WINDSOR — With only one match remaining, the Kelseyville High School golf team could make Coastal Mountain Conference South history on Tuesday at the Oakmont West Course in Santa Rosa.
The eighth and final CMC South match of the year is all that stands between coach John Berry”s Knights and a perfect season. After beating the other six South teams on Wednesday at the tough par-72 Windsor Golf Club layout, Kelseyville improved to 42-0 in the conference standings. No team has ever gone undefeated although Berry”s 2001 club came close, finishing 48-1, and that one loss came in the final match of the regular season.
“We”re playing for history,” Berry said of a possible 48-0 regular season.
Windsor Golf Club provided the CMC South golfers with all they could handle. A one-time stop on the old Nationwide Tour, the course is challenging for even the most seasoned golfers.
“There”s a reason the pros used to play here,” Berry said. “It”s a good, tough meat and potatoes course.”
Only one golfer, Rincon Valley Christian sophomore Ty Cazet, came within reach of par, shooting a 1-over 73. And only three other golfers shot in the 70s Middletown”s Doug Quinones (78), St. Vincent”s Derek Brown (79) and Kelseyville”s Brent Hamilton (79).
Other low rounds went to Kelseyville”s Darrin Sullivan (81) and Hipolito Perez (82), and Middletown”s Mitch D”Amico (83).
Quinones and Perez had three birdies apiece.
In team scoring, Kelseyville finished with 413 to easily beat out runner-up St. Vincent at 432. Middletown was next at 466, followed by St. Helena at 480, Tomales at 524, Calistoga at 532 and Rincon Valley Christian at 534. Along with earning their seventh CMC victory in as many matches, the Knights clinched the 2007 championship. St. Vincent also clinched second place and an automatic berth in the upcoming sectional playoffs.
Still up for grabs are three individual at-large berths for golfers not on the first- or second-place teams. Going into next week”s regular-season finale at Oakmont West, Middletown”s Quinones, Rincon Valley”s Cazet and St. Helena”s Peter Larson are the frontrunners.
