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Ottawa claims eighth straight Class 2A regional boys’ golf title · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Ottawa claims 8th straight Class to a regional boys golf title. This
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  Everlett. Ottawa won its 8th straight ISA Class II A Regional Championship
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  Wednesday, enjoying a 14-stroke margin of victory atop an 18-team field as
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  the Pirates hosted this year's event at Deer Park Golf Club in
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  Oglesby. Coach Keith Badzowski's squad turned in a total of 314 and
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  had three of the event's top six finishers. Briar Harris placed second
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  with a score of 73, while James Threadgill came in third, 77,
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  and Bodie Martin finished sixth, 80. LaSalle Peru, 328, and Striator 329,
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  claimed the other two qualifying spots in Monday's sectional championship. Wednesday's tournament
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  was delayed 45 minutes by weather and changed to a shotgun start
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  due to persistent rain, and another delay of just more than an
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  hour had to be taken later in the day. We knew the
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  weather was going to be less than ideal, Budzowski said. So today
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  was a mental game. You're not going to get a ton of
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  birdies and shoot your record score, but you just have to stay
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  in it mentally, and they did a good job of that today.
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  The individual championship was claimed by La Salle Peruz Adam Chuu, the
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  event place finisher in last year's tournament. Adan had a great round
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  today, said LaSalle Peru head coach Randy Gunia. He played a smart
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  game and it showed in his score. Opening the event on the
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  back
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  nine, Chu carded birdies on the par four sixteenth and par five
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  eighteenth holes to make the turn at two over par. Chu shot
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  one under par over the final seven holes, taking six par-5 and
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  a birdie on the par 5-4. On the back nine, going into
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  the last few holes, my T spots and approach spots, were not
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  too good, Chew said. My short game, my chipping and putting helped
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  me a lot. Usually I try to birdie the par five holes
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  because there's a lot of room for error. The course was rough.
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  Pudding was pretty hard. It was super unpredictable because there were wet
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  spots and dry spots, so that was probably the hardest part, but
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  I did pretty good in my pudding today. Harris, The 2025 individual
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  regional champion, finished among the regional top ten for the fourth time.
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  He placed fourth in 2024 and finished third as a freshman in
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  2023. The delay was hard, he said. Having to go back in
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  and sit down for an hour and wait was hard, but I
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  didn't think we were going to play, to be honest. The greens
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  were difficult because they had standing water on them, but I got
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  used to it as the day went on. Brennan Stilwell of Streeter
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  and Braden Wickeser of Morris tied for fourth, seventy-eight, making Wickazer the
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  first of ten individual sectional qualifiers. Joliet Catholic's Colt Zabel placed 7th
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  80, while other qualifiers are Tyler Ronaldo of Morris in 8th 81,
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  Mike Bullo of Providence Catholic, 9th 82, Landon Bukowski of Morris, 10th
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  83, Colton Pfeiffer of Providence Catholic 83, Colin Foster of Joliot Catholic,
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  13th 84, Carter Hynan of Joliot Catholic, 16th, 84, Lucas Guitardo of
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  Providence Catholic, 20th 85 and Frankie Ponio of Coal City, 21st, 85.
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  Morris finished fourth in the team standings, three hundred and thirty four,
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  followed by Juliet Catholic, three hundred and thirty seven, Providence Catholic, three
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  hundred and thirty seven, Cole City, three hundred and fifty seven, three
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  hundred and fifty seven. Monday's Class 2A sectional will be held at
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  Kishwaki Country Club in DeKalb, hosted by Sycamore. The course has recently
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  hosted the Interstate 8 Championships, but did not this year due to
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  course conditions. The tournament will include qualifiers from the Rockford Boylan, Morengo,
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  and Sandwich regionals. Ottawa is the defending champion in the event.