Union City golf breaks school record in Jamboree win; Crance takes medalist honors
UNION CITY – When a team seems to hit a wall, no matter the sport, a trip home always seems to do the trick.
That is what happened with the Union City Charger golf team on Monday as Union City hosted the fifth Big 8 conference jamboree of the season at Turtle Creek Golf Course.
Union City played lights out from the opening tee time, breaking the school’s previous record for lowest combined score at a jamboree with a score of 151. The Chargers rolled to the win on Wednesday by nearly 20 strokes, defeating the Quincy Orioles who finished in second place with a score of 170, which coincidentally is Quincy’s best score of the season.
Springport, looking to keep pace with Union City for the Big 8 championship, dropped to third in the jamboree standings with a score of 173. Bronson finished in fourth place with a 193, followed by the Quincy JV squad at 218 and Maple Valley in sixth place with a score of 263.
Both Concord and Reading do not field full boys golf teams and therefore do not qualify for the team standings.
Medalist honors on the day went to Union City senior Landyn Crance who had been in a back-and-forth battle atop the league standings with Springport freshman Brody Baum. Crance played out of his mind on Monday, using a 2-under-par 34 shot during a practice round this weekend to attack the course with vigor. Crance had just as much success Monday as he did this past weekend, carding a spectacular 1-under par round of 35 to take the win. .
Crance was not exactly alone atop the conference standings on Monday, as teammate Logan Mears worked his way up to second place after carding an even-par round of 36, giving Union City both first and second place in the jamboree standings. Baum of Springport finished in third with a score of 37, followed by Bronson’s first golfer in Carson Norton who shot a 39.
A three-way tie ensued at fifth place as Union City’s Carter Krummrey, Quincy’s Brydan Wible, and Union City’s Jeremy Zehr all carded scores of 40. Quincy’s Keegan Neely came next for the Orioles, finishing in eighth place with a score of 41. Rounding out the top 10 were Springport’s Maximillian Argumedo with a 42 while teammate Braydon Hawes and Quincy's Braylon Estlow tied with a with a 43.
Rounding out the winning effort for Union City was Blayne Crance in fifteenth place with a score of 47 while Max Bigelow finished in nineteenth place with a score of 50.
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Quincy’s effort was aided by sophomore Caleb Bostic who fired off a round of 48, good enough for sixteenth place while Isabelle Neely chipped in with a 53, good enough for twenty-third place. Also playing well for the Orioles was Jax Sargent in sixteenth place with a score of 48 and Hunter Scheidler who finished in eighteenth place with a score of 49.
Bronson’s effort was also paced by Drew Shoup who fired off a 51, good enough for twentieth place.
With the jamboree win Union City took a big step towards a possible conference crown while teams such as Quincy and Springport will now be playing catch-up as teams head into the final stretch in the coming weeks. The whole of the Big 8 will finish their conference schedule next Tuesday when they travel to Concord for the Big 8 conference championship.
This article originally appeared on Coldwater Daily Reporter: Big 8 Conference Jamboree held at Turtle Creek Golf Course
