Spring All Peninsula 2011 - Peninsula Daily News

10 Friday, June 17, 2011
All-Peninsula Spring 2011
Peninsula Daily News
All-Peninsula Boys Golf
Mason Moug
Chimacum
Senior — MVP
After leading the
Cowboys to a
Nisqually League title,
Moug took fourth in
his third visit to the
1A state tourney.
Ryan O’Mera
Sequim
Junior
Match medalist in
six Olympic League
matches, O’Mera averaged
37.9 strokes per
nine holes and took
eighth at 2A state.
Cody Piper
Port Townsend
Sophomore
PT’s top scorer
— 37.9-stroke
average for 9 holes —
reached 1A state for
the second year in a
row, finishing ninth.
Sean Anderson
Port Townsend
Senior
The Redskins’ No. 2
would have been tops
on many teams with a
38.9-stroke 9-hole
average; made the 1A
state cut for 2nd time.
Jordan Negus
Port Angeles
Junior
The Rider junior
was match medalist 4
times in league play
and reached the state
tournament for the
second straight year.
Gabriel Tonan
Port Townsend
Coach of the Year
Guided PT to an
Olympic League title
with three golfers
reaching 1A state and
one (Piper) placing in
the top 10.
Golfers were selected by area boys golf coaches and the sports staff of the Peninsula Daily News.
Not par for the course
Matt Schubert/Peninsula Daily News
Chimacum’s Mason Moug, a three-sport star for
the Cowboys, turned to golf for a change of pace
and eventually became one of the better sticks
in the state.
Moug rare multi-sport
star in world of golf
By Brad LaBrie
Peninsula Daily News
CHIMACUM — Mason
Moug isn’t your typical statelevel
high school golfer.
The Chimacum senior is
a three-sport athlete who
was the quarterback and
team leader on the football
team in fall, a shooting guard
on the basketball squad in
winter and the No. 1 player
on the golf team in spring.
Most star prep golfers are
one-sport specialists who
spend a lot of time in the offseason
honing their skills.
At the Class 1A state
tournament May 24-25 at
The Home Course in DuPont,
Moug asked his fellow state
golfers how many sports
they participated in.
“They all said that they
play only golf,” Moug said.
Despite having a disadvantage
in experience, Moug
tied for fourth place at state
with a two-day score of 148
on 36 holes, the highest state
finish of any North Olympic
Peninsula golfer.
At state, Moug was going
against golfers who compete
in tournaments during the
weekends in Arizona, Cowboys
coach Mitch Black said.
“That speaks to the way
Mason competes,” Black
added.
The multitalented Moug,
who says he could have been
a starter on Chimacum’s
state-championship baseball
team, went out for golf his
freshman year for a change
of scenery from baseball.
“I played baseball every
year till the eighth grade,”
Moug said. “I was burned out
from playing all-star baseball
every summer.”
Since he played golf usually
just once a year with his
dad for fun, Moug was far
from burned out in that
sport. The talented athlete
caught on to golf quickly,
Black said.
Moug missed the state
cut by two strokes as a freshman
and made the trip to
state the past three years.
He claimed 22nd place as
a junior and jumped all the
way up to fourth this year.
“I knew I could finish at
the top because I was in seventh
place after the first day
last year,” Moug said. “Then
I blew up on the second day.”
This season Moug was
tied for second with a 1-over
73 after the first day and
hung in there with a 75 the
second day to finish in the
top four.
Boys Golf MVP
“You could not find a better
guy,” Black said. “In four
years I have had nothing but
positive experiences with
him.”
The 6-foot-4 Moug, who
had a growth spurt from 5-9
at the end of his sophomore
year, has a powerful swing.
“He hit 16 greens at
state,” Black said. “He can
just blast it.”
Next up for Moug is a
communications degree
from San Diego Mesa College.
He hopes to walk on and
play golf at the community
college while in San Diego.
“I don’t know if I will
have time to play golf,
though, because I have to
balance a job to pay for
school,” Moug said.
If he does find a team to
play for, there’s no doubt that
Moug will be competitive.