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2012 Tournament in Review

Stone Helps Rally Evansville Harrison to its First Boys Golf State

Championship
With senior Sean Stone leading the way and taking
the individual title, third-ranked Evansville Harrison edged
two-time defending champion and No. 2 Brebeuf Jesuit by
three strokes to win its first boys team title.

It was just the second state championship of any
kind for Evansville Harrison, which was coached by Josh
Dahmer. The school’s last title came in girls golf in 1989.
Harrison began the final round tied for seventh place
and eight strokes back (311). Thanks in part to Stone, who
birdied seven of his first nine holes of the day and stormed
into the individual lead for good, Harrison finished at
311-300-611, three shots better than Brebeuf Jesuit (305-

36 holes over the two days including five straight to begin
the second round. Meyer held a one-stroke lead over
classmate Michael Sharp of East Noble after the first day.
The No. 2 player on his team, Stone became the first
golf state champion from his school and just the third from
Evansville in the tournament’s 76 years. Robert Hamilton
of Evansville Reitz won the event in 1934 and Jerry McRae
of Evansville Mater Dei won in 1959.
309-614). Brebeuf had been looking for an unprecedented Other Harrison golfers, all seniors, included Alex Turner
third consecutive state championship. who tied for fifth (72-74-146), Tanner Mandel who tied for
28th (82-75-157), Jordan Wildt, who tied for 53rd (86-82-
Jasper, which was tied for seventh with Harrison after 168), and Mitchell Baker who ended 59th (86-100-86).
the first round, finished third (311-304-615) overall. Top-
ranked Columbus North which began the day in first place Indianapolis Cathedral’s Jon Williams finished third
struggled to a fourth place finish (303-315-618). oveall at an even par 71-73-144, Plainfield’s Rylan Porter
was fourth at 73-72-145. Defending state champion Tyler
The No. 2 player on his team, Stone finished 71-69-140 Ostrom of Warsaw who was attempting to become just the
edging Evansville Central sophomore Dylan Meyer with fourth repeat champion, finished tied for 14th with 72-80-
69-74-143 for the individual crown. He birdied 12 of the 152.
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