WILLMAR -- It was home sweet home for the Willmar boys as they hosted the Central Lakes Conference meet at Eagle Creek Golf Club Thursday.
Sophomore Sam Warzecha shot a 37-35-72, the day's second lowest score, and Derek Hilding followed with a 76 to lead Willmar to a 312 score, good for third place behind Alexandria's 298 and Brainerd's 309.
Willmar had shot in the high 330's its first two road meets but appears to have found its form just prior to the start of the two-day Willmar/Litchfield Invitational (1 p.m. today at Litchfield, 9 a.m. Saturday at Willmar).
Tyler Wahl at 80 and Tom Wagner at 84 finished out Willmar's top four.
Bryce Hanstad of Alexandria shot 71 for medalist.
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Team scoring
(1) Alexandria 298 (2) Brainerd 309 (3) Willmar 312 (4) Little Falls 319 (5) St. Cloud Tech 320 (6) Sauk Rapids 324 (7) Fergus Falls 326 (8) St. Cloud Apollo 3338 (9) tie, Rocori, Sartell, each 341
Individual
TOP THREE - (1) Bryce Hanstad, Alx, 71 (2) Sam Warzecha, Wil, 72 (3) tie, Jack Dressen, Alx, 74; Matt Baum, LF, 74
Willmar results
Warzecha 37-35-72, Derek Hilding 39-37-76, Tyler Wahl 39-41-80, Tom Wagner 45-39-84, Ryan Hagemeyer 49-40-89, Cory Tollefson 48-46-94
Team standings
(After 3 meets)
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(1) Alexandria 30 (2) Brainerd 25 (3) St. Cloud Tech 22 (4) Little Falls 20 (5) Sauk Rapids 19 (6) Willmar 16 (7) Fergus Falls 11 (7) Rocori 9.5 (8) St. Cloud Apollo 7 (9) Sartell 5.5
Next conference meet: Wednesday at Brainerd
West Central South
Results Thursday at Olivia
Tony Klosterboer of Montevideo and Chris Kollen of Yellow Medicine East shot 38 each to share medalist honors in the first conference meet of the season.
Team scoring
(1) Montevideo 165 (2) Yellow Medicine East 169 (3) BOLD 171 (4) Morris 182 (5) Lac qui Parle Valley 187 (6) Benson 194 (7) Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 194
Individual
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TOP FIVE - (1) tie Tony Klosterboer, Mon; Chris Kollen, YME, 38 (3) tie Chris Gervais, Mon; Cole Neubauer, BOLD; Max Martin, Mor; Ross Sandven, LQPV, 41
Area results
ACGC - Jordan Kaiser 44, Jeremiah Nelson 45, Ben Carlson 52, Josh Kragenbring 53
BOLD - Cole Neubauer 41, Bryce Steffel 42, Isaac Rodriguez 44, Ross Neubauer 44
BENSON/KMS - Carl Lindblad 48, David Holte 48, Ross Benjamin 49, Justin Anderson 49
LAC QUI PARLE VALLEY - Ross Sandven 41, Joe Bendel 48, Luke Nelson 49, Chris Aagensen 49
MONTEVIDEO - Tony Klosterboer 38, Chris Gervais 41, Eric Ziemann 42, Tyler Johnson 44, Noah Mann 42
MORRIS AREA - Max Martin 41, Adam Zierke 43, Adam Lesmeister 46, Cory O'Keefe 52
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YME - Chris Kollen 38, Dylan Hempel 43, Mike Midthun 43, Tyler Gensvold 45, Chris Stevens 45
Team standings
(After 1 meet)
(1) Montvideo 7 (2) YME 6 (3) BOLD 5 (4) Morris 4 (5) LQPV 3 (6) Benson 2 (7) ACGC 1
Next conference meet: Monday at Benson
Melrose Invite
Evan Peters of Minnewaska and Chris Tobkin of New London-Spicer tied for medalist honors at 37, but Peters was one of four golfers that shot under 40 to help Minnewaska win the team title by one stroke over the Wildcats.
The Lakers got a 38 from Pierce Peters and 39s from Ryan Kollman and Ben Henke.
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Team scoring
(1) Minnewaska 153 (2) New London-Spicer 154 (3) Melrose 161 (4) Sauk Centre 167 (5) St. Cloud Cathedral 167 (6) Paynesville 168 (7) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 182 (8) Melrose JV 183
Individual
TOP FIVE - (1) tie, Evan Peters, Min, 37; Chris Tobkin, NLS, 37 (3) tie, Tony Tobkin, NLS, 38; Pierce Peters, Min, 38 (5) Ben Austing, Mel, 38
Area results
BELGRADE-BROOTEN-ELROSA - Spencer Otteson 41, Mike Rodgers 45, Matt Goodwin 47, Cory Tonn 49
MINNEWASKA - Evan Peters 37, Pierce Peters 38, Ryan Kollman 39, Ben Henke 39
NEW LONDON-SPICER - Chris Tobkin 37, Tony Tobkin 38, Mike Freeman 39, Nick Carlson 40
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PAYNESVILLE - Justin Bork 39, Zach Fuchs 40, Ross Barten 41, Jeremy Schmidt 48, Travis Wensmann 48
