RAMS ARE STATE BOUND

For the forth time in five years, the Riverdale Golf Team has qualified for state. The team has only missed a state appearance in those five years during the shortened COVID season of 2020. In 2020 they finished second at Sectionals and would have qualified, had there been a state tournament. The team consists of five seniors and a junior, many of which have experience playing in the state tournament. This will be Ashton Sutton and James Moorhusen’s third time playing in the state tournament. In previous trips they were members of a second place state finish and a third place state finish. Ben Nelson and Sam Willems are making their second trip to state and Parker Friant and Ethan Kiddoo are making their first appearance. The Rams may have the most experience out of any team that has qualified for this year’s tournament. They are not getting a head of themselves though, their goal is to continue to advance. “On Friday our goal is to make the cut, in 2019 we were one spot away from the cut [seventh place] and came back on Saturday to take third place. That’s been our word all post season, advance!” said assistant coach Jason Dennhardt.

The team leaves Thursday morning for a practice round, then competition starts Friday morning. The class 1A boys golf course is Prairie Vista Golf Course in Bloomington, IL. The top eight teams after Friday’s play, including ties, will advance to the second day of play on Saturday. There will be twelve teams from across the state playing in this weekend’s state tournament.

For informational updates you can go to the IHSA web-page for boys golf, end of the day results and tee-times will be posted there. www.ihsa.org

If you want to get live scoring, go to iWanamaker.com and create an account. Once you have an account search the events for IHSA Boys’ Class 1A State and purchase a ticket to the event. You can watch the LIVE scoring from there, or once you have an account and a ticket purchased, search for IHSA Golf in your app store, download and log in to get LIVE scoring on your phone.

Friday Tee Times
8:30 Parker Friant
8:39 Ethan Kiddoo
8:48 Sam Willems
8:57 Ashton Sutton
9:06 Ben Nelson
9:15 James Moorhusen

Teams Competing
Beecher
Central Catholic (Bloomington)
IC Catholic (Elmhurst)
Monticello
North Shore Country Day
Oblong
Peoria Christian
Riverdale
Rockridge
Sherrard
St. Anthony (Effingham)
Vandalia