The Edwardsville boys golf team used five golfers to earn a win at the Pioneer Invitational.<\/p>\n
The Tigers and Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin each shot 299 but EHS won on a fifth-score tiebreaker for the tournament championship on Sept. 25 at Weibring Golf Club in Normal.<\/p>\n
Henry Willenborg carded a 6-over 77 for Edwardsville\u2019s fifth score. SHG had an 82 for a fifth score.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Fallon was third at 300, while Champaign Central and Quincy each shot 301 to round out the top five in the 18-team tournament.<\/p>\n
It was Edwardsville\u2019s sixth tournament win of the season, including the Madison County Tournament, the Dick Gerber Invitational, the Tournament of Champions, the SWC Tournament and the Craig Dixon Invitational.<\/p>\n
In win No. 6, the Tigers packed their scores together.<\/p>\n
Brian Cooper led with a 3-over 74, while Michael Shaw, Drew Capron and Brett Kirgan each shot 4-over 75.<\/p>\n
Capron and Kirgan each had three birdies, while Shaw and Cooper each had two.<\/p>\n
Willenborg sealed the win on his fifth-score tiebreaker. He shot 40 on the front nine and 37 on the back nine.<\/p>\n
Capron had Edwardsville\u2019s low nine of the day, shooting a 1-under 34 on the back nine during his round. He birdied three of the nine holes to overcome a pair of bogeys.<\/p>\n
Luke Maxim also competed for the Tigers and shot 7-over 78.<\/p>\n
Althoff\u2019s Carson Tribout was the tournament\u2019s medalist with a 5-under 66. O\u2019Fallon\u2019s Tyler Murray was second at 2-under 69.<\/p>\n
Cooper finished 14th for the Tigers, while Capron was 16th, Shaw was 20th and Kirgan was 22nd.<\/p>\n
Edwardsville returns for the Crusader Classic on Sept. 28 at St. Clair Country Club in Belleville before opening the postseason Sept. 30 in the Class 3A Collinsville Regional at Arlington Greens Golf Course in Granite City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edwardsville boys golf team used five golfers to earn a win at the Pioneer Invitational. The Tigers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,44,364679,85],"class_list":["post-905998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-news","tag-pubnow","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}