Lancer boys set golf records over season

Lincolnview boys’ golf information

DELPHOS — The Lincolnview boys’ golf team has broken or tied several records in the past week following wins over the weekend and at a Northwest Conference quad golf match held at Delphos Country Club on Monday.

The Lancers won the match with a team score of 170, nine strokes better than Allen East, which edged Lincolnview 215-225 for the Lancers’ only loss this season at a 10-team weekend tournament. Spencerville was third with a team score of 194, while Delphos Jefferson finished fourth with a score of 216.

Joshah Rager, who was match medalist on Monday with a nine-hole score of 38, broke his own 18-hole record score of 68 with a 64 on Saturday at the Antwerp Golf Tournament, while also tying the low 9-hole score of 34 first set by Kevin Price in 2000 in a recent match. Rager also broke his own season average low of 37.6 with a 36.0 this season.

The team broke its season wins record of 63 set in 2014 with 67 this year (and counting) and also broke the 1979 team’s winning percentage record of .877 with a 95 percent  (and counting) season winning percentage this year.

The team also has the best winning record (16-0), breaking the 13-1 record set in 1987; best non-tournament record with a 29-0 record this year, breaking a 28-3 record set in 1997; and lowest team average of 162, which breaks a record of 163.6 set by a Lancer team in 1998.

Lincolnview players this year include Rager, a junior; senior Derek Youtsey; and freshmen Ryan Moody, Reece Farmer, Jaden Youtsey and Braden Evans.

Team/individual scores from Monday’s match are as follows:

Lincolnview (170) – Joshah Rager, 38; Derek Youtsey, Ryan Moody, Reece Farmer and Jaden Youtsey, all 44; and Braden Evans, 47.

Allen East (179) – Kayne Richardson and Parker Frey, both 39 (match medalist runners-up); Grant Whitley, 39; Ariel Schantz and Harrison Kill, both 52; and Nick Phillips, 56.

Spencerville (194) – Mitchell Youngpeter, 42; Collin Davis, 48; Brian Wood and Drake Metz, both 52; Logan Core, 60; and Alex Gallman, 61.

Delphos Jefferson (216) – Andrew Foust, 48; Alex Theobald and Braden Hammons, both 54; Connor Berelsman, 60; Evan Mox, 61; and Brooke Gallmeier, 64.