With overall finishes of third and fourth place, both the boys and girls golf teams posted their best finishes in school history on October 3 at the 7A state golf tournament in Conway . Both teams were within three strokes of the team in front of them, and the boy’s team did this with its best two players battling a broken hand and a

stomach virus.

Senior Tyler Green broke his hand working on his truck. His doctor told him that he would be in a cast for the next six weeks, which was an issue since the last state golf tournament he would ever have a chance to play in was in three. And being the top player, he wasn’t going to miss out.

“I was supposed to have it on for six weeks,” Green said. “I had them take it off in three so could play, if it wasn’t my senior year I probably wouldn’t have played.”

Green had placed sixth, fourth and third the previous three years, but with his hand injury he didn’t even

make it in to the top ten.

While Green was fighting off the pain in his hand, the team’s second best player, senior Austin Harmon, was dealing with a stomach illness. He woke up the morning of the second round throwing up, and this continued on to the course.

“I wanted to quit after the first nine holes,” Harmon said. “After 15 I couldn’t see straight, but I just kept going and did the best I could.”

Coach Keith Dale is used to seeing much better performances from his top two players, but he was very pleased with how they played.

“I think they did real well for the conditions they were playing in.” Dale said. “Tyler was playing with a broken hand and he shot pretty decent, and Austin woke up the second day sick and still shot pretty good.”

Dale says that he believes his teams impressive performance was a product of the work they did during the summer. Junior Peyton Weaver is a perfect example of this.

Weaver played several ASGA tournaments over the summer and she said she feels this played a big part in her fourth overall finish. Savanna Cathy posted the second best finish on the girls side at twelfth place.

“I played in a lot of ASGA tournaments over the summer,” Weaver said. “You can definitely tell a difference between players who play ASGA and players who don’t, it really gave me an edge on my opponents.”