Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Kansas 2nd, Lowell 3rd at four-state golf event

Missouri girls golfers won the Junior 4-State Championship and Kansas placed second at Otter Creek Golf Course in Ankeny, Iowa.

Missouri won the two-day junior golf event in late June with a team score of 601. Kansas followed with 614, while Nebraska and Iowa tied with totals of 621.

The Kansas team included Cassie Lowell of Concordia High, Brooke Thilges of Manhattan High, Taylor Fagan of Rossville High, Chelsea Nemeth of Halstead High and Alexa Osbourn of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Danielle Nemek of Nebraska picked up individual honors with a score of 141. Others in the top five were Caroline Rouse of Missouri, 142; Lowell, 147; Jessie Sindlinger of Iowa, 148; and Susan Kirshenman of Iowa, 150.

Lowell, who placed third at the Class 4A state tournament in 2009, graduated from Concordia this year. She will play golf for Northwest Missouri State.

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