Led by Henry Talarico, the Chaparrals won their 15th state golf championship Tuesday\u00a0with a six-stroke victory over runner-up The Woodlands at White Bluff Resort. Westlake led by six shots after Monday’s first round and held on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Coached by Michael Rome, Westlake’s winning team of Talarico, Dylan Knox,\u00a0JP Lynch, Luke Frey and Sterling Hurd finished with a two-day score of 578 (284-294). The Woodlands finished with an overall score of 584 (290-294).<\/p>\n
Talarico was the best golfer on the course, finishing with a score of 142 (70-72). After a five-way tie for third place, which included Hurd (72-72-144) and Lynch (70-74-144), Hurd finished tied for third and Lynch fifth after a playoff.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the Westlake golfers were Knox (72-77-149) and Frey (81-76-157). It marked Westlake’s ninth team title in 10 years.<\/p>\n
Lake Travis had a fine showing at the state meet, finishing in third place, 25 shots behind the Chaparrals (303-300-603). The Cavs were led by Bennett Kuhns, who finished tied for third place (69-75-144) and MacKey Bennett (74-71-145), who tied for eighth. Rounding out the Lake Travis scoring were Brady Shelton (76-78-154), Elliott Cope (84-76-160) and Jack Rincon (88-86-174).<\/p>\n
As for the future, Westlake’s Hurd is a senior headed to Texas in the fall. Frey, also a senior, is heading to Emory University in Atlanta. Talarico, Knox and Lynch are sophomores.<\/p>\n
Competing as an individual, Austin High junior Braydon Pratt (76-72-148) finished tied for 16th.<\/p>\n
Anderson finishes 9th: In Class 5A, Prosper Walnut Grove (285-290) won state with a one-shot victory over Highland Park (288-288-576). The Anderson team of Cash Hernandez, Drew Gilley, Samuel Woodberry, Stephen Eidson and Thomas Ashy finished finished ninth (310 -320-630) at Legacy Hills Golf Club in Georgetown.<\/p>\n
Competing as an individual, Georgetown’s Rylan Hogue (70-74-144) finished tied for ninth place.<\/p>\n
Class 4A champion: In Class 4A, the Lubbock Cooper Liberty team of Cole\u00a0Barr, Cy Jones, Jackson Ballou, Jay Ewing and Reed Blacklock (290-294-584) won the state team championship with a five-stroke win over Andrews at Legends Golf Course in Georgetown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Led by Henry Talarico, the Chaparrals won their 15th state golf championship Tuesday\u00a0with a six-stroke victory over runner-up…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_volume":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1634,905,2852,623,624,3023,2856,2854,2853],"class_list":["post-10186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-high-school-golf","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-schools","tag-texas","tag-texas-golf","tag-uil","tag-uil-state-championship","tag-westlake-chaparrals","tag-westlake-golf","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@fogolf\/117358579178506959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}