New Castle won the Hoosier Heritage Conference golf championship Saturday in an extremely tight race for the title at Hawk’s Tail in Greenfield.
Eleven strokes separated the top six positions, as New Castle shot 330 to beat Mt. Vernon by two and Yorktown by four. Fourth-place Pendleton Heights shot 337. New Palestine was fifth with 338 and Delta sixth with 341. Greenfield-Central (354) and Shelbyville (368) were seventh and eighth.
New Castle’s Trevor Turner was the individual HHC champion with a three-over par 75. New Castle had two All-HHC performers, as Spencer Stewart tied for fifth with an 80.
Delta’s Tyler Jobe was the HHC runner-up with a 76. Pendleton Heights’ Austin Davis was third with a 78, New Palestine’s Elijah Domogala fourth with a 79. Stewart and Mt. Vernon’s John Huser each shot 80. Four players tied for seventh with 81s – Yorktown’s Bryce Hardwick and Alex Bratton, NP’s Quinn Dobbins and PH’s Riley George.
New Castle returned to the top of the HHC, winning its third golf title in four years. The Trojans also won in 2015 and 2016 before Delta claimed the title in 2017.
Team scores
New Castle (330): Trevor Turner 75, Spencer Stewart 80, Brady Wheeler 84, Nolan Beam 91, Tanner Alley 104
Mt. Vernon (332): John Huser 80, Xavier Dunham 82, Sean McWilliams 84, Elijah Dunham 86, Max Heitman 91
Yorktown (334): Alex Bratton 81, Bryce Hardwick 81, Cody Carey 84, Brennan Baize 88, Bing Wilson 89
Pendleton Heights (337): Austin Davis 78, Riley George 81, Wyatt Weaver 86, Carter Ray 92
New Palestine (338): Elijah Domogala 79, Quinn Dobbins 81, Chris Guhl 86, Matt Kelley 92, Josh Shinkle 93
Delta (341): Tyler Jobe 76, Blake Shanayda 84, Logan Manor 88, Brady Hunt 93, Carson Rhoades 99
Greenfield-Central (354): Kyle Arrowood 82, Noah Mohler 83, Zach Archer 93, Canyen Palmer 96, Brad Stine 99
Shelbyville (368): Evan Phares 87, Bryce Asher 91, Justin Glessner 95, Brayden McLane 95, Noah Dusenbery 118
Results with hole-by-hole scores