Coach Whiney Spigener and her squad had themselves an incredibly solid outing last week. Lady Cats golf placed third as a team at the Regional tournament in Canton to qualify for the 4A state meet held in Kingsland on May 15-17. It is the first time in 31 years Sulphur Springs sends her women’s golf team to the state tournament. “We set that goal at the beginning of the year, and they achieved it,” the golf coach said Friday. “It was great.” Coach Spigener said even with the team qualifying for state, some of her squad came off the greens disappointed, never settling for anything less than greatness. “They know what they can do,” she said last week, “[but] we are one of the top teams in the state, and if they play like it, we can place high at state.” Nerves ran high for Sulphur Springs at the 4A Regional tournament. Coach Spigener said her team knew full-well that they competed at the tourney with the best chance of advancing to state for the women’s golf program in quite some time. That, and the fact the Regional tourney had tee times, instead of a shotgun start where all compete at once, meant one player at a time hit the greens to shoot their shot, with all eyes on them as they did so. The coach said Friday the team put a lot of pressure on themselves to compete well and as a result nerves ran high through a majority of the two-day tourney, but Coach Spigener said it was overall a great learning experience for a predominantly young team.