Hounds win home invite
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Maryville sophomore Matt Twaddle hits a shot out of the fairway and onto the green during Wednesday morning’s Maryville Invitational. Twaddle shot an 80 to finish second overall, and the Spoofhounds won the best-ball tournament with a score of 152 between its top two duos.
MARYVILLE, Mo. — The Maryville boys golf team won its home best ball invitational Wednesday morning at the Sechrest 18 at Mozingo Lake Recreational Park and placed six golfers in the top 10.
Maryville’s 152 in the best-ball format topped Savannah by six strokes to give the Spoofhounds their first tournament title of the season after taking second place three times and third the other in its first four tournaments.
Savannah’s Trent Young shot an 18-hole 78 to win individual medalist honors, but the Spoofhounds took six of the top 10 places.
Sophomore Matt Twaddle shot an 80 to take second and junior Hunter Hayes finished third with an 81.
Sophomores Jansen Bundridge (85) and Bryce Farlin (87) rounded out the top five. Sophomore Trey Oglesby (91) won a scorecard playoff with Lafayette’s Kyle Vest for the No. 7 spot and junior Keegan Riley (95) won a playoffs with Savannah’s Brad McManus and Mound City’s Ben Shifflett for the final medal.
Both of Maryville’s duos — Hayes and Oglesby and Twaddle and Farlin — shot 76s under the best-ball format to win the team title.
Savannah — led by Young and Jack McKay’s 74 — finished second with a 158 combined score. Lafayette (174) finished third and Mound City (181) took fourth.
West Nodaway’s duo of senior Jason Farmer and freshman Trace Hunt combined for a best ball score of 109.
The Spoofhounds will take part in the Richmond Tournament at 8:30 a.m. Friday, April 24 while the Rockets are back on the course at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 25 for the Sidney (Iowa) Tournament.
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Maryville sophomore Bryce Farlin puts on hole No. 9 Wednesday morning during the Maryville Invitational. Farlin finished fifth with an 87 and helped lead the Spoofhounds to first place in the best-ball tournament. He was one of six Hounds to finish in the top 10 individually.
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Maryville junior Hunter Hayes chips on to the green Wednesday morning during the Maryville Invitational. Hayes and sophomore Trey Oglesby helped the Spoofhounds win the best ball formatted tournament with a combined 76, the same score as the team of sophomores Matt Twaddle and Bryce Farlin. Hayes finished third overall with an 18-hole score of 81.
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Maryville sophomore Trey Oglesby watches his putt drop into the cup during the Maryville Invitational Wednesday morning at the Sechrest 18 at Mozingo Lake Recreational Park. Oglesby shot a 91 to finish seventh overall and combined with junior Hunter Hayes for a best ball score of 76.
