Mt. Hope High School golf team tees off 2019 season

Huskies have eyes on getting back in the win column this spring

By Mike Rego
Posted 4/24/19

SWANSEA — For a program that hasn’t won a match in three years, the Mt. Hope High School golf team began its 2019 season earlier this week with a home contest against East Providence and Rogers …

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Mt. Hope High School golf team tees off 2019 season

Huskies have eyes on getting back in the win column this spring

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SWANSEA — For a program that hasn’t won a match in three years, the Mt. Hope High School golf team began its 2019 season earlier this week with a home contest against East Providence and Rogers at Swansea Country Club measuring any success in incremental steps.

The Huskies enter the spring with hopes of winning a match or two, but also with an eye towards being a bit more competitive this season.

Juniors Jacob Medeiros and Bryan Dupras play from the top two spots in the order, respectively. They’re followed by two freshmen, Benjamin Flynn and Christopher Frawley. Senior Cody Moniz starts the year from the fifth and last scoring spot in matches.

“We’re still building, but I think it’s looking brighter. We’ve got a nucleus of kids who’ve been to practice every day and are willing to work. They’re playing hard,” said Mt. Hope head coach Chris Munzert, who enters his 14th season as the leader of the program.

He continued, “Jake Medeiros and Bryan Dupras are juniors this year and they’ve been playing for a while. Ben Flynn and Chris Frawley, they’re just beginning the game, but they’ve been here every day and they’re taking a liking to it, so that’s great. And Cody Moniz is a first year senior, who joined us this season and is working hard.”

The rest of the roster includes freshman Meghan Francis, sophomores Marissa Astrologo, Sara Macedo and Nathaniel Ramos, junior Kyle DaSilva and seniors Brooke Desmarais, Mackenzie DosSantos, Daniel Leger, Lila Saye and Gianna Zompa.

“Like usual for us, we have a lot of new, new kids. They’re new to the game, but there’s a lot of kids who are eager to try the game and hopefully they stick with it, start playing over the summer, go to clinics and things like that,” Munzert said.

The Eastern Division includes traditional state power Barrington, one of the other top programs in the area Portsmouth along with competitive sides like East Providence, Bay View, Rogers, Middletown and Tiverton. Where the Huskies fit into that latter group is to be determined. Barrington and Portsmouth are pretty much penciled in to earn the two berths into the state tournament out of the division after regular season play. East Providence and Bay View are among the sides thought to be in the hunt for the three-team Eastern playoff match for the third state tourney berth.

“We’re getting better, but I think the other teams are as well,” Munzert said. “The last three years we have’t won a match. I think a few wins are feasible, then anything else, if we got to that playoff match, that would be gravy. That would be awesome. That’s always the goal. We’re just not happy to be here.”

Realistically, the coach said he anticipates Medeiros leading the way with the remainder of the squad putting in the time to get better by the end of the year.

“I think Jake has a chance to pop, be on the cusp of qualifying for individual states, so we can look forward to that, hopefully,” Munzert added. “And for the rest of the team, I just want to see them improve throughout the season.”

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