Laguna Beach, CA — The LB varsity team played a wave league match against a strong Newport Harbor team on Tuesday at Ben Browns at The Ranch. While Newport was never really at risk during the match, winning 176-215, some of the Laguna players had good days on the course. Russel Franconi-Krychman lead Laguna posting 39 and Kiyan Arshadi was one behind posting 40. Both of them played consistently from tee to green but did not have many putts fall on the day. We have a young team this year, with Russell being the only returning starter from last year. So, most of the players are experiencing varsity-level play for the first time. That gives us plenty of opportunity to establish some baseline scores to use as a benchmark for further improvement. With that in mind, Chase Tyson (45), Preston Towe (45), and Evan Kretschmer (49), all had good days, shooting career-low scores at Ben Browns while playing in a varsity match. The other Laguna scores included Ranen Seeck (46), Davis Dix (50), and Tristan Reidel (55).