SHELBY \u2014 Max Milton of Polson and Cameron Burnett of Hamilton captured the boys and girls individual medalist honors Saturday at the Class A state golf meet at Marias Valley Golf & Country Club.<\/p>\n
Milton led after Friday’s first round with a 6-under-par 66 and followed up with a 67 in Round 2 to finish with 133 strokes, two shots better than second-place Colin Jensen of Billings Central. Jensen shot Saturday’s low round with a 66.<\/p>\n
Milton and Jensen paced the boys field and traded low scores all day Saturday. Milton carded a crucial eagle on the par-5 17th that proved to be the difference. Milton had four other birdies, while Jensen had six birdies in the round. Each golfer had one bogey during Round 2.<\/p>\n
Following Milton and Jensen on the boys leaderboard were Mason O’Neil of Whitefish and Matthew Hermanson of Billings Central, who both finished with two-day totals of 148 strokes to tie for third.<\/p>\n
Jensen and Hermanson helped the Central boys win the team trophy. As a team, the Rams finished with 597 strokes. Polson was second with 602 strokes, and Whitefish was third with 636.<\/p>\n
On the girls side, Whitefish won the team title with 710 strokes. Lewistown was second with 745 and Corvallis third with 749.<\/p>\n
Burnett fired a second-round 69 to vault to the top of the girls leaderboard and win medalist honors with a two-day total of 148 strokes. She was the only girl to break 70 on Saturday and did so with five birdies. She had two bogeys but parred every other hole.<\/p>\n
Burnett sat in a tie for second after Friday’s first round, one stroke back of Day 1 leader Ryhlee Scott of Whitefish. Scott on Saturday struggled to a 91 and finished tied for sixth with 169 total strokes.<\/p>\n
Whitefish’s Karlee Brown rose to second on the individual leaderboard, shooting a 76 on Saturday to finish with 158 total shots. Autumn Goodan of Lewistown and CeCe Fornshell tied for third with 161 strokes apiece.<\/p>\n
Class A state golf tournament<\/p>\n
Oct. 2-3 at Marias Valley Golf & Country Club, Shelby<\/p>\n
BOYS<\/p>\n
Team scores: 1, Billings Central 597; 2, Polson 602; 3, Whitefish 636; 4, Livingston 644; 5, Corvallis 655; 6, Hamilton 659; 7, Lockwood 660; 8, Laurel 668.<\/p>\n
Top 10: 1, Max Milton, Polson, 66-67\u2014133; 2, Colin Jensen, Billings Central, 69-66\u2014135; T3, Mason O’Neil, Whitefish, 72-76\u2014148; T3, Matthew Hermanson, Billings Central, 72-76\u2014148; T5, Sawyer Gentry, Livingston, 75-74\u2014149; T5, Beau McGree, Butte Central, 72-77\u2014149; 7, Carson Emerson, Polson, 76-76\u2014152; 8, Stuart Gentry, Livingston, 72-81\u2014153; 9, Dylan Wirt, Corvallis, 79-76\u2014155; T10, Oliver Rowe, Ronan, 75-81\u2014156; T10, Grady Wilder, Laurel, 77-79\u2014156.<\/p>\n
GIRLS<\/p>\n
Team scores: 1, Whitefish 710; 2, Lewistown 745; 3, Corvallis 749; 4, Polson 757; 5, Glendive 772; 6, Miles City 777; 7, Hamilton 783; 8, Livingston 788.<\/p>\n
Top 10: 1, Cameron Burnett, Hamilton, 79-69\u2014148; 2, Karlee Brown, Whitefish, 82-76\u2014158; T3, Autumn Goodan, Lewistown, 79-82\u2014161; T3, CeCe Fornshell, Billings Central, 85-76\u2014161; 5, Skylar LaPierre, Dillon, 83-79\u2014162; T6, Ryhlee Scott, Whitefish, 78-91\u2014169; T6, Sara Dumouchel, Polson, 88-81\u2014169; 8, Ava Flotkoetter, Miles City, 88-85\u2014173; 9, Jillian Wagner, Whitefish, 88-87\u2014175; 10, Kirsten Race, Corvallis, 84-92\u2014176.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHELBY \u2014 Max Milton of Polson and Cameron Burnett of Hamilton captured the boys and girls individual medalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[366994,366995,366996,427,366997,366998,366999,367001,367000,367002,99,367003],"class_list":["post-870727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-billings-central-rams","tag-cameron-burnett","tag-class-a-state-golf-tournament","tag-golf","tag-hamilton-broncs","tag-max-milton","tag-montana-class-a-golf","tag-montana-high-school-golf","tag-montana-state-a-golf","tag-polson-pirates","tag-sports","tag-state-a-golf-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870727","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=870727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}