Glacier golfers looking for more success at invitational

The Glacier boys will be going for their third straight team golf championship this fall today and Tuesday at the Glacier Invitational, while the Wolfpack girls will be looking to make it two straight.

Eight teams are scheduled to play in the 36-hole event.

Boys and girls will tee it up at 8:30 a.m. today at Indian Springs Ranch Golf Club in Eureka.

The final 18 is set for Big Mountain Golf Club on Tuesday. Action that day begins at 9 a.m.

Also competing are: Browning, Flathead, Hamilton, Missoula’s Big Sky, Hellgate and Sentinel, and Polson.

This event marks the halfway point on the schedule for most Class AA teams. All that remains on the calendar are the Helena Invitational, the Flatfish Invitational and the state tournament.

The Glacier boys opened the season with team titles at Great Falls and Missoula. Ryan Porch and Logan Iverson were medalists at those events.

The Glacier girls finished second to Billings West at Great Falls, but won the Missoula Invitational.

Teigan Avery was the medalist for Glacier at Missoula.

“The kids did well,” Glacier coach Rob Logsdon said.

“A long trip in four days.

“We knew we’d be good this year,” he said of his boys.

“We didn’t know what everybody else had.

“The girls (AA) is pretty wide open. I’m excited because we are getting a little better every year.”

Flathead’s boys are coming off a third-place showing in Missoula after placing 10th in Great Falls.

The Braves have been led by Max Applegate and Ryan Keenan. Both finished in the top 10 at Missoula.

The Flathead girls were 11th in Great Falls, but jumped up to a fifth-place finish in Missoula. Morgan Knutson has been the Bravettes leading scoring in both outings.

“Those two kids are awesome,” Flathead coach Jess Roper said of Applegate and Keenan.

“They both played solid ... are pretty darn steady.”

Roper said the girls are improving.

“Morgan is playing great,” he said of Knutson.

“She’s playing through it (a wrist injury).

“Geneva Zoltek is starting to come around.”

Roper has just six girls out, but is hoping that number will increase.