Cowans, Gose capture top BW golf awards

By GARY HENERY

News Man­ag­ing Editor

Senior TJ Cow­ans and junior Kyle Gose earned the top two post­sea­son awards at the Big Wal­nut Golf Awards Ban­quet held Octo­ber 15 in the Media Cen­ter at Big Wal­nut High School.

Cow­ans, who earned Third Team All-Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion recog­ni­tion as well as qual­i­fy­ing to the Divi­sion I Regional Tour­na­ment, was pre­sented with the cov­eted Golden Eagle Award. The Golden Eagle Award is awarded to a senior based on Char­ac­ter (40 per­cent), Schol­ar­ship (30 per­cent, 3.00 or higher GPA-3.241) and Ath­letic Abil­ity (30 percent)

Gose, who also earned Third Team All-Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion recog­ni­tion, was the recip­i­ent of the Low Stroke Aver­age Award. Gose aver­aged 82.75 strokes per 18 holes in OCC matches.

Senior Evan Can­nell and sopho­more Ryan Cun­ning­ham joined Cow­ans and Gose at the podium for recog­ni­tion. Can­nell was pre­sented with the Coaches Award. Cun­ning­ham was rec­og­nized as an Hon­or­able Men­tion All-OCC Cap­i­tal Divi­sion selection.

Under head coach Chuck Work­man, Big Wal­nut posted a 128–90 record while plac­ing sev­enth in the Divi­sion I Cen­tral Dis­trict Tour­na­ment and fifth in the OCC Cap­i­tal Divi­sion with a 13–15 record.

New Albany won the Cap­i­tal Divi­sion with an unblem­ished 28–0 record fol­lowed by Olen­tangy and Mount Ver­non which tied for sec­ond at 20–8 and Olen­tangy Orange which fin­ished fourth at 18–10.

Work­man, who was assisted by Jim Rinella, awarded six var­sity let­ters, led by Cow­ans and Can­nell who earned Var­sity Blan­kets as four-year let­ter win­ners along with their Senior Plaques. Sopho­more Kyle Bash joined Gose as two-year let­ter men while sopho­more Chad Lit­tle joined Cun­ning­ham as first year let­ter winners.

Junior Var­sity awards were pre­sented to juniors Nathaniel Bart­man and Adam Free­berg, to sopho­mores Daniel Steller and Jared Troyer, and to fresh­man Jacob Wilson.

Four mem­bers of the Golden Eagle squad, Bash, Cun­ning­ham, Gose and Cow­ans, were hon­ored as Big Wal­nut Scholar Ath­letes (Var­sity Let­ter Win­ner, 3.20 Grade Point Average).

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