SAN LEANDRO >> Freshman Matt Wotherspoon of the Kelseyville High School golf team went head to head with the big boys and the big schools competing Monday in the San Leandro Invitational at the par-72 Tony Lema Golf Course.
Wotherspoon fired a 7-over-par 79 to tie for the fifth lowest round of the day. Only seven players shot in the 70s,led by Michael Uy of Deer Valley with an even-par 72. One shot back was his teammate, Anthony Diaz, with 73.
Deer Valley topped the 12-team field with a score of 401 (combined low five individual rounds out of six). Bishop O’Dowd came in second with 425 and Alhambra was third with 432. Kelseyville had only four golfers and was incomplete.
“If we had a fifth golfer we probably would have been in the middle of the pack,” Kelseyville coach John Berry said.
Wotherspoon, the reigning Lake County Junior and Buckingham Summer Junior champion, fired a 3-over-par 38 on the front nine of his 79, which featured four birdies.
“A solid round for a freshman, especially given the field,” Berry said of the tournament’s predominantly large school makeup.
Also for Kelseyville, Joe Tannous carded a 97, Sophie Sells had 98 and Israel Gonzales finished with a 113.
Golfers enjoyed some of the best weather at this particular tournament in years, according to Berry, who said temperatures were in the 70s with only a one- or two-club wind.
Kelseyville returns to action Wednesday at Adam Springs on Cobb Mountain for a Coastal Mountain Conference South match at 2 p.m. Clear Lake and Middletown are among the teams taking part. On Thursday the Knights play the CMC North teams — Willits, Fort Bragg, Point Arena and Mendocino — at Hidden Valley Lake beginning at 1 p.m.
