For just the eighth time in Portland High boy’s golf history, the boys’ varsity golf team qualified, as a team, to play in the “2021 MHSAA DIVISION 3 BOYS GOLF STATE FINALS!” The last time Portland High had team qualify for states was in 2016. With only the top three teams out of the eighteen schools playing in the Division 3 MHSAA Regional #16 moving on to compete at state finals. When the final individual and team scores were attested, it was the Raiders that narrowly outscored Bath Bees by ONE STROKE to capture the third and final regional qualifying place to move on to STATE FINAL play.

Played on the Timber Ridge Golf Course in East Lansing, the Raiders anticipated that they would be in the mix with six other teams in the hunt for one of the top three places to move on to states. The field of teams included: MIGCA #1 ranked Division 3 Hanover-Horton, perennial power and number eight ranked Jackson Lumen Christi, league rival Lansing Catholic Central, 2019 state finalists’ teams from Leslie and Napoleon along with a very good Bath team.

The third place qualifying team was determined on the last hole of the tournament, by the last finishing threesome group including golfers from Hanover-Horton, Bath and Portland. With Bath holding a narrow total team stoke lead heading into the final group’s final hole, the Bath golfer finished his eighteenth hole with a triple bogey eight (8) to the Portland golfer’s bogey six (6) which resulted in the Raiders finishing with a ONE STOKE better team score than Bath for third place. Had Bath and Portland finished tied, Portland would have also won the tournament tie-breaker fifth score by just one stroke.  

Hanover-Horton won the Regional with a score of 330. Leslie came in second with 340. Portland shot a 352 to Bath’s 353 for third place. Other team scores of interest:  Jackson Lumen Christi (371), Lansing Catholic Central (373), Pewamo-Westphalia (381) and Napoleon (385).

individually for the Raiders at Regionals: CJ Miller shot an 84,

Isaac Honsowitz and Luke Nobis each had rounds of 88, Carter Rosier finished with a 92 and Josh Rutkowski carded a 96. 

“Best of luck” to the Portland High boy’s golf team has they prepare to play in the two day thirty-six hole MHSAA Division 3 STATE FINALS to be played at The Meadows Golf Course on the campus of Grand Valley State University in Allendale on Friday, June 11th and Saturday, June 12^th.