Sacred Heart coach Tom Dey had some words of wisdom just moments after his defending champion Gremlins carded a 318 to vault to the top of the Class 1 state tournament leaderboard at Sedalia Country Club: “I don’t think they give out any trophies for the first day.”
Including a 75 from Jared Dey, a 76 from David Baldwin, an 82 from John Beykirch and a pair of 85s from Garrett Kelchner and Alan Bankovich, the collective 38-over-par score put the Gremlins nine strokes ahead of Kaysinger Conference foe Tipton’s second-place 327.
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