By John Rittenhouse
A Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth golfer qualified for section competition during the Sub-Section 10 A Golf Tournament in St. James Wednesday, May 23.
Tom Janssen, an H-BC-E freshman, locked up an individual qualifying position during the event, which was originally scheduled to be played at Worthington's Prairie View Country Club May 21. Rain that day forced the site and date of the tournament to be switched.
The top team and top five individual finishers who are not members of the championship team qualify for section competition at the sub-section meet.
The Section 3A Championships were played Friday in Marshall.
With individual champion Brian Kvamme (82) and runner up Chad Nelson (85) leading the way, Pipestone-Jasper won the boysÕ seb-section crown with 347 strokes during the 18-hole event. Matt Oye and Andy Eitreim, who shot 90s to tie for fifth and sixth place indiviudally, rounded out P-JÕs team tally.
Since the four Arrows who finished in the top six are taken out of the running for individual qualifying positions, one of the individual berths for the section meet was claimed by H-BC-E's Janssen.
Luverne's Tony Smedsrud and Colby Anderson shot 86s, and Tracy-Milroy-Balaton's Eric Peterson shot an 87 to claim three individual positions.
Janssen and LuverneÕs Kelsey Anderson shot 93s to secure the final two qualifying positions.
H-BC-E, which finished the team season with a 3-6 record, compiled 406 strokes as a squad to round out the four-team field. P-J, Luverne (360) and T-M-B (374) topped the Patriots in the standings.
Dean Moss and Blake Brommer, who were individual qualifiers for last year's section meet, added 96- and 106-stroke scores to H-BC-E's team tally.
Ben Herman added a 111 to the team effort, while Kyle Sammons and Tom Beaner didn't influence the scoring with 123- and 143-tallies.
H-BC-EÕs girls end a 1-11 season after rounding out a seven-team field in St. James May 23.
Luverne (371), Fulda (393), Murray County Central (403), T-M-B (434), Adrian (447) and P-J (463) topped H-BC-EÕs tally of 536 strokes.
Jessica Wassenaar carded a 117 to lead the Patriots. A 98-stroke round was needed to qualify for section competition.
Jessica Martens, Marla Groen and Melissa Fagerness added 117-, 131- and 166-stroke scores to H-BC-E's team effort.
Angie Bush and Kari Jansma shot 198- and 208-scores without influencing the scoring.