Canfield, Poland golfers qualify for district

Boardman’s Vivo, Niles’ Taylor also will compete in district

Staff report

Canfield High School’s girls golf team won the Division I sectional tournament on Monday at Tamer Win in Cortland. The Cardinals won with 334. Kent Roosevelt came in second with 346, Notre Dame Cathedral Latin earned third place with 349 and Poland had a score of 357 to qualify.

Jenna Vivo from Boardman shot an 82 and is an individual qualifier along with Niles’ Olivia Taylor who shot an 86.

Leading Canfield were Gillian Cerimele with a 76, Hannah Keffler with an 80, Carmel Cerimele with an 89 and Victoria Messuri with a 92.

Carly Ungaro led Poland with an 86. The other Bulldogs’ scorers were Jenna Jacobson 88, Marlie McConnell 89, and Elena Cammack and Gianna Myers with 94

District will be competed at the Legends of Massillon on Oct. 10.

Boardman’s boys team will compete in the Division I sectional today at Tannenhauf Golf Club in Alliance. The district meet will be at Pine Hills on Oct. 11.

Division II

District competition is today for the boys at Windmill Lakes in Ravenna.

Local teams competing will be Poland, Ursuline and Cardinal Mooney.

Girls will be competing at Tam O’Shanter and the local teams are Cardinal Mooney, Columbiana, Lakeview and Champion.

Individuals who qualified are Kelly Wlodarsky from Ursuline, Madison Horavth from Springfield and Gabrielle DiCesare from South Range.

“Our district has some really solid competition, including regional competition like NDCL, Hawken and Orange as well as area teams like Mooney, South Range and Poland,” said Matt Morgan, Ursuline boys and girls golf coach.

Ursuline’s boys golf team came in second place during the sectional at Windmill Lakes.

This is the second straight year that Ursuline’s boys team and a member of the girls team has qualified for district.

Morgan said the teams put in a lot of time and hard work to prepare themselves from a physical and mental standpoint.

Ursuline is not in a conference, so the schedule is mostly dual matches with teams out of the area.

The Irish also compete in as many 18-hole invitationals.

“It’s no secret that the best way for high school golfers to prep for events like sectionals, districts and state is to get consistent instruction from an experienced instructor from an early age and to compete in as many regional spring and summer junior events as possible,” Morgan said.

The top three teams and individuals will qualify for state.

division iii

Local boys teams competing in the district Wednesday at Tannenhauf are Brookfield, Bristol, Warren JFK, and Columbiana. Zavier Bokan from McDonald and Jake Sylak from Mineral Ridge qualified as individuals.