COLUMBIA - It was a tough day Wednesday for Team Missouri on the opening day of the 52nd annual Junior Girls Four State Championship at Country Club of Missouri.
Missouri is in last place of the four teams with two points, winning two of its six matches. Kansas holds the lead with 4.5 points, followed by Iowa with three and Nebraska with 2.5.
Jefferson City's Greta Hinds and Eldon's Kassidy Hull both finished 0-2 in their two rounds Wednesday.
The first round was four-ball matches, where each golfer plays her own ball and the lowest score of the two teammates is their posted score for the hole.
Hinds and her playing partner, Audrey Rischer, lost 3-and-2 to Kansas' Julia Misemer and Brooke King. Hull and her playing partner, Abby Howard, lost 6-and-5 to Nebraska's Baylee Steele and Nicole Kolbas.
Hull birdied the par-3 fourth hole, her pairing's lone hole won in the match.
The second round of the event was the foursome matches, where teammates play the same ball and alternate shots. However, due to the morning rain that delayed the start of the event, the foursome matches only lasted nine holes in order to be completed before sunset.
Hinds and Hull, paired together in foursomes, lost 3-and-1 to Iowa's Lauren Sease and Ellie Braksiek. Hinds and Hull won holes 4 and 6 (both par 3s), but Sease and Braksiek won five of the other six holes played to clinch the match.
Taryn Overstreet, who won the Missouri Junior Match Play girls championship last month, accounted for both of Team Missouri's wins.
Taryn Overstreet and her younger sister, Ella Overstreet, won 3-and-2 against Iowa's Rylee Heryford and Anna Nacos in the four-ball format. In foursomes, Taryn Overstreet and Rischer won 2-and-1 against Nebraska's Lauren Thiele and Danica Badura.
Today is the final day of the Junior Girls Four State, with all 24 golfers - six from each state - competing in singles play. A team can earn a maximum total of six points in the round: one point for a match win, and half a point for a match halved.
Hinds will have the second tee time of the morning, beginning at 8:10 a.m. against Nebraska's Emily Karmazin. Hull will tee off at 9:10 a.m. and face Kansas' Victoria Klausner.