They're back on the course for the second and final round of the KHSAA boys' golf tournament at Bowling Green Country Club. Not all of them, though. Heath's Chad Behbehani and the other golfers who scored nine or more strokes over par in yesterday's first round were cut. As the 64th finisher in the 64-player-field First Region boys' tournament of 1986, let me say that I am very impressed with anyone who simply got himself to the state tournament. I hope you got to enjoy being out of school and visiting Bowling Green, and I hope you got to stay two nights in a hotel with good cable.
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McCracken County Education Association is reportedly no longer negotiating with the local teachers union.
There's the time the river caught on fire in Cleveland, and now there's the time the water plant caught on fire in Crofton.
Call this a comeback, too--Boy Lincoln is back in Hodgenville!
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No word yet on the condition of local Coke machines.
Less than three months until Christmas!
RIP, Marthella Mayhall, multi-dimensional Harlan High School band star.
Individual Leaderboard at 12:18 PM CDT:
ReplyDelete1. N. Thompson (St. Mary): Even (21 holes)
2. S. Stallings (St. X): +1 (27)
T3. B. Hamilton (Ryle): +2 (27)
T3. F.A. Meyer (W. Jessamine): +2 (24)
T3. H. Collins (Lex. Christian): +2 (21)
6. L. Hogge (Bath Co.): +3 (27)
On the team leaderboard, Lexington Christian is +20, with its players on holes 3-6. St. Mary is +26, and playing the same holes. The third-place team (West Jessamine) is 13 shots behind St. Mary. So it is, at best, a two-team race.
ReplyDeleteNick Thompson of Paducah Saint Mary's is 4-over for the day (and the tournament), and he's dropped to fifth on the leaderboard.
ReplyDeleteLeaders Stephen Stallings of Louisville Saint Xavier and Fred Allen Meyer of Nicholasville West Jessamine are both 2-over for the tournament. But Stallings has recorded 12 holes today, and Meyer, only six.
Third place, 3-over is shared by Logan Hogge of Bath County and Blake Hamilton of Union Ryle, and both golfers have recorded 12 holes of scores. Hogge's even-par for the day is one of three even-or-better rounds in progress. Calloway County's Daniel Harper has shot 2-under over his first 15 holes today, bringing him to 6-over and 10th place for the tournament.
Leaders in the clubhouse: Calloway's Harper and Franklin-Simpson's Nick Fuqua, at 6-over 150 for the tournament. They are tied for ninth and four strokes back of co-leaders Stallings of St. X and Meyer of Wess Jess on the leaderboard. None of the eight golfers in front of Harper and Fuqua has recorded more than 12 holes of scores.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty good statement, and a good indicator of why McConnell is difficult to deal with in these inside-the-Beltway struggles. Few offices on Capitol Hill could put out such a strong statement in such a timely manner.
ReplyDeleteYesterday's early leader, Elizabethtown freshman Kyle Jury, is off the course with a pair of 6-over rounds of 78 strokes each. He's tied for 31st overall at the moment.
ReplyDeleteIndividual Leaderboard at 1:14 PM CDT:
ReplyDeleteT1. S. Stallings (St. X): +2 (30 holes)
T1. F.A. Meyer (W. Jessamine): +2 (27)
T3. B. Hamilton (Ryle): +3 (30)
T3. L. Hogge (Bath Co.): +3 (30)
5. N. Thompson (St. Mary): +4 (27)
Thompson bogeyed holes 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. That's why he's fallen back.
I thought Sen. McConnell's statement (which I had initially posted here, in the wrong string of comments, and subsequently bumped over to where it belonged) was excellent.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, St. Mary has taken the lead in the team competition. The Vikings are 31 over, and Lexington Christian is now 33 over. Both teams are on holes 9-12.
ReplyDeleteMost folks on the Hill rely too much on rhetoric, because it's easier to come up with rhetoric than with facts. McConnell doesn't make that mistake; he realizes that facts are more persuasive than rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteThree more holes in the books for St. X's Stallings, and he remains at 2-over for the tournament. He remains tied for the tournament lead with West Jess's Meyer, who has recorded nine holes of scores today.
ReplyDeleteF-S's Fuqua and Calloway's Harper have inched up to eighth, but their hopes of getting into a playoff are mighty thin. Four of the seven players ahead of them on the leaderboard are down to three outstanding holes of scores each.
ReplyDeleteT1. Stephen Stallings, Louisville Saint Xavier, +2 (15 holes played today)
ReplyDeleteT1. Fred Allen Meyer, Nicholasville West Jessamine, +2 (9)
3. Blake Hamilton, Union Ryle, +3 (15)
T4. Tyler McDaniel, Clay County, +4 (15)
T4. Nick Thompson, Paducah Saint Mary's, +4 (9)
T6. Matthew Mahle, Lexington Catholic, +5 (15)
T6. Hager Collins, Lexington Christian, +5 (9)
T8. Nick Fuqua, Franklin-Simpson, +6 (18)
T8. Daniel Harper, Calloway County, +6 (18)
No one further down the list appears poised to charge into contention. I think your state champion is one of these fellows.
West Jess's Meyer has dropped another stroke to par, leaving Stallings--with only three to play--alone in the state-tournament lead.
ReplyDelete1. Stallings, St. X, +2 (15)
T2. Hamilton, Ryle, +3 (15)
T2. Meyer, West Jess, +3 (12)
There should be some type of tournament, game, election, something to follow every day.
ReplyDeleteSwing for the pins, boys, because Stephen Stallings isn't coming back to you. St. X's Stallings is off the course and alone in the lead, with a 2-over 146 for the tournament.
ReplyDeleteRyle's Hamilton is also done, but he dropped two strokes in his final three holes and closes the tournament at 5-over 149.
T1. Stephen Stallings, Louisville Saint Xavier, +2 (18 holes played today)
ReplyDeleteT2. Fred Allen Meyer, Nicholasville West Jessamine, +3 (12)
T3. Tyler McDaniel, Clay County, +4 (15)
T3. Nick Thompson, Paducah Saint Mary's, +4 (9)
T5. Blake Hamilton, Union Ryle, +5 (18)
T5. Matthew Mahle, Lexington Catholic, +5 (15)
T5. Hager Collins, Lexington Christian, +5 (9)
T8. Nick Fuqua, Franklin-Simpson, +6 (18)
T8. Daniel Harper, Calloway County, +6 (18)
Individual Leaderboard at 1:59 PM CDT:
ReplyDelete1. S. Stallings (St. X): +2 (36 holes)
2. F.A. Meyer (W. Jessamine): +3 (30)
T3. T. McDaniel (Clay Co.): +4 (33)
T3. N. Thompson (St. Mary): +4 (27)
Tyler McDaniel is a freshman. Fred Allen Meyer is a sophomore.
Stallings Jr. is a junior.
ReplyDeleteSt. Mary now has an 8-shot lead in the Team competition. The Vikings are 32 over, while second-place Lexington Christian is 40 over. Both teams are on holes 9-12.
ReplyDeleteHere is an amazing stat: Nick Thompson, who is in fourth place in the whole tournament, is tied for fourth place among the St. Mary team in today's play -- three Vikings are doing better than Thompson's 4 over for the day.
McDaniel and Meyer both finished in the 2010 top 5. Stallings was not in the tournament.
ReplyDeleteFred Allen Mayer, who teed off on number 10 and who is therefore finishing on the front nine, birdied holes 4 and 5 to move to 1 over, which put him briefly in the lead. But he bogeyed the sixth hole to fall back into a tie with Stallings with three holes to go.
ReplyDeleteI meant Fred Allen Meyer -- I keep forgetting how to spell his name.
ReplyDeleteNICHOLASVILLE IN THE HOUSE ... West Jess's Meyer goes birdie, birdie, bogey on his three most recent holes, and that pulls him into a tie with St. X's Stallings at 2-over for the tournament. Meyer has three holes to play.
ReplyDeleteI like to think that Fred Allen has been following tournament coverage on his HP iPhone app and started playing more aggressively at 1:58 p.m. Central, when I suggested, "Swing for the pins, boys."
ReplyDeleteFollowing this tournament reminds me of pictures like these, in which folks gathered around radios in public places to follow what was going on in the World Series. The Park City Daily News had images like that of folks gathered around the newspaper office in Bowling Green from the 1930s and '40s.
ReplyDeleteThe JJ is getting juiced about F.A. Meyer!
ReplyDeleteNow it's #LouCathSports that is getting excited.
ReplyDeleteAt Facebook, LouisvilleCatholicSports.com reports, "Meyer, despite a valiant effort, falters on 18 and it appears that Stallings will hang on as state champion. There are two players that are there strokes back with three to play, but those efforts would have to be rather miraculous to take away Stallings' crown."
ReplyDeleteThose two players would be Hager Collins of Lexington Christian and Nick Thompson of Paducah Saint Mary's ...
ReplyDeletePer the St. Mary Vikings golf team's web site: "We are the 2005 Kentucky State Champions, 2006 Kentucky State runner up, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,2010 and 2011 Class A regional champions, 2007,2009 and 2011 Class A state Champions. 2010 4th place at KHSAA tourney. Winner of the 2011 KY Cup, 2nd at 2011 South Warren Invitational and 3rd at 2011 KIT."
ReplyDeleteWhat a disaster! St. Mary's has blown its lead. The Vikings are now 39 over, while Louisville Christian is now 37 over. Both teams are on holes 15-18.
ReplyDeleteFred Allen Meyer is going to have a long trip back to Nicholasville. With five holes to go, he was coming off of back-to-back birdies, and he led the state tournament by one shot. He then finished bogey-bogey-par-bogey to lose by two shots. It reminds me of how I blew our match against Boyle County in the Kentucky version of College Bowl.
ReplyDeleteOh, my! St. Mary and Louisville Christian are now tied at 38 over par. Nick Thompson is the only player left on the course for St. Mary. Hager Collins (who is 2 over for the day) is the only player still on the course for Louisville Christian.
ReplyDeleteFinal Leaderboard:
ReplyDelete1. S. Stallings (St. X): +2 (72+74=146)
2. F.A. Meyer (W. Jessamine): +4 (73+75=148)
T3. H. Collins (Lou. Christian): +5 (75+74=149)
T3. B. Hamilton (Ryle): +5 (73+76=149)
T5. N. Fuqua (Franklin-Simpson): +6 (76+74=150)
T5. D. Harper (Calloway Co.): +6 (80+70=150)
T5. M. Mahle (Lex. Catholic): +6 (75+75=150)
T5. T. McDaniel (Clay Co.): +6 (76+74=150)
Congratulations, steady Stephen Stallings of St. X!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, our sympathy goes out to Nick Thompson of St. Mary, who shot a 72 yesterday but a 79 today. He also bogeyed three of the last four holes. So St. Mary finished with a two-day score of 616 -- 40 over par. That left them two shots behind Louisville Christian, who shot 614 (38 over par). So the state title goes to Louisville Christian. St. Mary did finish 10 shots ahead of Louisville St. X, the third-place team.
ReplyDeleteNow we await the arrival of Miss Emma Talley at the Girls' Tournament.
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