2A Boys Golf Region 1: Monte Vista Claims Team Championship, 3 Top-5 Individual Golfers

COLORADO CITY – At the Colorado High School Activities Association’s 2A boys golf region 1 regional, Monte Vista ran away with the team championship thanks, in part, to placing three golfers among the top-five individual finishers, which helped the Pirates score 12-over 225 as a team.

Kaden Mellott (2-over 73), Liam Ellithorpe (4-over 75) and Connor Mellott (6-over 77) represented Monte Vista in the top five.

The Swink Lions finished as the runner-up (30-over 243) and also placed three golfers in the top-10. Senior Boz Zavala (8-over 79), Noah Pearson (10-over 81) and Nick Paolucci (12-over 83) placed seventh, ninth, and tenth, respectively.

The individual regional champion didn’t represent either Monte Vista or Swink though, as Las Animas senior Damien Baca (1-under 70) earned the top spot among the individual golfers

The remaining top-10 individual golfers were Calhan’s Patrick Glaser (5-over 76), who placed fourth, and Fowler’s Jedadiah Ballard (7-over 78) and Hagen McCuistion (9-over 80), who placed sixth and eighth, respectively.

CHSAA’s 2024 2A Boys Golf State Championship will be played at The Club at Rollins Hills in Golden, on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 7 and 8.