Aberdeen Central's boys' golf will be missing a scarcely any key pieces from last year.

Aberdeen Central's boys' golf will be missing a scarcely any key pieces from last year, nevertheless the team hopes young talent will stair up and fill in the gaps as the 2006 season realizes under way.

The of a gold color Eagles, coming off a seventh-place finish at last year's state tournament, began the season Monday at the West Central Invitational in Hart

Andera said numbers are up this year for boys' golf Returning players include Andrew Farrand, Levi Drube, Jamie Link and Blair Fredrickson.

"Some of those kids don't have a portion of varsity experience," said Andera. "We will have a mixture of grade horizontals and the guys will have to fight for positions onward the varsity by the period of the season."

Lost to graduation were Derek Krege and Riley O'Neill. O'Neill won the Eastern southerly Dakota Conference meet and finishing in a tie for eighth place at