Boys Singing ‘Looking Good, Feeling Fine, It’s 3-Peat Time!’

A potential 3-peat is now in play!

The Scobey High School boys’ golf team said so!

With authority! The Spartans entered Montana’s Sunrise City and its Sidney Country Club 18hole course for the State C Meet last week and exited in the late afternoon hours of Wednesday, May 21, as the Montana High School Association’s two-time state champion.

All four boys representing SHS, the City of Scobey, Daniels County and northeastern Montana—juniors Cooper Axtman, Brecken Maher and Evan Tande and freshman Teagan Fishell— it’s time to take that bow because you earned it!

That said, just how did they do it?

Well, it starts with the top gun, the first-time individual state champion Axtman.

He found himself in a battle with the Manhattan Christian Eagles’ Cavan Visser right from the get-go Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. when the tourney teed off with a shotgun start. They were tied after two holes before Axtman began pulling away, up by as much as five strokes, 26-to-31, two-thirds the way through the front nine. By the time they were at the turn, the advantage had shrunk to 39-41.

Halfway into the back-9 Visser took advantage of four consecutive pars on holes 11-14, first creating a tie at 58 followed by another at 61. After Axtman regained a one-shot advantage on No. 15, the two were knotted again, this time at 70 strokes each through 16 holes and 74 through 17.

Axtman parred No. 18 while Visser took a bogey-6, giving the Scobey junior a one-stroke advantage (7980) going into Wednesday’s final round.

Axtman parred a dozen of the holes, bogeyed five of them and penciled in a double bogey on the par-3 No. 11.

Visser carded a birdie on the par-3 No. 9 and had nine pars to be one stroke back at 80 swings of the clubs.

Meanwhile, Axtman’s teammates were doing their part to help keep the Spartans in the lead through the day-one action.

Junior Evan Tande had a front-nine, 10-over 46 but was hot on the back nine, parring 10-12, taking bogeys on 13 and 14 and finshing with four consecutive pars for a very fine 2-over par 38. He finished day one in third place.

Junior Brecken Maher went bogey, par, bogey, bogey and double bogey before stringing together four consecutive pars for a front-9 five-over-par 41. On the back side he went bogey, double bogey, par followed by six straight bogeys for a 9-over 45 and 86 on the day.

Freshman Teagan Fishell played a consistent first round by carding a 24-overpar 48-48—96, featuring four pars, five bogeys, five double bogeys and four tr...