Crusaders advance in district golf

WASHINGTON – The Fort Madison Bloodhounds cooled off at the wrong time racking up a 362 at IHSAA Class 3A Sectional golf action at Washington Golf and Country Club.
Cole Quittem and Rowan Benda both carded 85s to lead the Bloodhounds. Brady Wade shot a 90 followed by Colton Boyer with a 102 for the Hounds' scoring golfers.
Graeme Meredith shot a 120 and Connor Cale came in with a 132 for Fort Madison.
The top three teams qualify for districts on Monday, but the Hounds finished 6th ending their season.
Solon won the event with a 309 followed by Washington’s 316, West Liberty’s 319, Burlington Notre Dame with a 333, and Clear Creek-Amana at 345. Mt. Pleasant was 7th with a 365 and Keokuk rounded out the event with a 385. Solon’s Isaiah Zoske was medalist with a 72.

HTC boys advance out of WMU Sectional
WINFIELD – The Holy Trinity Catholic boys shot a 387, good enough for third place at the Class 1A Sectionals at Winfield-Mt.Union Wednesday.
The Crusaders had three golfers under 100 led by Max Kruse’s 93 to edge New London by 3 strokes. HTC will advance to the district meet at Heritage Oaks in Wapello on Monday.
Brock Scheetz and Nathan Box both carded a 97 and Blake Mohrfeld had a 100 to make up the scoring golfers for Holy Trinity.
Luke Hellige shot a 103 and Jameson Denning carded a 113.
Winfield won the event with a 336 followed by Wapello’s 350. Winfield’s Justin Knipfer was medalist with a 78. Runner-up was Crew Peters with an 86.

Donnellson’s Son part of winning LCAA team
MIDDLETOWN - The team of David Son (Donnellson) and Rob FT Needham (Kirksville, MO) pitched spinner baits and wacky rigged worms to finish First Place in the LCAA’s OPEN Bass Tournament #1 at Lake Geode in Des Moines County.  A sunny day with 10mph NW winds found the fish with a bit of lockjaw as numbers and weights were conservative, to say the least.  However, their game plan paid off with a limit of five bass scaling 13.5 lbs. and also the Big Fish Award with a 3.66 lb. largemouth bass. 
Jeff Eaves (Ft. Madison) and Darren Skow (Argyle) teamed up to pound the water for the eight-hour tournament and finished Second Place, bagging a limit of five fish weighing 12.82 lbs.  The Third Place finish belonged to the team of Tim Miller and Darren Skow as they tipped the scales at 10.74 lbs. 
A total of 30 anglers participated in the first tournament of three, sponsored by the Lake Cooper Angler Association.  These three Open Tournaments are open to the public scheduled for this summer.  Aside from a very generous payback system, anglers will earn accumulated points for standings.  At the end of the last tournament, the team with the most accumulated points will be presented the “LCAA Open Champions” trophy.