Monday, September 24th, 2018
Wildcats, Redskins win MAC titles
Minster golfers sweep the conference's Golfer of the Year accolades
By Daily Standard Staff
Photo by Gary R. Rasberry/The Daily Standard
Minster's Grant Voisard finished runner-up in the MAC boys' golf tournament and earned Boys' Golfer of the Year honors.
By COLIN FOSTER and GARY R. RASBERRY
sports@dailystandard.com
The Minster boys and St. Henry girls completed their clean sweep of the Midwest Athletic Conference golf titles by winning their respective tournaments on Saturday.
At Arrowhead Golf Course, the Minster boys dominated their home course with a blistering round of 316, 26 strokes ahead of runner-up St. Henry and 41 strokes better than third-place Delphos St. John's.
The girls' tournament was held at the Mercer County Elks. St. Henry edged Versailles 393-397 to win the title trophy after having finished as regular season champs with an unbeaten mark in league play.
BOYS
The 316 was a season-best score for Minster, which went 9-0 in regular season league matches.
"It's a real testament to the work they put in during the offseason," said Jim Stubbs, who along with co-coach Lyle Sanvido earn Coach of the Year honors for guiding the Wildcats to the title. "I've got four juniors on the team and they all start. Three of them have played since they were freshmen."
After St. Henry and St. John's, Versailles (360) was fourth and Fort Recovery (380) rounded out the top five. The second five were New Knoxville (389), Marion Local (394), Parkway (397), Coldwater (404) and New Knoxville (416).
For the Minster boys, their biggest competitions was who would take the honors each match this season.
All six Wildcats who played on the tournament team finished in the top 20 in the season-long points chase towards Golfer of the Year honors.
In the end, Grant Voisard earned enough points to earn the conference's top honor after Saturday's 78.
"It's pretty cool," Voisard said. "I wasn't really expecting it. It's a lot cooler being MAC champions as a team."
While Voisard was the overall top player, teammate Grant Koenig, who golfed in the No. 4 spot, shot a 4-over 76 on his home course to take tournament medalist honors.
"We're out here all summer long practicing. It's like we live here," Koenig said. "It went really good."
Joseph Magoto, who shot an 80 to finish fourth behind St. Henry's Reed Koesters (79), was third in the Golfer of the Year points standings. Koenig was 10th with Ethan Lehmkuhl (82 on Saturday) taking 11th. Logan Lazier (86) was 18th in points while Jacob Wismsman (89) finished 20th in the points.
The rest of the tournament top 10 (ties included) were St. Henry's Jack Romer (82), St. John's Grant Csukker and Versailles' Connor VanSkyock (84), Fort Recovery's Grant Knapke and Carson Rammel and Lazier (86).
GIRLS
St. Henry coach Gary Broering had been waiting a long time for an MAC championship.
The wait ended on Saturday.
The Redskins held off Versailles 393-397 to secure their second MAC title in program history.
"I'm just thrilled because it's something I've wanted since I've been coaching, and we've actually been second three different times and third once," Broering said. "I thought maybe a couple of times that we'd end up being tied, but we didn't get there. But we finally got there and we won. It's an exciting feeling. It give the girls a lot of confidence going into sectionals and hopefully on down the line."
St. Henry had two first team All-MAC golfers in Ellen Naumann and Claire Clune, who finished Saturday with rounds of 94 and 100 respectively. The team also had two second-team honorees in Alana Siefring and Elizabeth Rockwell. Siefring shot a 99 in the tournament and Rockwell added a 107. St. Henry's Abby Gast was on the honorable mention team after shooting a 100 on Saturday. Calli Hemmelgarn added a 114.
New Bremen finished third at the tournament with a score of 400. Rounding out the standings were Coldwater and Parkway (tied with 414), Fort Recovery (441), Minster (442), St. John's (466) and Marion Local (490).
Minster's Taylor Homan was tournament medalist with an 87 and earned MAC Golfer of the Year honors. New Bremen's Sarah Parker (90) and Amy Balster (92) took silver and bronze at the tournament.
Other top finishers included St. Henry's Naumann (94), Parkway's Mecaylah Hesse (95), Versailles' Morgan Heitkamp (97), Coldwater's Emma Eckstein (97), Versailles' Morgan Barlage (98) and Versailles' Maddie Durham, Fort Recovery's Jayln Bruns and St. Henry's Siefring, all of whom tallied scores of 99.
All-MAC Golf Teams:
The 2018 All-Midwest Athletic Conference Boys' and Girls' Golf Teams based on final points accumulated through season dual matches and the conference championships.
BOYS
Golfer of the Year: Grant Voisard (Minster).
First Team
Grant Voisard (Minster), Jack Romer (St. Henry), Joseph Magoto (Minster), Conner VanSkyock (Versailles), Adam Gerker (St. John's), Mason Baxter (Parkway), Grant Knapke (Fort Recovery), Grant Csukker (St. John's), Reed Koesters (St. Henry), Grant Koenig (Minster), Ethan Lehmkuhl (Minster), Rylee Deitsch (St. Henry).
Second Team
Sam Aspach (New Knoxville), Cole Hemmelgarn (New Bremen), Jared Lucas (St. John's), Logan Lazier (Minster), Alex Wourms (Coldwater), Carson Rammel (Fort Recovery), Lucas Grieshop (St. Henry), Jacob Wissman (Minster), Ray Newton (New Knoxville).
Honorable Mention
Ethan Kremer (Versailles), Alex Keiser (Versailles), Tim Knapschaefer (Marion Local), Andrew Mescher (St. Henry), Seth Kelch (Marion Local), Austin Pleiman (Versailles), Will Eversole (Versailles), Damon Moeller (Marion Local).
GIRLS
Player of the Year: Taylor Homan (Minster).
First Team
Taylor Homan (Minster), Ellen Naumann (St. Henry), Sarah Parker (New Bremen), Amy Balster (New Bremen), Haylee Stukey (Parkway), Mecaylah Hesse (Parkway), Morgan Barlage (Versailles), Emma Eckstein (Coldwater), Jalyn Bruns (Fort Recovery), Claire Clune (St. Henry)
Second Team
Morgan Heitkamp (Versailles), Maddie Durham (Versailles), Caylie Hall (New Bremen), Layne Voisard (Minster), Alana Siefring (St. Henry), Elizabeth Rockwell (St. Henry), Sarah Diller (Coldwater), Alexa Jay (Versailles).
Honorable Mention
Abby Gast (St. Henry), Autumn Ellis (Parkway), Laney Finke (Coldwater), Lexi Wright (Coldwater), Cassidy Werts (St. John's), Payton Kunk (Coldwater), Lauren Henderson (Parkway), Devin Jutte (Fort Recovery).
Photo by Colin Foster/The Daily Standard
Minster's Taylor Homan sinks a putt during Saturday's MAC tournament at the Mercer County Elks. Homan was tournament medalist and won MAC Girls' Golfer of the Year.
Photo by Colin Foster/The Daily Standard
Ellen Naumann led the way for MAC champion St. Henry on Saturday with a fourth-place finish. The sophomore earned first team All-MAC honors.
Photo by Gary R. Rasberry/The Daily Standard
St. Henry's Jack Romer follows through with a shot during the MAC boys' golf tournament at Arrowhead.
Photo by Colin Foster/The Daily Standard
New Bremen's Amy Balster was a first team All-MAC honoree.
