Comets 3rd at NEIC Girls Golf Meet; Effle, Girkin All-Conference

Press Staff Report

WAUKON — Charles City sophomores Shelby Effle and Claire Girkin tied for 13th place among individuals during Monday’s Northeast Iowa Conference Girls Golf Meet with 18-hole scores of 119, thus earning All-Conference honors.

Senior Brinn Lahr, who was an All-Conference golfer last season, placed 2 strokes outside the Top 15 with a score of 122; and sophomore Olivia Kreger shot a 134 to round out the scoring for the Comets, whose total (494) placed them third in the six-team field.

New Hampton and Waverly-Shell Rock both shot team scores of 406, but with Lauren Nuss’s Chickasaw-leading score of 92 being 1 stroke lower than WSR’s top shooter Brenna Bodensteiner for medalist honors, New Hampton was determined as the meet’s champs.

Rounding out the team scoring were Crestwood (510), Decorah (550) and Waukon (INC.), which hosted the meet at Waukon Golf and Country Club.

Rounding out the Top 15 individual scoring were New Hampton’s Lydia Olson (97), Waverly-Shell Rock’s Emma Jones (100), Crestwood’s Cameran Moellers (101), Waverly-Shell Rock’s Mady Mummelthei (103), New Hampton’s Sanja Noehl (106), Waverly-Shell Rock’s McKenzie Weilder (110), Waukon’s Alyssa Connelly (111), New Hampton’s Maycen Hackman (111), Waverly-Shell Rock’s Morgan Morrill (112), New Hampton’s Kinsli Dahl (114), and New Hampton’s Molly Wegner and Waverly-Shell Rock’s Nicole Ramker (both 120).