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Nine UP Golf Teams Battle Cold, Wind In Escanaba
 ESCANABA---The weather was clold and blustery, but nine Upper Peninsula high school golf teams managed to fight through it Thursday at the Northern Michigan Bank Invitional at the Escanaba Country Club. Norway edged Escanaba by four strokes to win the boys event, while the Eskymos cruised to the girls championship as three teams did not have enough girls to have a team score.  Gauthier (pictured) was playing in his second tournament after suffering a severe injury7 during the hockey season, exactly 90 days before. Gauthier severed his Achille's tendon and broke his tibula and fibula bones during that Feb. 7 accident in Chelsea, Mich. Gladstone took third place with 343 strokes, led by senior Ben Lasecki, who finished in second place with a 79. Munising and Marquette tied for fourth with 348's, and Iron Mountain took sixth, Negaunee seventh, and Menominee was eighth. Escanaba's Dane Casperson shot an 85 to finish seventh. Gladstone's Dave Dykowski shot an 83 and was tied with Gauthier and two other golfers in third place. In the girl's meet, Escanaba was the winner with 405 strokes as Kelsey Motto was second overall after shooting a 92. Eskymo senior Jalyn Dagenais carded a 102 and took fifth. Gladstone finished second in the girls meet with 432 strokes, led by Callie Jensen's 94, which was good for third overall. Munising was third with 452 strokes, led by Carla Nottmeier's 96, which was good for fourth overall individually. Marquette did not have enough girls on hand to have a team score, but Avery Rochester was the medalist individually, shooting an 85. Iron Mountain and Norway also did not have enough girls to get a team score. |
