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          By James Costello —Sports Editor

The Pilot News

FRANKLIN — Time is on Quentyn Carpenter’s side. It just wasn’t Wednesday.      The Triton sophomore’s start was delayed five hours due to weather at the second round of the 75th Annual IHSAA Boys State Golf Finals, and he struggled to follow up his even-par 72 first round with a 7-over 79 at The Legends of Indiana Golf Course to slip from 19th to 24th in Franklin.      “It was a long day today,” he said. “I didn’t go to sleep or anything; I just tried to stay awake during the whole break. I hung around the Warsaw guys and just tried to have fun with them and talk and have a good time. I got out there today and I started out good. I was playing good today with the conditions the way they were and just couldn’t finish strong at the end.”      “I wouldn’t say I was tired,” he added. “I came down the stretch and I just didn’t make the shots I wanted to make. I hit the driver everywhere today and the irons. I putted really well throughout the playoffs and today I just didn’t putt well at all, and unfortunately today was the wrong day for it.”      Originally scheduled for a 7:30 a.m. tee time, Carpenter was forced to wait around until well into the afternoon in the sloppy conditions. He double-bogeyed No. 5 a second straight day at The Legends but unlike his opening round added double bogeys on 3 and 13. His only birdie came on the 364-yard par 4 14th hole after posting a trio of birdies to advance out of the first round Tuesday.      “It did hurt,” said Triton head golf coach and Carpenter’s father Jack Carpenter of Wednesday’s delay. “He had the first tee time at 7:30, so we’re here at 6:30 this morning. Then we finally got him off I think at 12:30.      “I told him that as we walked up to the first tee ‘With the delay that we had today and with it being rainy, it’s going to be about your mental approach just as much as it is the physical game.’ He got off to an OK start. He saved himself, made a couple long putts and then he misses a couple short putts that were for birdie. So a 38 could have probably been 36 or it probably could have been 40 also, so it kind of evens out.”      The good news for Quentyn is that he’s still got plenty of golf ahead of him.      He won a two-hole playoff to advance out of the Homestead Regional last Thursday in the IHSAA’s first year of eliminating the rule for automatic advancement for any third-place individual ties in the state series. The Trojans No. 1 finished out his freshman season tied for 19th, becoming the first Triton golfer to make the second day cut at state after advancing with his team last year. He replicated that feat with a gutsy, down-to-the-wire par performance Tuesday before slipping five places on the leaderboard Wednesday.      “He’s the only kid in our school history that’s made it to the second day (at state), and he’s been able to do it twice as a freshman and sophomore,” said Jack. “I know he was disappointed because at one point he was sitting at sixth if you follow the online scoring. If he’d have shot even today, he would have been top 10 easily, because with the weather the scores were much higher today. He’s disappointed, but it’s going to make him work harder. “      “I didn’t play the way I wanted to play, but I’ve got two more years left at Triton and a lot of golf ahead of me, and hopefully I can become a better golfer over these two years,” Quentyn said. “We’ll see what I can do; hopefully, I can get back down here and win some big things and make some history.”      A two-year varsity point guard for Triton basketball who helped lead the Trojans to the 2010-11 Class A State Finals prior to the start of the golf season, Quentyn recently decided to forego hoops to focus exclusively on his golf game. He’ll start off-season play on Friday when he plays in the Indiana Open Championship qualifier.      “I spoke to (Triton basketball coach Jason Groves) and told him this is what I want to be,” said Qunetyn. “Today left a bad taste in my mouth, and I just want to get it out as soon as possible. I want to get out and get another tournament in.      “It’ll be a big summer for me, and hopefully I can do some things.”

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By James Costello —Sports Editor

The Pilot News

FRANKLIN — Whatever happens next, it's already one for the history books.Triton sophomore Quentyn Carpenter survived a rough stretch at the end of his round at The Legends to post an even-par 72 and make the cut out to the second day at the 75th Annual IHSAA Boys State Golf Finals in Franklin Tuesday.      Today's round represents the fourth state finals round for Carpenter, who made the cut to the second day in his freshman season last year after advancing with the Triton team in its program-first state berth. Already the only Triton golfer to have made the second-day cut at the finals, the sophomore has now done so twice.      "It's pretty good. My dad told me this morning that I can make history for Triton golf because there are a few guys that have made it down here individually to the first day, but no one has made it twice," said a smiling Carpenter. "I'm the only one who has made it to the second day, and I've done it twice." Carpenter started on the back nine at The Legends and parred every hole to enter the turn at an even 36. He posted birdies on No. 1 and 4 and parred 2 and 3 in between to enter the final five holes with a safe 2-under-par score but gave up both strokes when he hooked his tee shot on No. 5 out of bounds and into the trees and wound up posting a double bogey on the hole.      He birdied the long par 5 No. 6 but again he surrendered that stroke right back with a bogey on a short par 3 7 despite scrambling with a beautiful chip out of the thick rough following an errant tee shot. With no more strokes to give, the heady young Triton top-flighter parred out the remaining two holes to grind out an even-par 72 and qualify for today's second round, a gutsy performance coming on the heels of a Homestead Regional where he won a two-hole playoff just to grab the final individual berth out to state.      "He's played golf enough to know that you're going to catch bad breaks," said Carpenter's acting coach and cousin T.J. Carpenter, who made the cut out to state for Triton as an individual in 2008. "He had a couple good breaks earlier in the day and he knew that. He came up to the tee after making double, and I said 'You know what? It all evens out at the end of the day. This is where you find out whether players are good or not.'"      "Coming down the stretch I had my cousin with me, and he just told me 'Get pars, get pars' and that even pars should hopefully do it for me," said Quentyn. Carpenter is the son of Triton head coach Jack Carpenter, who took a back seat to nephew and Ball State golfer T.J. at Tuesday's meet, a strategy the family members employed for Quentyn's second round in 2010 as well.      "It's still nerve-wracking watching him as a parent," said Jack. "I'm still trying to coach him along and know exactly what the game plan is between him and I and T.J. Every once in awhile he overrules us, but for the most part he stayed with what we talked about as far as hitting off the tee.      "It's fun to sit back and give it to T.J. even though I'm still trying to tell T.J. things," he continued with a smile. "I told him 'I don't know why I'm talking to you because you know exactly what you're doing.' I think it just makes me feel better."      Quentyn enters today's final round in a 10-way tie for 19th place. He wound up tied for 14th on last year's final leaderboard.      "Today I shot even par. My goal was no higher than 74, but my score could've been a lot better," said Quentyn. "I hiccuped on a few holes and made some bad scores but tomorrow I expect at least the same thing if not better."          

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Above, the Trojans wait to tee off at Orchard Ridge Country Club during the Homestead Boys Golf Regional Thursday in Fort Wayne. Photo by: D. Bethel

  Triton finishes out team season along with CMA at regional

By James Costello --Sports Editor

The Pilot News

  FORT WAYNE -- The preparation is all.

     When Quentyn Carpenter played poorly during his practice round at Orchard Ridge Wednesday, he asked his father and Triton head boys golf coach Jack Carpenter to take him out for another round. Those extra holes might have paid big dividends for him Thursday, as the sophomore earned a three-way playoff victory in two holes at the Homestead Boys Golf Regional Thursday to survive and advance individually to the state finals next Tuesday.

     While Triton finished its team season in fourth place, one spot away from a second consecutive state finals appearance. Carpenter sunk his six-foot par putt on Number 2 at Orchard Ridge to clinch the third individual ticket out to next week's meet at The Legends in Franklin.

     "He works so hard," said Jack Carpenter. "People probably don't understand the kind of time he puts into it. He wakes up at 6:30 in the morning, and he's in a routine. We played 18 holes here yesterday, and he said 'Dad, I played like crap, take me over to Sycamore hills.' So I took him over to Sycamore Hills for two hours. I looked at him, and I said 'You're going to be worn out,' and he said 'No dad, I'm not a weenie,' He's just a tough-minded kid. This is a good sport for him because he's a grinder."

     "It's just about surviving and advancing," said Quentyn. "The first ball I didn't hit too well, but I was hoping they would fault too, and they did. We got to this hole (2), and I just made the shots, I guess."

     It was the first year such a playoff was necessary as the low three individuals from non-advancing teams, including all ties for third low score, have historically been guaranteed advancement in the IHSAA boys golf tournament. But the rule change was announced just prior to this year's 75th annual state series as tourney fields around the state were becoming too crowded and throwing off tee times throughout the series.

     Quentyn didn't let the new standard get inside his head, however, as he grabbed the last spot out to The Legands, where he finished in a tie for 14th as a freshman last year.

     "Of course I'm a kid and I'm thinking 'Why do we got to do this or why we got to do that?'" he said. "But I can't change the rule do anything about it, so I've just go to play."

     While Quentyn advances after earning a second-round cut at last year's state finals meet, the Trojans fell short of their team goal of a second straight berth to the big meet after winning a program-first sectional championship at Warsaw last week. The squad will bid goodbye to seniors Griffyn Carpenter and Taran Kennedy, who helped lead the team to four-peat Marshall County Tournament championships as well as three of four Northern State Conference titles and this year's sectional championship finish.

     "It just wasn't meant to be this year I guess, but as I told Griffyn and Taran, they've had great careers for us," said Jack Carpenter. "They've done the program so well. I think our last four years they were 44-4 in duals and quals. They've got nine or 10 tournaments they've won, had a state tournament appearance, been to the regionals three times. The rest of our school's history wouldn't match it, so while we're disappointed in today, we're definitely pleased in how they brought the program around."

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FORT WAYNE —Triton sophomore Quentyn Carpenter advances to State next Wednesday by driving in the third lowest individual score at the Homestead Regional with a 75 on the par 71 Orchard Ridge Golf Course. 

  Team Results

Canterbury               303

Homestead               303

Warsaw                      307

Triton                         312

Northridge                313

Culver Military          318

Fairfield                     320

Carroll                        320

Bishop Dwenger      322

DeKalb                       333

Northwood                336

Concordia                 344

   Top 5 Individuals

Tyler Ostrum - Warsaw - 70

Trent Van Horn - Canterbury 72

Jon Finley and Tom Kocks - Homestead - 73

Logan McBride - Northridge - 74

Michael Sharp - East Noble - 74

   Top 3 Individuals Without a Team

Logan McBridge - Northridge - 74

Michael Sharp - East Noble - 74

Quentyn Carpenter - Triton - 75

  Triton Scores

Quentyn Carpenter   75

Griffyn Carpenter      76

Ryan Rapp                 80

Taran Kennedy           81

Chandler Slone           92

  To advance to state: Top 3 teams plus; Top 3 low individuals, excluding those individuals who advance with a team.

Tigers, Carpenter Advance To State

Warsaw finishes third at regional; Triton sophomore wins two-hole playoff

By Dale Hubler

Times-Union Sports Editon

FORT WAYNE--The only other local player to advance was Triton sophomore Quentyn Carpenter, who shot 75 and had to win a three-person,two-hole playoff to claim the final individual berth from Thursday’s regional. Northridge’s Logan McBride and East Noble’s Michael Sharp both shot 74 and advanced individually, while Carpenter had to go to overtime and eliminate Garrett’s Bennette Reike and Fairfield’s Brian Ulrich. “Quentyn has been working so hard,” said Triton coach Jack Carpenter, also Quentyn’s father. “People probably don’t realize the amount of time he puts in. Golf is a great sport for him, because he’s a grinder.” Triton, which won the program’s first sectional championship last week by beating Warsaw via a fifth man tiebreaker at Stonehenge, finished fourth has a team Thursday with as core of 312.

IHSAA Girls State Meet - 6/4/2011 Indiana University Event 14 Girls Discus Throw ======================================================================= State: * 165-04 5/6/1999 Stacy Martin - Edgewood Name Year School Finals Points ======================================================================= Finals 1 Wertman, Cassie 11 Southridge 143-04 10 124-10 133-08 133-00 142-10 FOUL 143-04 2 McClinton, Nakel 11 Merrillville 137-00 8 137-00 133-05 130-07 FOUL FOUL 131-11 3 Carter, Carlynn 12 Avon 135-11 7 130-00 122-08 FOUL 129-04 135-11 129-09 4 Zink, Kayla 12 Fort Wayne Snider 135-10 6 135-05 135-10 FOUL 135-02 123-02 FOUL 5 Meeks, Chelsie 10 Rensselaer Central 135-05 5 120-11 121-00 125-00 118-02 135-05 119-11 6 Montgomery, Mercedes 12 N. Central 132-08 4 112-04 122-00 132-08 131-09 FOUL 120-01 7 Hickman, Farin 12 Whiteland Community 131-11 3 108-03 126-00 131-11 127-02 FOUL 124-09 8 Davenport, Liesl 12 Huntington North 131-01 2 129-09 122-08 131-01 127-08 117-08 127-11 9 Mull, Tierney 12 Jeffersonville 129-05 1 126-09 129-05 122-02 100-07 119-08 113-10 10 Ison, Victoria 12 Bloomington North 127-11 105-06 121-03 125-03 127-11 115-04 117-08 11 Hazlewood, Micaela 09 Linton-Stockton 124-10 122-07 124-10 116-05  

12 Howdeshell, Megan 11 Triton 124-08 FOUL 119-00 124-08  

Triton sophomore Quentyn Carpenter watches as his putt rolls to the hole en route to winning medalist honors at Friday’s sectional by shooting a 1-under 70 at Stonehenge.

Photo by Gary Nieter.

Triton (304)

70      Quentyn Carpenter         1st      Medalist

77      Ryan Rapp

78      Griffyn Carpenter

79      Chandler Slone                             

80      Taran Kennedy

Warsaw (304)

73      Tyler Ostrom

75      Jon Schram

78      Eric Tandy

78      Tim Ahlersmeyer

82      Bennett Hollar

Culver Academy (320)

Plymouth (350)

Wawasee (358)

85      Luke Jackson

90      Derek Zurcher

91      Josh Mattie

92      Tyler Hare

94      Ben Jackson

Northfield (361)

Tippecanoe Valley (363)

87      Tanner Shepherd

89      Kevin Summe  

93      Taylor Breeden                         

94      Teddy Shepherd

94      Bray Swihart

Culver Community (365)

Bremen (367)

Southwood (369)

Wabash (370)

Manchester (430)

92      Tyler Watson

108     Whitaker

113     Aaron Johnson

117     Calvin Barnett

137     Kiowa Harrell

Note – top three teams, as well as top three individuals not on an advancing team, will play in the regional Thursday at Orchard Ridge Country Club in Fort Wayne. Advancing Individuals – Josh Unger (Northfield) 80, Taylor Fanning (Bremen) 81, Jake Shaw (Southwood) 81

  Trojans Topple Tigers To Win First Sectional Title

Triton sophomore Quentyn Carpenter wins medalist honors with a 1-under 70 at Stonehenge

Times-Union

Dale Hubler

   WARSAW -- If he wasn’t Warsaw’s coach, Ben Barkey said he would be happy the Triton Trojans won Friday’s boys golf sectional at Stonehenge.

Triton's Ryan Rapp

Photo by: Margo Lemler

Triton (300)

72         Quentyn Carpenter         1st      Medalist

75         Ryan Rapp                      2nd

76         Taran Kennedy               3rd

77         Chandler Slone               4th

84         Dane Kennedy                5th

92         Griffyn Carpenter          10th

New Prairie (344)

84         Shawn Cox                      5th

85         Blake Bennett                  7th

86         CJ Kowalski                     8th

89         Adam Cox                       9th

95         Ben Pietrzak                  11th

112       Connor Metcalf             12th

Trojans' Golf Team Improves Record to 15-0

Times-Union

At the Boys Track & Field Regional in Kokomo Triton's Trent Stackhouse placed 14th in the 1600 meter with a time of 5:00.07 and Jake Tutorow threw the discus 143 feet 0 inches to place 9th.

1600: 1. Tyler Wynn (Goshen) 4:21.50, 2. Joey Zielinski (SB St. Joe’s) 4:21.76, 3. Adrian Glover (Kokomo) 4:21.82, 5. Jacob Poyner (Warsaw) 4:25.96, 9. Trevor Callahan (Warsaw) 4:40.94, 14. Trent Stackhouse (Triton) 5:00.07