Waukon girls golf team wraps up regular season with lone home meet


Focus on the flight ... Waukon girls golf senior Carley Sweeney watches her shot in the Indians’ Monday, April 30 home dual with Oelwein. Sweeney shot a 52 to help the Indians to a 215 team score, with Oelwein not having enough golfers to formulate a team score. Standard photo by Joe Moses.

In what turned out to be its only meet of the week and its only home meet of the season, the Waukon girls golf team ended up not having a full team to compete against anyway as a depleted Oelwein squad came to Waukon with just three golfers Monday, April 30 and had to forfeit to the Indians’ team total of 215 strokes. The Tribe’s other meet of the week, a Tuesday, May 1 meet at South Winneshiek was postponed to Thursday, May 3 before finally being canceled altogether after another round of stormy weather rolled through the area.

“This was our only home meet,” Waukon girls golf coach Kathy McMillan said. “Waukon plays long anyway and the high winds made it more challenging. I was pleased with the results. I’m finding more team members are coming down in score and that is a positive sign for next year. Our season has been so short, making practicing different parts of the game and just playing outside tough. The team is working hard for me and that’s good to see as we start next Monday with our tournament series.”

The Lady Indians were next scheduled to begin tournament play with the Monday, May 7 Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament played at Crestwood. The golf Tribe will then prepare for its Class 2A Regional First Round Tournament Monday, May 14 hosted by North Fayette Valley at Clermont, with further postseason tournament details printed elsewhere in the print edition and e-edition of The Standard.

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