The golf season is inevitably always like Halloween---you never know whether it will be a trick or a treat. About the time it would appear that the season was going to be a real treat, something would happen that would give pause at a different evaluation. Every member of the team played in matches this season if for no other reason than a different six would qualify each week. The treat occurred when we would win one week against Briarcrest; the trick would occur when, in a later match, we would lose. The treat occurred when Jason Walters, who was nationally ranked top ten when he played for the Brothers and Ronnie Wenzler, who is one of the area’s teaching pros, appeared in the course of the season to work with the team. They both helped a great deal and when the dust settled, the team’s record stood at 7-4, a big improvement over last year’s 5-5 record. The treat was that at the end of the season, the top six players emerged as a force to be reckoned with. Drew Maliniak, Reis Costa, Grant McCabe, Charlie Hamm, Daniel Kraus and Bradley Leggett provided the treats by earning three victories just days before regional play began. True to form, the team looked as if they could contend for the state title once again. One of those three treats occurred with a win over SBEC but yet another Halloween trick appeared as the Brothers lost to SBEC in regional finals the next day. In spite of the 7-4 record, the Brothers failed to qualify as a team to advance to the state playoffs for only the third time in twenty years. True to the Halloween tradition, however, the treat in the Regional finals involved Drew Maliniak who earned the right to advance to the state tournament to play for the individual title when he fired an impressive round of three under par 67. Looking back over the season, everyone would have to agree that it was truly a Halloween season---it was a trick that the team didn’t advance but then on the other hand it was a treat to have a winning regular season record as well as to have at least one team member to advance to the state finals.