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Kowboys, Lady Storm champs

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Friday, 15 October 2010 11:23

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News-Gazette Photos/Ken Jackson

The Osceola High boys display their OBC golf championship trophy. From left: Assistant Coach Larry Izzo, Blake Sorensen, Angelo Ghiarelli, Steven Fowler, Coach George Coffey (rear), Drew Heifner and Mark Clarke.

District tourneys beginning Monday for county squads

By Ken Jackson
Sports Writer
New team names will be inscribed into the Orange Belt Conference golf championship trophy.
Osceola's boys and Celebration's girls defeated the defending champions to take the season's first conference titles.
The Kowboys, led by individual medalist Steven Fowler's 4-over 75 at Kissimmee Bay Country Club, shot 336 to win a close battle over three-time defending champion Harmony by six shots.

Fowler, steady all day, narrowly beat the 76s of Harmony's Tyler Howes and St. Cloud's Caleb Sibley, who birdied the 16th and 17th holes and had a 20-foot birdie putt on 18 that just slid by the right edge of the cup.
“If you told me I'd shoot 75, I'd say that would be good enough to win,” Fowler, a senior, said. “I knew I had to go low, the team's depended on me to do that all year.”
Drew Heifner (84), Angelo Chiarelli (86) and Mark Clarke (91) filled out OHS's team score. Blake Sorensen shot 98.

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The OBC champion Celebration girls, from left: Natalie Benetti, Taylor Stone, Sarah Stellwag, Maranda Obenaur, Ashley Nelson, Lauren Adhav and Coach Robert Mouchet.

St. Cloud (352), Celebration (359), Liberty (412), Poinciana (424) and Gateway (542) followed in that order.
The girls tournament lacked drama. Celebration's Natalie Benetti shot 5-over 77 at Royal St. Cloud Golf Links that included an even-par 36 on the back nine to take the individual title by 11 shots over teammate Ashley Nelson.
Benetti said she didn't have a number in mind before she teed it up Monday.
“I don't think that way, I just focus on playing good and having a good round,” she said. “It definitely was a good round.
The Storm carded a team score of 366 that was 43 better than runner-up and defending champ Osceola. Nelson (88), Lauren Adhav (96) and Taylor Stone (105) contributed.
They were followed by St. Cloud (425), Harmony (445), Liberty (511) and Poinciana (519).
OHS boys coach George Coffey said he knew there'd be the drama of a close finish before the event started.
“We knew it'd be close here all season,” he said. “I told the kids that if they thought positive they'd play positive, and our No. 4 and 5 players picked it up.”
The top seven individuals and ties earned All-Conference honors. On the boys side, that included Fowler, Sibley, Howes, Celebration's Drew Pearson (77) and Noah Perez (82), St. Cloud's Jeff Weretka (82), Harmony's Chad Williams (84) and Heifner.
For the girls, Benetti, Nelson and Adhav earned plaques along with Harmony's Lauren Bishop (94). Charlie Muzeka (96) and Kiera Koroitamudu (99) of Osceola, Shelby Kessler (99) and Erika Dukes (99) of St. Cloud and Gateway's Sara Wu (99) rounded out the team.
The FHSAA postseason begins with Monday's district tournaments. The top three teams and the top three individuals not on those teams advance to the regional tournaments Oct. 25.
Celebration is in 2A District 9 and will play at Cleveland Heights (boys) and Bartow Golf Club (girls) on Monday. Girls coach Bobby Mouchet said he'd gladly take Monday's score and put it on the board next week.
“Bartow will be tough down there, they beat us in a tournament,” he said. “George Jenkins is always tough, too, but we want to play well ourselves and get through.”
Poinciana will play in the A-11 tournament at Falcon's Fire on Monday. The rest of the county tams are in 2A-16 and also will be close to home. The boys play at St. Cloud and the girls are at Harmony Golf Preserve.
Talented teams like Viera, Palm Bay, Bayside and Melbourne dot the coastal teams in the district.
“We want to shoot closer to 300,” Coffey said. “Viera and Palm Bay are always strong. We beat Bayside last week.”
Harmony Coach Jerry Piester said that finding some of the lost strokes that kept the Horns from a fourth straight OBC title should help them at the district tournament.
"Our team discussed how many we left out on the course; it's not the driver, it's the short game and putting," he said.
"We have a new mindset. I think we'll do well."