Panthers Win Home Invitational

The Concordia High School Girls Golf team hosted its home invitational on Tuesday, September 2nd, at the Concordia Country Club. With 6 schools from North Central Kansas in attendance, the Panthers earned their first team victory of the season in just their second tournament, and Junior Mya Niehues claimed her first individual title of the year.

Concordia started the season at the 4A State Golf Preview at the Carey Park Golf Course in Hutchinson, a strong first showing for CHS, but as they say in Kansas, "there's no place like home". The Concordia Country Club features a 9-hole course that the varsity players played twice for the 18-hole tournament. The par was set at 68 for a perfect weather day.

Below are the team standings:

1     Concordia - Varsity    365
2    Rock Creek - Varsity    375
3    Marysville - Varsity    426
4    Wamego - Varsity    444
5    Seneca - Varsity    472
6    Clay Center only played 9 holes, so scores are unavailable.

"I realize that Carey Park and Concordia Golf and Wellness are two very different courses, but they each present their own unique challenges, too," Head Girls Golf Coach Gene Rundus said. "I was very pleased to see our team score go from 402 to 365. With that score, we were able to hold off a good Rock Creek team by ten strokes and win the tournament."

Below are the top 10 individual performances as well as the individual Panther performances:

1 Mya Niehues                Concordia       73    +5
2 Makenna Wallace      Rock Creek    89    +21
T3 Olivia Duever            Marysville       92    +24
T3 Jovi Griffith                Rock Creek    92    +24
5    Preslee Marsh          Concordia       93    +25
6    Reagan French        Rock Creek    96    +28
7    Alli Louquet              Rock Creek    98    +30
T8    Jordyn Schneider Rock Creek    99    +31
T8    Anna Widen           Concordia      99    +31
10    Maddie Bowers      Concordia    100    +32
16    Bella Stuber            Concordia      113    +45
26   Elora Henderson    Concordia      121    +53
28    Abby Herman        Concordia      122    +54
33    Marlie Johnson      Concordia     136    +68

"The girls had a great day today," Rundus said. "We were able to have all of them participate, whether it was 18 holes, 9 holes individually, or 9 holes as a scramble with a partner."

Concordia will now travel to the Salina Municipal Golf Course on Tuesday, September 9th, for the Salina Central Invite. Tee off is set for 2 pm.

"All the girls had some really nice shots today, and even when things weren't going as planned, they really hung in there and made it a successful day," Rundus said.

To see the full results from the Concordia Invite, click here.