The Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth boys’ golf team ended a 9-10 season during the Sub-Section 10 Golf Championships staged in Tyler Monday.Coming off a strong performance during the Red Rock meet Thursday, the Patriots were hoping to challenge the area’s top teams for a berth in the section field at the sub-section event.H-BC-E, however, couldn’t put anything together during a cold, wet and windy day. The Patriots placed fifth in a five-team field with 398 strokes.Luverne won the team title with 337 strokes and will represent Sub-Section 10 at tomorrow’s Section 3A Championships in Marshall.Pipestone (353), Tracy-Milroy-Balaton (367) and Southwest Christian (388) also finished in front of the Patriots.Tom Janssen led the Patriots at the meet with a 25-over-par 96. Janssen needed to shoot a 90 to be involved in a playoff for the fifth individual qualifying position for the section meet.Derek Sammons added a 102 to H-BC-E’s team tally, while Clint Rozenboom and Dustin Bonnema added 102s to the effort.Dusty Seachris and Travis Broesder shot 115- and 126-stroke rounds without influencing the scoring.Luverne’s Colby Anderson won the individual championship by shooting a nine-over-par 80.Individual qualifiers for the section meet include Pipestone’s Paul Barduson (84), T-M-B’s Eric Peterson (85), Pipestone’s Ben Morgan (86), Pipstone’s Mark Mickelson (90) and T-M-B’s Brian Jackson (90).
