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Coronavirus threat shuts down PHS golf season
IN THE CUP! Plains junior Duncan Chisholm putts at Wild Horse Golf Course during Plains' high school tourney there in 2019. Chisholm and fellow junior Kaylee Cole both qualified for the State C tournament last spring and would be team leaders for Plains if the season were still to be played.
Plains golf coach Lisa Brown was in her own little world Tuesday morning.
“I’m living the dream,” she said. “Sitting here in an empty classroom with my life-sized Larry Bird cutout for company.
“This is the level I have reached after three weeks without having kids in school.”
Brown now does her solitary teaching duties by internet, a far less satisfying form of educational communication.
Although classroom loneliness has driven her to companionship with an inanimate, ancient basketball player who can’t jump, what Brown rues the most is the fact that she will not be able to coach her golf team, along with her fellow head coach in Plains Don Stamm, at least anytime too soon.
“We were looking really good, had eight days of practice in, 13 kids out,” she said. “We had some kids put in the time to get better and were looking forward to how we would do this spring. But now we are not sure if or when we will be able to play.”
Armed with enough golfers for scoring teams with both the boys (eight players) and the girls (five), Brown felt this could have been a breakout kind of year for Plains golf. Three golfers are required per team in the State C tournament.
Juniors Duncan Chisholm with the boys and Kaylee Cole with the girls led the Plains golf teams last spring with each earning berths in the 2019 State C tourney, where both reportedly played well. Brown said both team leaders were working hard on their games already this spring.
Seniors Treydon Bouillette and Wiley Scribner, juniors Parker Flock, Nick Gumm, Gabe Gamboa and Kade Pardee and freshman Tyson Brouillette round out the Plains boys team. Senior Miera Loberg, junior McKenna O’Lexey and sophomores Grace Horton and Lexa Craft are the other girls golfing for Plains.
After a few years of struggling with numbers, Brown was looking forward to her team enjoying some links camaraderie and success this season. Instead she spends her time talking strategy to a lifeless Larry Bird. And ol’ No. 33 never answers, he just stares off into space, obviously living the dream.
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