EMPORIA — Great Bend’s Cole Streck finished 11th with a 2-2 record at the Kansas Junior Match Play Championship Wednesday and Thursday at Emporia Golf Course.
In match play, Wichita’s Junior Amateur champion Cooper Schultz (1 under) downed Streck (6 over), 7 and 5. Streck won five holes on the front nine to beat Lawrence’s Andrew Park, 4 and 3. Last year’s match play champion Mason Nicklaus (2 under) downed Streck (3 over par), 5 and 4, in the third round. Streck downed Salina's Cameron Shaw, 1-up, for 11th-place.
Streck fired rounds of 77-73 (150) to place 11th in the Junior Tour Championship qualifying. Streck birdied Nos. 3 and 7 the first round and No. 16 the second round.
Junior Tour champion Gentry Scheve shot 64-70 (134) to edge Salina’s Tate Herrenbruck 68-69 (137) to win the qualifying tournament. Scheve (3 under) birdied Nos. 14, 15 and 16 to beat Herrenbruck 3 and 2 in the match play championship.
Ellinwood’s Drew Heinz shot rounds of 97-104 (201) to place 17th in the 12-13 age division.
KGA JUNIOR MATCH PLAY
Emporia G.C. par 71
THURSDAY'S FINALS
1—Gentry Scheve, Emporia (3 under) def. Tate Herrenbruck, Salina (even), 3 and 2
3—Cooper Schultz, Wichita def. Tyler Trudo, Wichita, 1-up
5—Tradgon McCrae, Plainville def. Blake Saffell, Wellington, 1-up
7—Caleb Kimmel, Olathe def. Garin Ihrig, Goodland, forfeit
9— Calvin Dillon, Louisburg (1 over) def. Mason Nicklaus, Shawnee (2 over), 1-up, 19 holes
11—Cole Streck, Great Bend def. Kameron Shaw, Salina, 1-up
13—Caleb Schmidt, Emporia (73) def. Ty Adkins, Hutchinson (74), 1-up
SEMIFINALS—Scheve (67) def. Schultz (68), 1-up; Herrenbruck (even) def. Trudo (4 over), 2-up; McCrae (4 under) def. Kimmel (2 under), 2 and 1; Saffell (1 over) def. Ihrig (4 over), 2 and 1; Dillon (even) def. Shaw (2 over), 3 and 2; Nicklaus (2 under) def. Streck (3 over), 5 and 4; Adkins (5 under) def. Beck (2 over), 4 and 2; Schmidt (2 over) def. Park (7 over), 5 and 3
SECOND ROUND—Scheve (3 under) def. Kimmel (even), 3 and 1; Schultz (3 under) def. McCrae (2 under), 1-up; Trudo (1 under) def. Saffell (1 over), 2-up; Herrenbruck (5 under) def. Ihrig (1 over), 6 and 5; Nicklaus (2 under) def. Schmidt (5 over), 6 and 5; Streck def. Park, 4 and 3; Dillon def. Beck, 2 and 1; Shaw (5 under) def. Adkins (1 over), 6 and 5
FIRST ROUND—Scheve (1 over) def. Schmidt (2 over), 1-up, 19 holes; Kimmel (1 under) def. Nicklaus (even), 1-up; Schultz (1 under) def. Streck (6 over), 7 and 5; McCrae (3 over) def. Park (6 over), 1-up; Trudo (3 under) def. Beck (1 under), 3 and 2; Saffell (5 under) def. Dillon (3 over), 7 and 5; Herrenbruck (70) def. Adkins (71), 1-up; Ihrig (even) def. Shaw (4 over), 4 and 2