Bayshore Christian took home a Blue Map trophy this week after the boys' golf team earned low-scoring honors in the 76th AHSAA State Golf Tournament at Oxmoor Valley RTJ Golf Course in Birmingham.

This marks the Eagles' first state title as a team. Michael Heaton, the lowest-scoring Eagle on Monday and who tied as runner-up for the individual Class 1-2A title with fellow teammate Waylon White, also took home top individual honors in 2022 and 2023.

On Monday, May 12, Heaton scored a 69 with six birdies, followed by White's Tuesday low score of 72 with three birdies.

The team, consisting of Walt Howley, Redford Bethea and Grant Kelly in addition to Heaton and White, ended atop the tournament 54-over-par 630. They were followed by North Sand Mountain with 83-over-par 659 in second place, Holy Spirit's 87-over-par 663 third-place finish and Lindsay Lane Christian with 99-over-par 675 in fourth.

Heaton and White's runner-up score came in at 3-over-par 147. Tied for 13th place was Kelly at 24-over-par 168. Bethea ended at 15th with 25-over-par 169, and Howley tied for 16th with 28-over-par 172.

OTHER TOURNEY RESULTS

Three other teams in Baldwin County scored in the tournament, including two Red Map trophies for state runners-up titles.

The Bayside Academy boys finished second in Class 5A, while the Spanish Fort girls came in second in Class 6A. The Toros' boys' team finished fourth.

Bayside, who has won three state championships, most recently in 2022, scored 32-over-par 608 as a team, coming up behind West Point's 24-over-par 600. The Admiral team consisted of Henry Cunningham, Ethan Kok, Campbell Hughes, Luke Ferguson and Wells Lambert.

Individually, Ferguson scored low on Monday, and Cunningham did so on Tuesday. Ferguson and Cunningham tied for fifth overall at 7-over-par 151, followed by Hughes and Kok tied for seventh at 9-over-par 153 and Lambert at 19th with 26-over-par 170.

Spanish Fort's Lady Toros finished their tournament at 43-over-par 475 behind Pike Road's 33-over-par 465. Their roster included Sara Carter Hare, Ainsley Madden, Bailee Reaper and Elizabeth Harvey.
Madden led on Monday, and Hare scored low on Tuesday. Individually, Madden and Reaper tied for seventh overall at 14-over-par 158, followed by Hare at tied-ninth with 15-over-par 159 and Harvey at 18th with 73-over-par 217.

Spanish Fort's boys fourth-place finish was a 16-over-par 592, coming up short of Homewood's top finish of 14-under-par 562, Spain Park's 4-over-par 580 and Athens' 10-over-par 586 with a roster of Reid Larson, Murray Walker, Miles Jackson, Emory Walker and Linc Cooper.

M. Walker was the Toros' low scorer, his 4-under-par 140 coming in at fifth overall. Larson tied at 11th with 2-over-par 146, followed by Jackson at 4-over-par 148, E. Walker at 21st with 14-over-par 158 and Cooper at 24th with 27-over-par 171.