Page 16 - 2016-17 Girls Golf State Finals Program

2015 Tournament in Review

Evansville North Repeats as Team Champion,
Lake Central’s Miestowski wins Individual Championship

Top-ranked Evansville North successfully repeated as on the front nine of Saturday’s final round to win the state
state champion and Lake Central’s Alexis Miestowski championship. She shot -3 for 69 in the second round to
captured medalist honors during the 43rd Annual IHSAA finish the tournament with a one-over 145 (76-69). She
Girls Golf State Finals at Prairie View Golf Club in became the first state golf medalist in her school’s history
Carmel. - girls or boys. The sophomore began the day one stroke
back and tied for second place with three others behind
The defending state champion Huskies, coached by Ken Lafayette Central Catholic’s Morgan Brown (75). Brown
Wempe, finished at 651 (332-319) and were led by sopho- finished at 156 (75-81) for sixth place.
more Hadley Walts who finished tied for second overall
at 151 (79-72). Emma Kieffer, the team’s only senior, Defending champion Cherise Otter, a senior from Bloom-
finished fourth overall at 153 (76-77). Junior Katelyn Le ington South, finished tied as the runner-up with Evansville
ended at 168 (82-86) and junior Brittany Skinner finished North’s Walts at 151 (76-75). After Kieffer in fourth place,
with 167 (95-84). Hannah Davis and Katelyn Skinner Kiley Swisher, a senior from Seeger, rounded out the top
split rounds the last two days also and shot 95 and 98, five at 155 (76-79).
respectively, for the winners.
Of special note, Fishers sophomore Morgan Lewis used a
It was the school’s second state title in girls golf and fourth pitching wedge to score a hole-in-one on the par-3, 12th
in any sport. hole from 109 yards away during the second round. It was
the first ace ever recorded in girls golf state finals history.
Second-ranked Westfield finished as the runner-up, enjoy- She completed the weekend tied for 21st overall with a 166
ing its best finish ever after a 677 (350-327). Chesterton (84-82).
placed third, its highest finish ever, with a 692 (353-339).
Evansville Memorial ended in fourth place at 699 (354- Both days of the tournament were played under dreary,
345) and Indianapolis Cathedral took fifth with 700 (356- overcast skies with gusty winds and temps in the mid-to-
344). Both tied their school’s best state finals placement. high 40s. Rain also fell at times during Saturday’s second
round.
Miestowski birdied six holes this weekend including four

2015 Individual Medalists: Front Row (Left to Right): Alexis Miestowski (1st), Kiley Swisher (5th), Emma Kieffer (4th),
Hadley Watts (T-2nd), Cherise Otter (T-2nd); Second Row: Cailyn Henderson (10th), Kayla Benge (T-8th). Reece Malapit (T-8th),
Emma Fisher (7th), Morgan Brown (6th)

16 IHSAA - Pure Spirit. Pure Sport. Pure INDIANA!