State golf roundup: Mason, Garden City girls and Sonora boys come away with gold

Paul Witwer, San Angelo Standard-Times

Multiple golf teams from West Texas finished the 2024 golf season on the medal stand as the season concluded for boys and girls in Austin on Tuesday.

Last week, the Sonora boys golf team took home the program's first state golf trophy after scoring a 626 after two days of competition. The Broncos finished nine strokes ahead of runner-up New Home, whom they beat in a sudden-death playoff elimination game in the regional tournament a week before.

Dylan Ford, the defending individual state champ, finished tied with Weston Fisher for sixth overall with 149, Jayden Wllborn scored 159, Juan Castillo had 169 and Raul Arrendo rounded out the state title with a 179.

"I was so proud of the kids," Sonora golf coach Mitch Kay said. "I was extremely happy for them. They set out to accomplish this goal, I'm not going to say the goal was to win (the state title), but they had the idea. They really wanted to go battle and it became obvious that we had the ability to go win it, so for them to see that through was awesome."

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Mason girls complete the three-peat

For the third straight year, the Mason girl's golf team captured the Class 2A state championship finishing the two-day tournament with a record-low final score of 637.

The team of Avery Burns, Ainsley Burns, Raelynn Leifeste, Bronwyn Underwood and Ruby Hills finished the first day with a 326, 42 strokes ahead of second place Crawford. The Cowgirls finished the second day with an improved 311, finishing the tournament 85 strokes ahead of second.

Ainsley Burns finished first overall with a two-day score of 149, while Avery Burns finished second with 151 after winning a playoff against Goldthwaite's Aubrey Heremesmeyer.

Garden City girls claim 1A title

The Lady Kats defended their state title on Tuesday at the Crystal Fall Golf Club in Austin on Tuesday. Rylee Wood led the way for Garden City claiming first after winning a scorecard playoff with a 165 total score.

The team of Rylee Wood, Keegan Batla, Briana Halfmann, Helen Marshall and Gracie Raney finished the tournament with a 757, 73 ahead of second-place Utopia.

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Team Results

Boys 1A

  1. Gail Borden County - 681

  2. Wildorado - 690

  3. Iraan - 697

  4. Earth Springlake - 698

  5. Westbrook - 709

  6. D'Hanis - 713

  7. Abbott - 723

  8. Robert Lee - 725

  9. Slidell - 734

  10. Rochelle - 735

  11. Chester - 745

  12. Graford - 830

Boys 2A

  1. Sonora - 626

  2. NewHome - 635

  3. Albany - 636

  4. Lindsay - 643

  5. Haskell - 657

  6. Sundown - 680

  7. Crawford - 690

  8. Schulenberg - 692

  9. San Saba - 708

  10. Grapeland - 729

  11. Ore City - 754

Class 3A girls

  1. Odessa Compass Academy - 677

  2. Corpus Christi London - 707

  3. Gunter - 724

  4. Maypearl - 727

  5. Wall - 751

  6. Cameron Yoe - 755

  7. Brock - 775

  8. Tatum - 795

  9. Callisburg - 810

  10. Vanderbilt Industrial - 817

  11. Columbus - 830

  12. Orangefield - 891

Class 2A girls

  1. Mason - 637

  2. Crawford - 722

  3. Wink - 750

  4. Tolar - 761

  5. Sonora - 770

  6. Shiner - 778

  7. Goldthwaite - 781

  8. Wellington - 840

  9. Quinlan Boles - 860

  10. Cisco - 870

  11. Bosqueville - 876

  12. Frankston - 896

Class 1A girls

  1. Garden City - 757

  2. Utopia - 830

  3. Crowell - 831

  4. Lenorah Grady - 853

  5. Veribest - 853

  6. Tilden McMullen County - 872

  7. Gail Gorden County - 884

  8. Rochelle - 909

  9. Throckmorton - 911

  10. Lamesa Klondike - 934

  11. D'Hanis - 954

  12. Sulphur Bluff - 1,003

This article originally appeared on San Angelo Standard-Times: UIl State golf roundup: See how West Texas Teams performed

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