COLORADO CITY – At the Colorado High School Activities Association’s 2A boys golf region 1 regional, Monte Vista ran away with the team championship thanks, in part, to placing three golfers among the top-five individual finishers, which helped the Pirates score 12-over 225 as a team.
Kaden Mellott (2-over 73), Liam Ellithorpe (4-over 75) and Connor Mellott (6-over 77) represented Monte Vista in the top five.
The Swink Lions finished as the runner-up (30-over 243) and also placed three golfers in the top-10. Senior Boz Zavala (8-over 79), Noah Pearson (10-over 81) and Nick Paolucci (12-over 83) placed seventh, ninth, and tenth, respectively.
The individual regional champion didn’t represent either Monte Vista or Swink though, as Las Animas senior Damien Baca (1-under 70) earned the top spot among the individual golfers
The remaining top-10 individual golfers were Calhan’s Patrick Glaser (5-over 76), who placed fourth, and Fowler’s Jedadiah Ballard (7-over 78) and Hagen McCuistion (9-over 80), who placed sixth and eighth, respectively.
CHSAA’s 2024 2A Boys Golf State Championship will be played at The Club at Rollins Hills in Golden, on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 7 and 8.
| Rank | Team | Total | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monte Vista | 225 | +12 |
| 2 | Swink | 243 | +30 |
| 3 | Fowler | 250 | +37 |
| 4 | Las Animas | 252 | +39 |
| 5 | Rye | 270 | +57 |
| 6 | Cheyenne Wells | 286 | +73 |
| 7 | La Veta High School | 295 | +82 |
| 8 | Rocky Ford | 307 | +94 |
| 9 | Eads | 315 | +102 |
| 10 | Del Norte | 317 | +104 |
| 11 | Swallows Charter Academy | 326 | +113 |
| Rank | Name | School | Yr | Total | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damien Baca | Las Animas | SR | 70 | -1 |
| 2 | Kaden Mellott | Monte Vista | SR | 73 | +2 |
| 3 | Liam Ellithorpe | Monte Vista | SR | 75 | +4 |
| 4 | Patrick Glaser | Calhan | SR | 76 | +5 |
| 5 | Connor Mellott | Monte Vista | SO | 77 | +6 |
| 6 | Jedadiah Ballard | Fowler | SR | 78 | +7 |
| 7 | Boz Zavala | Swink | SR | 79 | +8 |
| 8 | Hagen McCuistion | Fowler | SR | 80 | +9 |
| 9 | Noah Pearson | Swink | JR | 81 | +10 |
| 10 | Nick Paolucci | Swink | SR | 83 | +12 |
| 11 | Lukas Ozzello | La Veta High School | SR | 84 | +13 |
| 12 | Zach Dickey | Cheyenne Wells | SR | 86 | +15 |
| 13 | Branson Burbidge | Rye | JR | 87 | +16 |
| 14 | Kree Wallace | Las Animas | JR | 89 | +18 |
| 14 | Pierce Burris | Rye | SO | 89 | +18 |
| 14 | Nate Cabrera | Swink | SR | 89 | +18 |
| 17 | Eli Weir | Fowler | SO | 92 | +21 |
| 18 | Deagan Bryson | Rocky Ford | SR | 93 | +22 |
| 18 | Cody Netherton | Las Animas | SR | 93 | +22 |
| 20 | Taegen Eiring | Cheyenne Wells | SR | 94 | +23 |
| 20 | Bruley McCuistion | Fowler | JR | 94 | +23 |
| 20 | Drayton Grasmick | Rocky Ford | SR | 94 | +23 |
| 20 | Kade Kenney | Rye | SO | 94 | +23 |
| 24 | Nicolas Goldberg | Rye | SR | 96 | +25 |
| 25 | Will Gust | Swallows Charter Academy | FR | 98 | +27 |
| 25 | Matthew Dowell | Las Animas | JR | 98 | +27 |
| 27 | Tristan Musgrave | La Veta High School | SR | 99 | +28 |
| 27 | Jakoby Ross | Monte Vista | SO | 99 | +28 |
| 27 | Tytus Atencio | Del Norte | SR | 99 | +28 |
| 27 | Adyn Hough | Eads | SO | 99 | +28 |
| 31 | Gaige Rittgers | Eads | FR | 102 | +31 |
| 32 | Landan Velasquez | Del Norte | JR | 104 | +33 |
| 33 | Chason Turner | Cheyenne Wells | SR | 106 | +35 |
| 34 | Ryden Wolgram | Swallows Charter Academy | SO | 108 | +37 |
| 35 | Kaden Crovo | La Veta High School | SR | 112 | +41 |
| 35 | Kase Shalberg | Cheyenne Wells | FR | 112 | +41 |
| 37 | Noah Bailey | Del Norte | JR | 114 | +43 |
| 37 | Brennan Framel | Eads | SR | 114 | +43 |
| 39 | Karsten Buller | Eads | JR | 119 | +48 |
| 40 | Evan Culver | Rocky Ford | SO | 120 | +49 |
| 40 | Levi Hill | Swallows Charter Academy | SO | 120 | +49 |
| 42 | Scott Powers | Swallows Charter Academy | SR | 123 | +52 |