RAPID CITY - Sioux Falls Washington junior Kyle Cooper made par on the second hole of a playoff to take medalist honors, and the Warriors also rolled to the team title during the Greater Dakota Conference high school boys golf tournament on Monday at the par-72 Meadowbrook Golf Course.

Cooper and teammate Tyler Pridey, the team's No. 5 player, each carded 3-over-par 75s on a warm, sunny and calm day at the 'Brook. Sturgis sophomore Kyle Kopplin missed the playoff by a shot and had to settle for third after a 4-over 76.

In the playoff, Cooper and Pridey both made par on the par-4 first hole, before Cooper's par 3 on No. 2 was enough for the victory.

"Kyle made a great putt for par (on the first playoff hole) to force a second hole, and at that point there was a little momentum shift," Washington head coach Eric Smith said. "But, I was glad for both of them, they both played really well."

Cooper, who began his round on the first hole during the shotgun start, opened with a 1-under 35 on the front nine, but he said he did not play his best golf coming in.

"Well, (I didn't play) as well as you might think," he noted. "I played really well for about the first 13 holes, but I wasn't happy with the way I closed it out. Overall, it was a mediocre round. The course was playing tough today."

The defending conference champion Warriors had four players break 80 - Trevor Mathison and Parker Hanson finished in a tie for seventh with three other players after 79s - en route to a team score of 308, 18 strokes ahead of second-place Sioux Falls Roosevelt (326).

"Yeah, we played well," Smith added.

"It's a tough course to score real well on, and we had some consistency all the way up and down the line-up. So, it was fun."

Smith said his team has been shooting around 310 in a lot of their tournaments this year, and that having four players shoot in the 70s was nothing new.

"We're pretty much that way, it's just a matter of who it's going to be," he noted. "Like today, Pridey is our No. 5 guy and he shoots 75."

Rapid City Stevens ended up in third at 327.

"Well, I'm not real happy with it, but it's not bad for this golf course from the blue tees," Stevens head coach Phil Hunt said. "I think we're certainly capable of a little better. Today was the ideal day if we were going to do anything.

"We got three decent scores, and we're still missing a fourth, you know. It's kind of come from different people all year long, so hopefully one of these days we can figure it out and get the four best."

Raider junior Brogan Pappel tied for seventh with a 79.

Sioux Falls O'Gorman shot 330 and took fourth, and Sturgis wound up in fifth with a 337. Sioux Falls Lincoln (357), Rapid City Central (365) and Spearfish (383) finished sixth through eighth, respectively.

Individually, senior Carson Wika was the lone Spartan to break 100. He carded a 77 and tied for fourth with Patriot John Vining. The Rough Riders' Brian Wynia was sixth at 78, while the Knights' Dylan Deschepper and Sam Haar were also in the five-way tie for seventh at 79.

The Cobblers' top finisher was junior Trevor Kautzman, who tied for 16th with an 82.

Contact Welsh at 394-8430 or sean.welsh@rapidcityjournal.com