Two years ago they weren’t even a playoff team. Now, they are state champions. 

Sophomore Mady Savary was the medalist and senior captain Aiden Boule was the co-runner-up, lifting the Bishop Brady Green Giants to the Division III golf title on Thursday at Rochester Country Club, the program’s first championship since 2005.

Bishop Brady’s total score was 329, 15 strokes better than runner-up Derryfield. Plymouth (369), Lebanon (372), Gilford (373), Pelham (374), Stevens (378) and Coe-Brown (395) were the other team scores.

“Unbelievable. The kids really showed up,” Bishop Brady third-year head coach Jason Bird said. “It was a great team effort.”

Savary shot a 75, three strokes over the par 72 course, six strokes ahead of Boule. Savary’s score counted towards the team total, but doesn’t count in the individual leaderboard having already made the cut for the girls’ individual championship final in the qualifying round at Campbell’s Scottish Highlands on Oct. 5.

With Savary’s score only counting towards the team score, Boule’s round of 9-over 81 vaulted him to the top of the leaderboard in a tie for first place with Owen Wilkinson of Stevens.

While Savary leading the pack isn’t a huge surprise given that she was the medalist five times in the Giants’ 10 regular season matches, Boule (medalist one time in the regular season) had a breakout performance.

Boule and Wilkinson will have a three-stroke lead over the rest of the field when they tee off on Saturday morning at Beaver Meadow in Concord to decide the D-III individual championship. 

“Aiden is very capable of putting up those numbers when he is dialed in,” Bird said. “And he was today.”

Brady freshman Chase Connor and Derryfield’s Mitchell Grunbeck tied for third at 12-over 84, and Giant sophomore Luke Bedard (17-over 89) tied for 12th to make the cut.

John Stark sophomore Landon Duclos (11th, 16-over 88) and Coe-Brown senior Alex Myslinkski (tied 12th, 17-over 89) finished in the top 14 to also make the cut for Saturday’s final.

Regular season rounds are nine holes, but the championship rounds are 18 holes each. On Thursday, that worked to Bishop Brady’s advantage.

“(They) held it together on the back nine on the greens,” Bird said. “They are challenging, but they held on.”

Sophomores Cam Fortier (22 over) and Peyton Cone (36 over), and junior Alex Pelletier (27 over) also competed well for the Giants and provided depth that Brady didn’t have a couple of years ago.

“We’ve had a lot of numbers show up for the golf team over (the last three) years,” Bird said. “More and more kids are playing and competing (outside of the fall season).”

Boule himself only played on the team for two years, but as the lone senior on the roster, it’s possible that the Giants have six of seven varsity players returning next fall.

“I’m proud of all the work we put in,” Boule said. “We never quit and it paid off. I’m really proud of the team and can’t wait to see if they can take home another (title) next year.”

Grant Hardy (23 over), Sam Spier (31 over) and Will Marshall (36 over) were the other scoring golfers for eighth-place Coe-Brown.

John Stark’s Daniel Brisson (23 over), Kearsarge’s JT Pourby (32 over) and Owen Blood (36 over), and Coe-Brown’s Matt Hamer (38 over), Colby Strum (43 over) and Caleb Jobin (69 over) were the other area competitors.

Division IV

No area teams qualified for the Division IV tournament, but Hopkinton senior Bronson Ammann (fourth) and Hillsboro-Deering junior Gavin Ford (tied seventh) made the cut for the final round of D-IV’s individual tournament, which will also be contested Saturday morning at Beaver Meadow.

Mascenic’s Josiah Hakala shot a 4-under, carding a 68 on the par 72 to lead Mascenic to a decisive victory at Keene Country Club.

Mascenic’s score of 317 was 17 strokes ahead of runner-up Gorham (334). White Mountains (349), Littleton (350), Inter-Lakes (366), Conant (375), Woodsville (378) and Fall Mountain (379) were the other team scores.

Ammann, at 5-over 77 is nine strokes behind the leaders, while Ford carded an 82. 

H-D junior Lenny Seymour (15-over) missed the cut by one streak, while Hopkinton’s Tate Doolan (32-over), Belmont’s Max Ryder (17 over) and Jordan DeFrancesco (33 over), and Concord Christian’s Connor Faherty (21 over) and Caleb Thompson (24 over) also competed.