman, also participated and placed 46th and 73rd, respectively after shooting 91 and 98 on the day. For the Chargers of Horton only one golfer was at state that being MaKennzi Knudson who finished 51st with a round of 92.