Lauren Wagner and
Jessie Rybaczyk receive medals at the Monache Better Ball tournament
Girls golf has just started and already Yosemite High School
is fourth in the league. Yosemite High School's team is made up of two juniors,
six freshmen and only two returning golfers: Lauren Wagner, a junior, and
Melissa Markley, a sophomore.
Girls' golf, coached
by Rusty Oetinger, has been at YHS for two years. At the Monache Better Ball
tournament, the junior team of Wagner and Jessie Rybaczyk claimed fourth, while
the freshmen team of Lauren Cano and Ashley Stearns took sixth. There were 16
competing teams.
Wagner alone ranked
fourth out of 30 golfers and Cano ranked 11 out of 55 golfers. Oetinger says
that Wagner and Cano look as if they are the top golfers this year.
There are three
tournaments left between October 10 and October 22 before playoffs start. Those
tournaments will be held at Copper River, Kings River and Selma. Yosemite High
School has hosted only one tournament this year, which was played at Sierra
Meadows.
They travel as far as Bakersfield and Sanger.
Yosemite's fresh young team appears to have a jump on the
competition. Oetinger believes the golf program will increasingly improve
throughout the years. He says that his team is "working hard,"
"looking good" and that he is "really proud of all of
them."
Girls' golf is
becoming more popular at YHS, with ten girls on the team this year, and the
coach hopes the team comes to be known as "the team to beat."