Blue Ponies struggle at Great Falls Invite

It's still very early in the season, but the Havre High boys golf team got a taste of playing with the big boys on Monday afternoon.

Five HHS boys took to the difficult Meadowlark Country Club Course Monday for the first round of the 36-hole Great Falls Invitational. The tourney features all of the Class AA schools, as well as Class A Havre and Whitefish.

And after the first 18 holes, the Ponies are in last place with a team score of 367. Kalispell Glacier leads the way on the boys side with a 300, followed by Billings Senior and Billings West.

Individually, the Ponies did get a strong performance from senior Simon McCann, who shot 87. McCann's score is just 17 strokes off the lead, which is 70, and only 11 shots out of the Top 10.

Sam Lippy shot 91 for the Blue Ponies and sophomore Trey Brown, playing in only his second varsity golf tournament of his career, shot a respectable 93 on a Monday where temperatures soared to 98 degrees and the winds gusted to 30 MPH in Great Falls.

The Ponies also got a 96 from Ramsey Drew while junior David Denny shot 120.

The second round of the Great Falls Invite is set for today at Eagle Falls Golf Course.

Meanwhile, the Havre High girls varsity team competed in Lewistown on Monday, as did a handful of junior varsity players. Scores weren't available at press time.

Great Fals Invitational

at Meadow Lark Country Club, Par 72

BOYS

Team scores

Kalispell Glacier 300, Billings Senior 301, Billings West 302, Bozeman 309, Whitefish 309, Missoula Hellgate 312, Billings Skyview 315, Missoula Sentinel 317, Helena Capital 320, Butte 332, Missoula Big Sky 332, Helena High 333, Kalispell Flathead 333, CMR 336, Great Falls High 352, Havre 367

Top 10 individuals

1. (tie) Trevin McNeil, Senior, and Brandon McIver, West, 70; 3. (tie) Parker Bradbury, Skyview, and Logan Iverson, Glacier, 71; 5. (tie) Wyatt Nielson, Bozeman, Ryan Porch, Glacier, Michael Lavin, Flathead, and Reed Platke, Whitefish, 73; 9. (tie) Austin Berg, West, Brady Henthorn, Helena, and Arthur Doorn, Whitefish, 76

Team totals

Billings Senior (301)—Trevin McNeil 70, Brandon Meyer 77, Hunter Anderson 77, Zach Fischer 77, Sam Caekaert 78

Billings Skyview (315)—Parker Bradbury 71, Cody Pleas 80, Josh Adamson 82, Braydon Dutton 82, Cole Lorenz 83

Billings West (302)—Brandon McIver 70, Austin Berg 76, Tanner Berg 77, Corbin Bell 79, Jacob Zwemke 87

Bozeman (309)—Wyatt Nielson 73, Michael Daines 78, Kyle Powell 79, Connor Brown 79, Troy Curran 85

Butte (332)—Ty Murphy 79, Tim Schrapps 83, Mike Jankovich 85, Vinny Svejkovsky 85, Dave Starcevich 89

CMR (336)—Josh Kakalecik 82, Taylor Kuntz 82, Cole Stenzel 85, Marcus Levesey 87, Luke Stenzel 89

Kalispell Glacier (300)—Logan Iverson 71, Ryan Porch 73, Cody Sherrill 77, Andy Boyer 79, Dillon Baves 80

Helena Capital (320)—Aiden Clark 77, Dublin Sullivan 80, Dillon Schulz 81, Brock Stetzner 82, Bryson Smith 84

Helena High (333)—Joe Ringling 78, Spencer Petersen 81, Matt Krantz 84, Alex McHugh 90, Brandt Seitz 98

Great Falls High (352)—Cody Babinecz 77, Tanner Thelan 89, Cooper Johnson 92, Aaron Carpenter 94, Bryce Clark 95

Kalispell Flathead (333) Michael Lavin 73, Remington Barnes 85, Max Applegate 86, Cory Felde 89, Jake Williams 94

Billings Senior (317)—Logan Becker 77, Derek Colberg 78, Kyle White 80, Tyler Fox 82, Robbie Jacobsen 86

Missoula Hellgate (312)—Brady Lenthorn 76, Patrick Colberg 77, Joey Warren 77, Alan Anderson 82, Brad Seaholm 85

Missoula Big Sky (332)—Casey Diaz 79, Cory Diaz 83, Aaron Koerner 83, Steve Schmidt 87, Ryley Enich 95

Havre (367)—Simon McCann 87, Sam Lippy 91, Trey Brown 93, Ramsey Drew 96, David Denny 120

Whitefish (309)—Reed Platke 73, Arthur Doorn 76, Camp Kenyon 78, Iaian Cameron 82, Kyle Barron 102