Rain fell in more than one way in Estevan over Friday and Saturday, as ECS athletes rained on the parade of their competitors, dominating the SHSAA Provincial Golf Championships at the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Course.

The ECS girls nabbed the first place slot as a team in the female division, shooting a 395, while the boys followed suit in theirs with a 435.

Individually, the ECS males led the pack all the way, with Jace Carlisle at their head.

"It feels pretty good," he said about placing first in the province, and on home turf to boot. With a score of 148 to his credit, he pointed out one hole in particular that seemed to be the sweet spot.

"It was hole three for sure. I birdied there both days."

Jaydon Dudas was close on his heels shooting a 155, which gave him the third place slot, tied with Brody Istace from Kindersley and Parker Noln-Ens from Warman. Colby Friedrich from North Battleford took second.

Bailey Farr, placing 7th individually among the females with a 200 (tied with Collista Paskemin from Cut Knife), noted that bringing their A game and the conditions played a part in her team's success.

"We were hitting solid. The weather was better too," she said, adding that it helped that she knew the course.

For her, hole 14 seemed to play to her personal advantage.

"I got the ball over, and just put it right beside the pin."

Farr added that it was a blast playing with her teammates.

The first place spot among the females went to Tenesha Pompu from Carrot River, with a three way tie among Jayden Bauer from St. Walburg, Lauren Fox from Creighton and Carey McLean from Lumsden following.

Wes Krekewich, pulling double duty as the ECS golfers' coach and event commissioner, was quite pleased at his young talents' success.

"It's fantastic, and I'm really impressed with all of them. And home course was an advantage, as we had hoped it would be."

He was also optimistic about the future for his group, with his eyes already on next year's provincials, to be held in North Battleford.

"The boys, they repeated their performance this year and we've got three of the four guys coming back next year, which is absolutely phenomenal. Turns out that we're losing two of our girls, so hopefully we can replace them and do just as well."

Krekewich was enthusiastic about Carlisle's showing, the latter having shot a 73 on Saturday.

"It's a lot of pressure when you're on your own course and you know you're in contention. It's a spectacular number, and he brought his game out. He's going to remember this all of his life, and do everything in his power to try and repeat it next year.

While his multiple duties at the event prevented him from devoting his whole attention to the team, he knew his players well.

"I didn't see his scorecard fully, but I'm guessing he probably only had a few bogeys on it, and maybe the odd birdie or two. That's just fantastic for a guy like him."

"To reach a point where these guys are at, the dedication is just phenomenal. The amount of practice that they are putting in, the number of rounds that they are putting in, their parents getting them in the best competitions that they can, it just helps their development tremendously," Krekewich expressed.

"All we try to do at the Estevan Comp is to give them extra opportunities to compete, and hopefully become successful, and become better people in the process."