BV North and SM East golfers win league titles
.JPG "The top six finishers at the Eastern Kansas League golf tournament: (left to right) Tatum King, St. Thomas Aquinas, sixth; Nikki McCurdy, Blue Valley Southwest, fifth; Jamie Rickert, Blue Valley Southwest, fourth; Kaleigh Ashen, Blue Valley Northwest, third; Alex Larson, Blue Valley West, second; Jean Tyrrell, Blue Valley North; first.")
The Blue Valley North High School girls golf team won the Eastern Kansas League title behind a 4-stroke individual victory by Jean Tyrrell.
Tyrrell shot a 1-under par to win the third leg of the competition with a score of 71. Teammates Maddie Kroll added an 82, Cecilia Ryan shot an 83 and Kristin Larson had a 91, which were all personal bests.
As for the other top six performers in the EKL tournament, Alex Larson of Blue Valley West placed second, followed by Kaleigh Ashen of Blue Valley Northwest, Jamie Rickert and Nikki McCurdy of Blue Valley Southwest, and Tatum King of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The final scores were a compilation of results from the Blue Valley North Invitational, Lawrence Invitational and Blue Valley Southwest Invitational.
Lancers capture Sunflower League title
The Shawnee Mission East girls golf team cemented its Sunflower League title with a victory on Wednesday at the Olathe East Invitational at St. Andrews Golf Club.
Jessica Parker and Teagan Noblit led the way for SM East, while Haley Bell placed fourth and Riley Ricket finished 10th.
The Lancers won the three tournaments which comprised the Sunflower League tournament by 122 strokes. Olathe Northwest finished second.
Parker won the individual title and Lawrence Free State’s Emily Bermel placed second, followed by Noblit in third and Bell in fourth. SM South’s Rachel Larberg was fifth, followed by Olathe Northwest’s Chloe Kraus, SM Northwest’s Abby Radmanesh, SM East’s Marti Fromm, SM South’s Marti Collantes and Olathe South’s Claire Beeler.
Hawks take aim on stretch run
The Olathe East boys soccer team appears to be in a good position as it eyes the last two weeks of the season.
However, Hawks coach Terry Hair is cautious about getting too confident, given last year’s undefeated regular season run and subsequent loss in the Kansas Class 6A state semifinals.
“There’s an awful lot of parity this year in the 16 teams that are going to be trying to fight for four spots to go to the state quarters,” Hair said. “On any given night there is a good seven or eight of us that can beat up on each other.”
Entering Friday, the Hawks had just three more matches before starting regional competition.
“They are aware of how hard it is to win a league title and are also aware of how fragile winning can be when you go into the postseason,” Hair said.
The Hawks lost a lot of senior leadership from last year’s team, but have been able to rely on returning all-state defender Zac Marquess for leadership.
This story was originally published October 9, 2014 at 8:00 PM with the headline "BV North and SM East golfers win league titles."