Regular season competition begins this afternoon for the Washington Demon girls’ golf team. The Demons travel to the Cedar Crest Golf Course in Columbus Junction for a non-conference triangular dual with the Mid-Prairie Golden Hawks and the Columbus Wildcats.

Washington was hoping to begin regular season play last Thursday in the Keokuk Invitational tournament. Inclement weather in southeast Iowa forced the postponement of the tournament at the Lake Cooper Golf Course in Keouk. No makeup date for the tournament has been announced.

The Golden Hawk girls’ golf team aced their first meet of the season. Mid-Prairie hosted a triangular dual with the West Liberty Comets and the West Branch Bears at the Kalona Golf Club last Monday, and the Golden Hawks came away victorious in the dual with a team score of 216. The score was three strokes better than West Liberty, and 14 better than West Branch. Junior Allison Wertz was the medalist in the Golden Hawks’ first two meets of the season, and leads Mid-Prairie this season with an average nine hole score of 45.

This will be the second meet Columbus has hosted at Cedar Crest Golf Course. The Wildcats welcomed Southeast Iowa Super Conference member New London to Cedar Crest Golf Course for the teams’ season opener on March 30, falling 195 to 215 to the Tigers. Junior Kortney Orr enters the day as the Wildcats top golfer, posting an average nine hole score of 45 strokes. Fellow junior Sarah Todd is five shots off the pace, sitting second place on the team.

The meet tees off at 4 p.m. at Cedar Crest Golf Course in Columbus.