Postseason action is next for the area’s high school golfers.
Both the girls and boys golf teams from Northeast Range/Ely will take part in the Section 7A meet, a twoday event that starts Tuesday at McGregor.
The teams’ best chance for advancement may come in the girls event, as senior Cylvia DeBeltz of Ely guns for another state tournament berth.
DeBeltz enters the section meet on the heels of placing second in the Iron Range Conference meet, and she has regularly been the top Class A golfer in a series of regular season events. She has also already earned All-Iron Range Conference recognition.
As the regular season winds down, the NRE boys took part in a nine-hole event Tuesday at Hoyt Lakes.
The top NRE finisher was Ely senior Rhett Johnson, who placed 30th overall with a 49.
In 40th place and 12 strokes back of Johnson with a 61 was senior Tyler Fritz.
Rounding out a limited NRE lineup was junior Mason Spate-Kurnava, who took 41st with a 66.
NRE did not have enough golfers to post a team score, and Greenway/ Nashwauk-Keewatin beat International Falls by six strokes to win the team title. Paxton Sivonen of International Falls and GNK’s Jedd Benson tied for medalist honors with a 38.
• At the May 14 Rock Ridge Invitational, NRE placed 14th as a team.
Johnson paced NRE and took 19th with an 18-hole 82.
Next up was senior Jayden Zemke, who fired a 91 and placed 54th.
Following for NRE were Ethan Nickolson (84th, 119), Tyler Fritz (87th, 126) and James McCarter (88th, 156).
