It was the first step of the postseason on Wednesday in New London for three area boys’ golf programs competing in a class 1A sectional at Deerwood Golf Club. 

The red hot Keota Eagles stayed just that on a blistering day to play by winning the meet with an 18-hole score of 356, nine strokes better than the host Tigers. New London and Wapello were the other two teams that qualified for next week’s districts. The Eagles’ Sawyer Stout bested the entire field by carding a meet medalist score of 84 while Caden Sprouse was third with 90 and Cole Kindred fourth with 91. The rest of the tallies included Colten Clarahan 91, Billie Kindred 97, and Evan Vittetoe 99. Winfield-Mt. Union missed out on advancing as a team by nine strokes with their score of 392 to place fourth. The top two individuals not on qualifying teams are able to move on to districts and the Wolves occupied those spots with Carter Loyd and Jake Edwards having matching rounds of 93. The rest of the team had Andrew Brown shoot a 96, Nick Crow 110, Griffin Humphreys 110, and Isaac Schurr 119. Columbus Community was also there and they finished fifth out of six with 448. Scores included Robert Coil 103, Cole Storm 104, Grant Watson 112, Ryan Coil 129, and Mason Heck 165. 

Keota, Loyd, and Edwards all move on to Monday’s district meet at Pleasant Valley in Iowa City.