Vikes’ golfers take down Trojans

By JOSH FARLEY Staff Writer BREMERTON — Quietly climbing the ranks, the North Kitsap Viking girls’ golf team has transformed in play in the three year span coach Brian Bignold has coached the team. On Tuesday versus Olympic, the girls had another opportunity to demonstrate their stealthy emergence as a Narrows League contender, beating the Trojans at Rolling Hills 107-43. The results in the three-year span are self-evident, Coach Bignold said. “Three years ago, we scored 36 points (a match),” Bignold commented. “Now we’re scoring 107.” The win makes NK 2-0 on the season after a beating Shelton the previous day. Team No. 1 player Ella Sanman scored 3 points better in Tuesday’s match, and Bignold said there is potential for all of the varsity girls to do better every match. “We have five girls that have capabilities of shooting in the 30s,” he said. “I think they all know that they they’re capable of much better.” Perennial favorites Gig Harbor, as well as the South and Central Kitsap teams, will prove to be the biggest challenges for the Vikings. Gig Harbor put up 117 points against South Monday, which in turn scored 94. With NK falling in between those scores, the season is truly anyone’s ballgame, Bignold added. “Each of those four teams could land anywhere,” he said. The Vikings coach also said that the finer details of golf will bring about the greatest amount of success for the team. “The (girls’) swings are gorgeous,” Bignold commented. “It’s the subtleties of the game we need to work on.” Bignold said he has been impressed with the Vikings’ play with irons and drives off the tee. It’s the short game — around the green and especially putting — that will need work over the course of the season, he said. “Putting is a game within a game,” Bignold commented.