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Maharishi School Pioneer Golf
Tournament Report
Southeast Iowa Super Conference Tournament Championship Thursday, May 7, 2009
Shaeffer GC, Par 72

Top Ten Individual Scores from North and South Divisions combined
34-41 75 John DeAngelis Maharishi South Division Medalist Conference Overall Low Score First Team All Conference
39-40 79 Chris Millard New London South Division Runner-up Medalist Conference Overall Runner-up  First Team All Conference

37-43 80 Kyle Helmerson New London First Team All Conference
41-39 80 Jacob Sheitlin Mediapolis North Division Medalist First Team All Conference
42-39 81 Kaleb Alfred Notre Dame First Team All Conference
43-39 82 Ben Harmeyer Holy TrinityFirst Team All Conference
41-41 82 Jordan Hawk Central Lee First Team All Conference
43-40 83 Nate Lieving Holy TrinitySecond Team All Conference
44-39 83 Kyle Jack Wapello North Division Runner-up Medalist First Team All Conference
43-42 83 Brian Krehbiel Central Lee Second Team All Conference

Team Scores

335 New London South Division Champion Conference Overall Low Score

345 Central Lee South Division Runner-up Conference Overall Runner-up
346 Holy Trinity
351 Notre Dame
354 Maharishi
355 Wapello North Division Champion
361 Louisa Muscatine North Division Runner-up
362 Mediapolis
366 IMS
370 Lone Tree
382 Winfield-Mt Union
386 Columbus
398 Danville
418 Van Buren
429 Waco

Maharishi Scores

 34-41 75 John DeAngelis South Division Medalist  Conference Overall Low Score First Team All Conference
44-45 89 Yale Shaw Conference Overall Eighteenth Place
Honorable Mention All Conference
49-46 95 Paul DeAngelis Conference Overall 38th
 49-46 95 Matt Fleshman Conference Overall 38th

44-51 95 Tye Huggins Conference Overall 38th
52-57 109 Nick Schwartz Conference Overall 66th

Notes from Coach Ed Hipp:

The South Division teams all played the back nine first, then the front nine second.  The North Division teams all played the front nine first, then the back nine second. 

For example, that means that John shot his 41 on the back nine first and then went out on the front nine to finish with his two under par 34. After his first nine holes, he was behind six players, but his strong finish more than made up the deficit.

The coaches voted a few years ago to recognize this tournament as both a division and an overall conference tournament.  But there seems  to be some ambiguity as to whether that coaches' vote prevails. Nevertheless, since all the teams and players are playing on the same course on the same day, just like the old days before we split into  divisions, I take it to be an overall conference event as well as a  division event.

We were tied for overall fourth place after the first nine holes.  We got passed from two strokes behind by Notre Dame, but we beat the two teams that were tied with us to hold on to fifth.  We narrowly edged Wapello by one stroke. 

  The top five teams overall were in the South Division.  Indeed, if we  were in the North Division, we would have won it.  And if all of our grandmothers had wheels, they would all be trollies.

John wrote himself into the Pioneer Golf history book today in three ways today:

1) He is our first overall conference tournament low scorer in the fifteen years of our program.  In 1995 our State Champion Lyric Duveyoung tied New London's Mike Phillips in regulation but lost the playoff.  We have had division winners, but John is the first to play  better than everyone in the conference.

2) John's 75 is the second lowest Conference score ever shot by a Pioneer.  Lyric had a 74 in 1996 and Aubrey Deans shot a 75 in 2002.
My records indicate that John's front nine score of two under par is  probably the lowest front nine score by any player in the Super  Conference in the fifteen years that I've been keeping records.

Aquinas's Andy Sirois shot a 34 on the back nine in 1999 for the only other under par nine in my records. (There are a couple of gaps in my records, so I can't be sure.)