Kaiserslautern's Asia Andrews hits the ball on the No. 12 fairway during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany – Kaiserslautern coach Andrew Dager, Ramstein coach Kent Enyeart and tournament officials huddled in a back room on the clubhouse at Woodlawn Golf Course on Thursday debating how to handle an unprecedented situation.

After both rounds of the DODEA European golf championships, the Raiders and Royals were tied on 110 points in the modified Stableford scoring system. The tournament didn’t have a rule on tiebreakers.

Do they go with the top scorers? Records during the regular season? A playoff in the pouring rain? Who plays in the extra hole? Everything was on the table.

In the end, they decided to share the European title.

“We had to discuss what we wanted to do, but I think it was the right decision,” Enyeart said. “Both teams deserve it.”

Dager couldn’t have agreed more with his fellow coach.

He highlighted how Ramstein’s top two, sophomores Mya Boynton and Nora Hacker, outplayed their season averages of 20 and 22, respectively. Boynton took second overall with 50 points, while Hacker tied for third with Naples’ Morgan Johnson with 46 points.

Their performances, along with Lilianna Greene’s 12 total (three on Thursday) and Inara Johnson’s two (one on Thursday) helped erase a one-point deficit for the Royals from Wednesday.

Kaiserslautern, meanwhile, got enough from its supporting cast around individual champion Asia Andrews, especially its underclassmen in sophomore Mackenzie Dager and freshman Sophie Pezel.

“Both teams had interesting stories with how they got to Euros and how they played,” Andrew Dager said. “We both really did what we needed to do to get to where we are, and that wasn’t a given at the beginning of the season for either one of us.”

Kaiserslautern's Asia Andrews chips onto the No. 17 green during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

Ramstein's Nora Hacker hits the ball on the No. 8 fairway during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

Ramstein's Mya Boynton putts on the No. 12 green during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

Ramstein's Nora Hacker follows her putt on the No. 17 hole during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

Andrews said she was happy to end her high school career a perfect 4 for 4 for team titles, although she described the feeling as bittersweet because she didn’t have her longtime teammates in the graduated Reigen Pezel and Shalee Moneymaker-Donachie around.

Yet she also praised the effort of her teammates this year. Senior Sophia Johnson totaled 23 points over the two days, with an 11 on Thursday. She bogeyed her last hole, the No. 10, that proved vital to keeping it tied.

Johnson finished fifth overall.

Mackenzie Dager, meanwhile, added seven points on Thursday to give her 16 total and a sixth-place finish. Sophie Pezel, meanwhile, also scored a point with a double-bogey on No. 10 to help the Raiders keep at least a share of the team title for the fourth-straight year.

“We all played a vital part in our team’s success,” Andrews said. “I don’t think any one of us did more work than the others. We all played our parts.”

Andrews played her part to near perfection, though.

The senior became the second Raider in the past decade to win three individual European titles. The other was 2018 alumnae Jasmin Acker, who won from 2015-2017.

Andrews struggled on the front nine with just 11 points, with three coming on a par at the No. 8 hole. But she scored points on her last eight holes and finished with 15 points on the back nine.

“I can’t say enough about Asia,” Dager said. “With how hard she works and how much she’s done for the team over the last years as she’s won her three championships, she means everything to the team.”

Boynton, meanwhile, won the final round with a score of 27. After the front nine, she clawed to within four points of Andrews in the individual race. She had two pars, including on the par-5 No. 8 hole where she chipped over the water hazard and missed the sand trap.

“We had a talk after yesterday and told her to clear her mind and have the confidence we have in her,” Enyeart said of Boynton. “She came out and performed today.”

Looking ahead, the Raiders will go into rebuild mode with Andrews and Johnson graduating and freshman Lola Wesseler moving. Their coach said they will be looking at eighth-graders to join Mackenzie Dager and Sophie Pezel, as well as hope to win the PCS lottery.

The Royals, meanwhile, have their sights set on taking the crown outright next year with Boynton and Hacker coming back.

“Hopefully we get first (next year),” Boynton said. “The team can only grow from here.”

Naples' Morgan Johnson hits around a tree on the No. 12 hole during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

Ramstein's Mya Boynton chips onto the No. 8 green during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

Kaiserslautern's Mackenzie Dager hits off the No. 17 fairway during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

Kaiserslautern's Sofia Johnson hits the ball on the No. 17 fairway while fellow Raiders Mackenzie Dager, center, and Sophie Pezel watch in the background during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

Ramstein's Lilianna Greene surveys the No. 17 green before putting during the final round of the DODEA European golf championships on Oct. 10, 2024, at Woodlawn Golf Course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Matt Wagner/Stars and Stripes)

DODEA European Golf Championships

Wednesday-Thursday at Woodlawn Golf Course, Ramstein, Germany

Girls

Kaiserslautern 110, Ramstein 110, Naples 46, Stuttgart 18, Wiesbaden 12

1. Asia Andrews (Kais) 30-26_56; 2. Mya Boynton (Ram) 23-27_50; T3. Nora Hacker (Ram) 25-21_46; T3. Morgan Johnson (Nap) 23-23_46; 5. Sofia Johnson (Kais) 12-11_23; 6. Mackenzie Dager (Kais) 9-7_16; 7. Sophie Pezel (Kais) 8-7_15; 8. Lilianna Greene (Ram) 9-3_12; 9. Molly Singleton (Wies) 8-3_11; 10. Isabelle Spencer (Stut) 5-5_10; T11. Lola Wesseler (Kais) 1-7_8; T11. Clara Thompson (Stut) 4-4_8; 13. Inara Johnson (Ram) 1-1_2; 14. Alexandra Barnes (Wies) 1-0_1.