TYLER — For the second consecutive season, the Dawson-Boyd girls golf team has claimed the Camden Conference title. Lindsey Lund finished as the individual runner-up at the event at Tyler Golf Club while Alyssa Swedzinski and Kylar Hjelmeland tied for third place to help the Blackjacks defeat Lac qui Parle Valley to come home with the hardware on Tuesday.

Dawson-Boyd finished with a team score of 336, beating out LQPV’s 369, Community Christian’s 399 and Lakeview’s 450. The other six teams did not field a team score.

Lund’s 6-over 77 round was second only to LQPV’s Molly Halvorson’s 75 in the field of 33 golfers. Lund had five pars and a birdie through her first seven holes and added another seven pars on the back nine. The performance helped her run away with the title of Camden Conference Most Valuable Player, while Hjelmeland, Swedzinski, Claire Stratmoen and Laura Schreier were also named to the All-Conference team for Dawson-Boyd.

Swedzinski and Hjelmeland tied for third place at 13-over 84. Swedzinski picked up a birdie on hole 10 and recorded four consecutive pars from hole 17 through 2, while Hjelmeland flourished on the back nine with six pars.

LQPV had Peyton Sachs and Kate Ulstad claim fifth and sixth place at 87 and 90, but Stratmoen sealed the Dawson-Boyd victory by taking seventh place at 20-over 91, with four pars on the front nine.

Lakeview was led by Lauren Boe and Nora Forslund, who placed 15th at 101 and 17th at 106, respectively.

While Canby was one golfer shy of fielding a team score, each of their three girls placed in the top 20. Freshman Maddison Richter, a state tournament participant last year, tied Community Christian’s Margo Klaassen for eighth place with 92 strokes while Jayda Namken and Karli Weber shot a 106 to place 17th and a 108 to place 20th.

Tracy-Milroy-Balaton’s Piper Schulte and Taylor Munson placed 10th and 14th at 95 and 99, while Minneota was led by Ava Panka in 20th at 108.

Richter and Munson each received All-Conference honors.

Dawson-Boyd next competes at the Minnewaska Invitational at Minnewaska Golf Club on Friday at 11 a.m. Yellow Medicine East, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton, Lakeview, Canby and Minneota will next compete at Ortonville Municipal Golf Course on Friday at 10:30 a.m.

Lakeview boys finish as Camden champions

TYLER –The Lakeview boys golf team’s reign over the Camden Conference continued on Tuesday at Tyler Golf Club. The Lakers put together a solid performance behind the play of co-champions Lane Arends and Carson Boe to claim their fourth consecutive conference championship despite finishing third in the meet behind Lac qui Parle Valley and Central Minnesota Christian.

Arends and Boe tied for first place in the field of 64 at 2-over 73 on the day. Arends started his round steady, notching seven pars in his first eight holes, and found his rhythm down the stretch with birdies on holes 18, 3, 6 and 9.

Boe struggled early, going over par on three of his first four holes, but settled down from there. He went over par just once in his final 14 holes, including a 2-under performance on the front nine with birdies on 4 and 9.

Despite the success at the top of the individual leaderboard, Lakeview’s team score of 325 wasn’t enough to defend its title. LQPV tallied a team score of 315 while CMC placed second at 320.

The performance helped Boe retain his title as Camden Conference MVP. Arends was also selected to the All-Conference team.

Dawson-Boyd and Canby took fourth and fifth place in the 12-team event at 336 and 342, Yellow Medicine East took eighth at 350 and TMB placed 11th at 385.

Seventh grader Ledgen Javens placed 30th for Lakeview with 88 strokes while Trevor Tusberg and Koven Neuman tied as the Lakers’ final scorer at 91 strokes each.

Yellow Medicine East’s Cooper McCosh led the Sting with a 5-over 76, tying CMC’s Joseph Graves and LQPV’s Carson Besonen for third place. While he had some holes on which he struggled, the highs outweighed the lows; he had three front-nine birds and another two on the back nine.

TMB’s Alex Munson and Canby’s Lane Citrowske tied for seventh place at 7-over 78 while Dawson-Boyd’s Evan Mork and Drew Hjelmeland and Minneota’s Owen Dalager tied for ninth with 79 strokes each.

Munson, Mork, Hjelmeland, McCosh, Citrowske and Dalager were each selected to the All-Conference team. Other area selections included Canby’s Jack Abrahamson and Dawson-Boyd’s Carson Stratmoen.

Lakeview, Yellow Medicine East, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton, Minneota, Dawson-Boyd and Canby will next compete at Ortonville Municipal Golf Course on Friday at 10:30 a.m.

MCC girls win Red Rock Conference

WORTHINGTON — The Murray County Central girls golf team put together a team score of 366 at the final Red Rock Conference meet of the season at Great Life Golf & Fitness, winning the event and leading them to the season-long title of Red Rock Conference champions.

Ava Johnson tied Russell-Tyler-Ruthton’s Teigyn O’Leary for first place in the event at 13-over 84. Johnson birdied her third and sixth holes of the event with a par on hole 4, while O’Leary birdied hole 15.

Johnson and O’Leary finished tied for second on the Red Rock’s 10-player All-Conference list. Red Rock Central’s Jorga Brown was the individual girls champion, edging out the duo by two strokes at 257 after she placed fourth in Tuesday’s finale with a 20-over 91.

Natalie Einck, Rachael Huso and Lizzie Daniels tied for fifth to round out the MCC scorers in Tuesday’s meet, with all three making the All-Conference team. HLOF/WWG’s Ava Herding also made the list after placing 13th on Tuesday with a 99.

MCC’s cumulative team score for the season was 1471, beating out RTR’s 1588 and Mountain Lake Area’s 1616. None of the other four teams in the conference fielded a team score.

HLOF/WWG boys

finish 3rd in Red Rock

WORTHINGTON — Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda/Westbrook-Walnut Grove’s boys golf team shot a 353 at Tuesday’s conference finale to finish third in the Red Rock Conference.

Led by All-Conference selections Neil Kuehl and Mason Omen, the Coyotes compiled a cumulative score of 1399 on the season, falling behind Mountain Lake Area’s 1339 and Southwest Minnesota Christian/Edgerton’s 1366. MCC also placed fifth at 1468, Red Rock Central sixth at 1553 and Russell-Tyler-Ruthton seventh at 1579.

Ommen placed second in Tuesday’s meet with a 13-over 84 while teammates Connor Jackels and Neil Kuehl placed sixth and seventh at 86 and 87.

MCC’s Kaden Landsman made the all-conference team and shot a 90 on Tuesday to place 15th. Teammates Lucas Kuball and Jett Veldhuisen tied for 10th at 88.