PCM boys end golf season at districts

CARROLL — The PCM boys’ golf team’s season ended on Monday at a Class 2A district golf qualifier.

The Mustangs came into the tournament with one of the top adjusted averages in the field, but a tough day at Carroll Country Club eliminated PCM from state-tournament contention.

Host Carroll Kuemper ran away from the rest of the competition on its home course. The Knights shot 299 as the district champion and Van Meter (331) and Des Moines Christian (337) also advanced to the 2A state tournament.

The top two teams in each district advance unless the host school finishes in the top two in which then a third team moves on.

Individually, the top two finishers not on a qualifying team also advance to state.

PCM (345) and South Central Calhoun (345) had the same team score in fourth and fifth, respectively. Treynor (347) was two strokes back in sixth.

Carroll Kuemper’s Maverick Schwabe was the meet medalist with a 72 and Van Meter’s Caden Norris shot a 73 as the runner-up medalist.

The two individual state qualifiers not on a qualifying state tournament team were South Central Calhoun’s Austin Hanks and Ridge View’s Gavin Vohs, who turned in a 77 and a 76, respectively.

PCM was led by Easton Van Veen’s 83. Grant Van Veen and Charlie Ford both turned in 87s and Jeffrey McDanel and Tate Tangeman carded 88s as the final counting score. Nick Farver turned in a non-counting 90.