Elite baseball player Tylan Ducherer can also swing with the best of them on the golf course.
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The Grade 10 student from the Lloydminster Comprehensive Barons won the boys’ division in the season-opening Wainwright high school golf tournament on Friday, Sept. 5.
Ducherer’s 77 was the lowest score overall. He also sank the longest putt in the tournament.
Carson Bergerud, Matthew Christiansen and Emma Clark. Submitted photo
Second place in the boys’ division went to another Grade 10 upstart from Lloyd — Logan Nelson of the Holy Rosary Raiders. Nelson carded an 80 on the day. (For more on the Raiders’ banner showing, see Page 28 of this week’s Meridian Source).
Before he began his Lloyd Comp studies this month, Ducherer spent the summer playing Alberta provincial league baseball with the 15U AA Lloydminster Prairie Pirates.
He leads the Lloyd Comp contingent bound for Saskatchewan high school district golf championships next Wednesday (Sept. 17) at Meadow Lake.
The Barons sent nine representatives — eight boys and one girl — to the Wainwright tournament. That group included Lloydminster junior golfers like Drew Mazzei and Matthew Bailey. Mazzei played in the Saskatchewan junior provincials this summer on Lloyd’s city course.
At the high school level, Lloyd Comp’s golf coaches are Debbie Hamilton and Danielle Crossley.
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