OSWEGO, Kan. — The Pittsburg girls golf team opened their season Tuesday with a team victory and four individual top-10 finishers in the nine-hole LCHS Invitational.
Pittsburg finished collectively with a four-player total of 196, eight strokes better than both Chanute and Columbus, on a sunny and a little warm day at the Oswego Golf Course.
Alyssa Cosens, Jacqueline Hall and Haylee Graham finished in the third through fifth spots, as Cosens shot 46, Hall 49 and Graham 50.
Ava Steier completed the Pittsburg top-10 quartet and placed eighth at 51. Macy Farrington carded a 64 to finish 29th and Faith Leonard shot 71 to finish 34th.
Girard, one of only two schools not from the Southeast Kansas League, finished sixth at 251.
Girard’s Karlyn Fisher cracked the top-10 with her 50 to earn her seventh. Ariana Ramirez finished 25th at 61, Hanna Bailey 28th at 64 and Jordyn Oplotnik 37th at 76.
Mallory Thompson, who helped Columbus qualify for the state tournament last season, earned top individual honors with a 43.
Chanute’s Delaney Hastings took second at 45, Columbus’ Reese Grundy sixth at 50, Chanute’s Emma Waltermire ninth at 52 and Coffeyville’s Jessica Zimmerman 10th at 52.
LCHS INVITATIONAL
At Oswego Golf Course
Par-36
PITTSBURG (196) — Alyssa Cosens 46, Jacqueline Hall 49, Haylee Graham 50, Ava Steier 51, Macy Farrington 64, Faith Leonard 71
CHANUTE (204) — Delaney Hastings 45, Emma Waltermire 52, Rainey Carter 53, Layla Reinecke 54, Madi Kepley 55
COLUMBUS (204) — Mallory Thompson 43, Reese Grundy 50, Amory Neely 55, Anna Head 56, Natalie Wary 56
COFFEYVILLE (230) — Jessica Zimmerman 52, Avery Sells 55, Chloe Mund 60, Aubrey Battaglear 63
FORT SCOTT (233) — Luci Dunkeson 53, Alyssa Hunt 56, Emma Martin 56, Riley Findley 66, Lillian Jackson 68
GIRARD (251) — Karlyn Fisher 50, Ariana Ramirez 61, Hanna Bailey 64, Jordyn Oplotnik 76
LABETTE COUNTY (258) — Kylie Habiger 56, Kacey Reed 63, Payton Sanders 68, Lizzie Ludwig 71, Lexi Howard 77, Ava Tierney 80
INDEPENDENCE (283) — Mossie O’Brien 59, Ashtyn Oaken 64, Dellany Torres 88, Ellie Perry 91
PARSONS — Maddison Shepard 58
