LA CYGNE — The Iola High golf team took home first place as a team at the Pioneer League Tournament on Thursday afternoon at Prairie View.
Santa Fe Trail came in second place, Anderson County took third place, Wellsville placed fourth and Burlington got fifth place while Prairie View rounded out the pack in sixth place. The Mustangs had three golfers place in the top-five.
Xander Sellman, Chris Holloway and Brennen Coffield finished in third, fourth and fifth place after shooting totals of 82, 83 and 84, respectively.
“Our mentality throughout the year is we start to get more aggressive and our game gets better later on,” said Iola junior golfer Chris Holloway. “As we head into the final two weeks of the season, a lot of us are starting to get dialed in and the scores we put up really showed us who we are as a team. We all played aggressively and kept our scores around the same.”
Baron Folk came in eighth place with an 87.
Ethan Harris tied for 16th place with a 101.
“They push each other to do a little bit better each time,” Iola head coach Jeremy Sellman said. “Golf is such a funny game, you can have it today and lose it tomorrow. I couldn’t be more proud of them because putting Pioneer League champs on the wall, no matter what they do the rest of their lives, nobody can take that away from them.”
Parker Andres finished in 27th place with a 118.
Santa Fe Trail’s Lane Workman came in first place with a 75 while Anderson County’s Lane Richards finished in second place with a 76.
“As a team we won but we had Lane Workman who went out and shot three-under until the break of the lightning,” said Iola junior golfer Xander Sellman. “The competition was pretty hard. No matter what happens on one hole, we can always get it back.”
“I like to have fun but we are out here to win,” added Holloway. “We’re going to put all we have into it and we showed it yesterday. We can show it again over the next two weeks.”
Iola tees off in Chanute on Monday at 3 p.m.
