To have one local high school golfer standing amongst the top 15 in the state should make any avid linksman's heart swell with pride. To have two gives local golfers, parents, teachers and school administrators the right to boast on greens from South Bend to Jeffersonville or anywhere they may lay their clubs.

What Brianna Scheidler and Megan Gindling did for local golf doesn't compare to what they did for each other. All season, they were each other's best competitors and ultimately, made each other better. Stroke by stroke, hole by hole they battled and after out playing the competition meet after meet, in they end, they proved the game within the game was which girl would come away with the medal. That competition carried them all the way to state.

The difference between the two boils down to a one-stroke

advantage for Scheidler who recorded a 75-78 - 153 for the two-day

event while Gindling posted a 79-75 - 154 for the two days. To make

their dual accomplishment more significant, only one other team in

the state can lay claim to what these two girls did this year -

Indianapolis Roncalli - who had two girls tie the two Lady Pirates for

13th and 15th place, respectively.

Carmel, Columbus North and Noblesville had two players place in

the top 20 but only Greensburg and Roncalli had two girls in the top

15.

During the season the Pirates were unbeaten in dual and triangular

matches and a big part of their success was the presence of one of

two names at the top of the leader board in every match. When the