The Jefferson City Lady Jays made history last season as the first girls golf team to qualify for the state tournament since 1993.<\/p>\n
Now the Lady Jays will look for a repeat performance.<\/p>\n
Jefferson City opens the season today with a dual at Fulton.<\/p>\n
The Lady Jays return a pair of sophomores that gained valuable experience during that postseason run in Lily Caudle and Caroline Hensley.<\/p>\n
Both finished in the top 10 last season at the Class 3 District 2 Tournament to help Jefferson City win a team district title, with Hensley finishing fifth with a 95 and Caudle two places behind with a 98.<\/p>\n
At the state tournament, Caudle tied for 45th with a two-day total of 196 and Hensley tied for 59th with a 207.<\/p>\n
The duo will now look to pass on that experience to a Jefferson City roster of eight golfers this fall.<\/p>\n
New to the varsity roster this year are senior Alayna Bennett, sophomores Myla Ahrens and Tiffany Timmerman and freshmen Emma Barry, Sylvia Stegeman and Lorelei Woods.<\/p>\n
The Lady Jays will play in five tournaments this season — the Helias Invitational (Wednesday), the Smith-Cotton Classic (Sept. 14), the Jefferson City Invitational (Sept. 28), the Central Missouri Activities Conference Tournament (Oct. 1) and the Battle Spartan Invitational (Oct. 6).<\/p>\n
Jefferson City will also have two quads — Sept. 16 at Eldon and Sept. 24 against Rock Bridge, Hickman and Batttle — and a dual against Capital City on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n
The Lady Jays graduated four seniors from a season ago, including two-time all-state finisher Mia McGraw, who is now playing in college at Evansville (Ind.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jefferson City Lady Jays made history last season as the first girls golf team to qualify for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-840313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}