{"id":36438,"date":"2026-05-07T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=36438"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:02:38","slug":"braves-dominate-back-nine-for-low-round-of-year-beating-bluffton-jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/braves-dominate-back-nine-for-low-round-of-year-beating-bluffton-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves dominate Back Nine for low round of year, beating Bluffton, Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All five varsity players for the Bellmont Braves carded scores in the 30s as the team navigated a cold night on the Back Nine at Cross Creek for an outstanding 153 to beat rival Bluffton by six strokes and Jay County in a three-way meet Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rafe Gerber of Bluffton had medalist honors with a night of two birdies for an even-par 36. Chase Baker was just behind him at 37, making birdies on the par-five 12th and 15th holes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Braves also had birdies from Sam Shifferly on No. 14 and Kade Cutler on No. 15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophomore Jacob Binegar carded a four for a birdie on the 18th hole to keep the whole team in the 30s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victory pushed the Bellmont season record to 7-2 overall. It was the first loss of the season for the Tigers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bellmont (153): Chase Baker 37, Jacob Binegar 39, Cam Summers 38, Kade Cutler 39, Sam Shifferly 39<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bluffton (159): Rafe Gerber 36, Reid Abbott 42, Declan Grieser 39, Gibson Grieser 47, Eli Sonnigsen 42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay County (185): Cody DeHoff 41, Dominic Bright 51, Dawson Goldsworth 47, Becket Brandenburg 55, Brian Fields 47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All five varsity players for the Bellmont Braves carded scores in the 30s as the team navigated a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,52,15,38,49,26],"class_list":["post-36438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bellmont","tag-bluffton","tag-featured","tag-golf","tag-jaycounty","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0031.jpg?fit=2464%2C1632&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36439,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36438\/revisions\/36439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}