Herriman freshman Ryker Lind and Lone Peak senior Preston Smithson rounded out the top five at 140. Knights junior Cooper Jones finished with a two-day total of 4-under 138 to finish second, one shot ahead of Fremont's Jack Wadsworth. Lone Peak freshman Kihei Akina shot back-to-back rounds of 3-under-par 68 to pull away for medalist honors and lead the Knights to their fourth-straight 6A state championship at Davis Park in Kaysville.Īkina carded four birdies with one bogey in Tuesday's final round, with two Lone Peak teammates nipping at his heels in the top five. (Photo: Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)ĦA: Freshman Akina leads Knights to 8th title in 9 years Lone Peak’s Kihei Akina, right, celebrates the win in the 6A boys state tournament with teammates at Davis Park Golf Course in Kaysville on Tuesday, Oct. Skyline 575, Spanish Fork 579, Woods Cross 599, Lehi 604, Olympus 610, Box Elder 621, Brighton 631, Highland 635, Salem Hills 635, Orem 642. 146 - Emmitt Harris, Olympus Jackson Shelley, Skyline Sean Lam, Skyline, Tyler Barlow, Woods Cross.141 - KJ Ofahengaue, Lehi Noah Taylor, Spanish Fork Peter Kim, Skyline."But then it stuck to within two feet and the rest is the rest." "It was just about falling well for the team. "That shot was incredible I just knew I needed to get it inside 20 feet and two-putt, and we could still get the victory," Thomas said. Thomas pulled a 60-degree loft out of his bag, plunked a shot to the middle of the soggy green and watched it roll within a few feet of the hole with a smile on his face. 15 and 16 and a clutch up-and-down out of a bunker on the par-5, 493-yard 18th hole to help the Eagles hold on. Kim connected on three-straight birdies on the 11th, 12th and 13th holes, and Thomas capped off a 1-under 35 on the back nine with back-to-back birdies on Nos. The Dons were gunning for their first team title since 1998, and pushed Skyline to the brink.
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Rhees is the first medalist from Spanish Fork since Blair Bingham shot 70 at Hobble Creek in 1995. "I read it pretty straight, and my putter was pretty hot." I played it off that and had a 10-footer.
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3), so I just decided to hit a full 4-iron with the backstop behind the pin. "I started off really well, and that kind of set the mood for the rest of the round," Rhees said. Jackson Rhees shot 11-under 133 to claim medalist honors, including a 7-under 65 on the second day highlighted by six birdies and an eagle on the par-5, 485-yard third hole. Kim and his teammates at Skyline took the team title while Rhees took the individual title. Woods Cross' Rex Poulsen, Skyline's Peter Kim and Spanish Fork's Jackson Rhees congratulate each other at the end of their second round in the 5A boys state golf tournament at The Oaks at Spanish Fork in Spanish Fork on Tuesday, Oct. We all had to play good this year - none of us had anything to fall back on." But I came through, Sean came through, Jackson came through. "Peter played great last year, and came through this year. "Proving that we can do it without Simon and Tyson was a pretty big deal to us. "Losing our two best players was obviously tough this year, and people knew that," Thomas said.
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Jackson Shelley and Sean Lamb each tied for eighth with a two-day total of 2-over 146 to lift Skyline to its 12th golf title in school history. One year after the graduation of BYU golfer Tyson Shelley and Cal's Simon Kwan, Peter Kim tied for second and the Eagles placed four golfers in the top eight for what may be the most impressive team title of the four-peat. "I knew I had to be aggressive, had to hit the right shots, and just not get too conservative."
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"I thought we were two strokes down on 10, and then going into 15, I treated it like we were tied the rest of the way," Thomas said. Thomas carded four birdies on the back nine, finished fifth with a two-day total of 2-under-par 142, and helped the Eagles turn a short deficit into a four-stroke lead en route to a fourth consecutive state title Tuesday at the Oaks at Spanish Fork. It wasn't enough to know the exact scoring, but a glance here, a finger-tip check there, and he knew that the shot at a fourth-straight team title would come down to a few strokes. His father Matthew was following the meet's live scoring, and as the Eagles and Dons rounded the turn, he caught wind that the competition was neck-and-neck. SPANISH FORK - Charlie Thomas probably shouldn't have known where Skyline's boys golf team stood on the final day of the Class 5A state tournament as they battled neck-and-neck with host Spanish Fork.