The Hanna Yellow Jackets were not ranked at the start of last season and used the lack of attention to help motivate the team to win the AAAAA state title.

This year, the Yellow Jackets have been the team to beat in AAAAA. They have not taken their foot off the gas since the start of last season and appear ready to zoom off with another state championship.

Hanna easily qualified for the Upper State AAAAA tournament, shooting a 282 total to finish 19 shots in front of Mauldin.

If you need another measure of the quality of the Hanna team keep this in mind, Caden Olsommer had the fifth-best score for the Yellow Jackets.

High School tournaments only count the best four scores for the team total. Olsommer shot a 76 to tie for seventh place.

The Hanna golfer made the All-Tournament team, but the rest of the team shot better than he did and his score was not needed to crown Hanna the Region champion again.

Erick Erienkeuser shot a 4- under par at Cobb’s Glen to win the individual Region championship.

Hanna will be back at their home course next week for the AAAAA Upper State qualifying tournament.

The state AAAAA Championship will be played at Lexington County Club on May 12-13th

Region III AAAAA Championship

5A Region 3 at Edgewater Golf Club. Nation Ford 293 – Fort Mill 294 – Blythewood 295 – Spring Valley 305.

Region Players of the Year Justin Wosje (NF) – 69 Grant Paolucci (BW) 69 Top individual not on qualifying team: Kyle Leary (Clover) 76

Wren wins Region III AAA Championship

The Wren Hurricanes have been the top ranked AAA team in the state all year and will take the ranking along with the Region III championship with them into the Upper State AAA Championship to be played at Cherokee Valley Golf Club on May 6th,

Region 2-3A Tournament Southern Oaks Golf Course Par 72

Wren: 287 – Powdersville 337, Palmetto – 349, Fountain Inn -366, Belton-Honea Path -392.

All-Region Player of the Year Dylan Park (Wren): 67

All-Region Tournament Team Eli Clevenger (Wren) 69 Garrett Gillespie (Wren) 72 Hampton Yarborough (Wren) 79 Rece Magruder (Palmetto) 79 Jon Maxwell (Palmetto) 81 Nate Porter (Powdersville) 81 Davis Merritt (Wren) 82

Region I AAA Championship, played at Windsor at Walhalla

Daniel 325 – Pendleton -331, Seneca – 332, Walhalla – 332, West Oak – 388, Crescent -463.

Medalist: Jack Williams (Walhalla) 73

4A Region 2 Championship at Links O’ Tryon

Riverside- 299, Eastside- 301, Greer- 322, Wade Hampton- 342, Laurens-363.

Individuals Brennan Kelly (Champion)- 71 (RS) Matthew Morgan- 73 (RS) Brad Baldree- 73 (ES) Beau Lewis- 74 (ES) Lane Wilson- 74 (RS) Tucker Jones- 75 (ES) Benjamin Sanders- 76 (WHHS) John Monday- 76 (Greer)

Top teams advance to the Upper State Qualifying tournament at Edgewater Golf Club in Lancaster on Monday May 6th at 9 am.

AAAA Region I Championship at the Links at Stony Point

Greenwood – 285. Greenville – 304, Pickens – 335, Easley – 343, Westside – 368, Berea – 409.

Tournament medalist and Region Player of the Year is Adam Knox with a 69.

All-Region Adam Knox (Greenwood) – 69 Cameron Addis (Greenwood) – 70 Tip Price (Greenville) – 71 Keegan Farmer (Greenwood) – 72 Bryson McCurry (Greenwood) – 74 Hugh Faulkner (Greenville) – 76 Charlie Warren (Greenville) 76 Josh Brown (Greenwood) – 76

Top teams advance to the Upper State Qualifying tournament at Edgewater Golf Club in Lancaster on Monday May 6th at 9 am.