HUTCHINSON, Kan. (Catch it Kansas) – Maize’s Kinslea Jones beat the field by 3 strokes, shooting 3-under par in the two-day tournament to win the 6A state championship at Carey Park in Hutchinson, becoming just the third four-time state champion in KSHSAA state girls golf history.

Jones scored well on Day 2, finishing with five birdies. No other competitor finished with more than three. That included a birdie on No. 18, the final hole of her high school career. She is committed to continue her playing career at Kansas.

Maize finished fourth as a team.

At the 3-1A championship at Emporia Municipal Golf Course, Collegiate‘s Margaret Ulrich came up one stroke short of becoming the fourth four-time championship. She faced a one-stroke deficit following the first round, but she tied Rawlins County’s Amelia Bowles with a round of 5-over on Day 2, coming up just shy of history.

At 5A, Kapaun Mt. Carmel’s Ximena Sarinana completed her title defense to go 2-for-2 in her high school career after winning last year as a freshman.

After firing a 3-over first round to enter the second round tied for the lead, she went on to shoot 1-under in the second round to beat the field by two strokes.

Kapaun’s Emma Nguyen finished in 10th, one stroke ahead of teammate Maddy Cartwright.

Remi Hartley and Clair Runyan tied for 16th to polish off Kapaun’s solid showing and fifth-straight 5A team title by eight stokes over St. James.

Other state golf notes

6A: Garden City’s Brooke Savolt was the second-high area finisher, coming in 18th with a two-day total of 163.

5A: Andover‘s Regan Dusenberry finished as a runner-up ahead of Newton’s Naomi Koontz, who finished in third place.

Hays’ Jaycee Oakley earned a top-10 finished by finishing ninth.

Bishop Carroll’s Mary Bina also finished with a solid top-15 showing, placing 12th. She paced Carroll’s fifth-place finish as a team, just five strokes back of third-place St. Thomas Aquinas.

Aspen Colquhoun of Ark City finished in 14th place.

4A: Wellington kept pace with Topeka-Hayden, trailing by just four strokes after day one, but couldn’t close the gap in the second round, finishing second in the team standings ahead of McPherson and Augusta.

Wamego junior Addison Douglass beat the field by 10 strokes for a third-straight title.

Winfield‘s Lilli Sympson finished in second with back-to-back rounds of 76. McPherson‘s Brodie Kuhn, the regional champ, finished fifth, one stroke ahead of Wellinton’s Taryn Viramontes.

Augusta‘s Kaylee Cox (7th) and Buhler’s Anika Paulsrud (9th) also finished in the top 10.

Full results can be found at kshsaa.com.

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