MANHATTAN, Kan. – A week after winning their seventh-straight Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Men’s Golf Championship, the Hutchinson Community College men’s golf team added the 2026 NJCAA Region 6 Men’s Golf Championship to their season wins after coasting to a 28-stroke victory at Colbert Hills Golf Course in Manhattan, Kansas.

The five-team, 35-golfer tournament took place April 20-21 and saw the Blue Dragons place four individual golfers inside the top five of the 54-hole tournament. The Region 6 title is the third-straight for Hutchinson and 24th in program history, including the 12th under current head coach Chris Young. HCC opened the tournament with a nine-over 297, followed by a 12-over 303 to grab a 22-stroke lead after day one’s action. In the final round the next day, Hutchinson kept things going by shooting the low team round of the tournament by shooting a six-over 294 to finish with a total of 894, 28 strokes clear of Region 6 runners-up Garden City, who shot a 54-hole total of 922.

Individually, Blue Dragon Hugo Duquaine went wire-to-wire across the tournament to earn Region 6 medalist honors and become the second-straight Hutchinson men’s golfer to win the Region 6 individual championship. Duquaine opened the tournament with a two-under 70 before following with a three-over 73 to hold a four-shot lead heading into the final round. After seeing his lead disappear heading into the 16th hole, Duquaine finished with birdie-birdie-par on the closing three holes to shoot a one-over 73 and hold off Garden City’s Ilan Dufrenoy, who earned a runner-up finish with a 54-hole total of five-over 221.

Also earning top-five finishes at the tournament were Hutchinson’s Jack Northgraves, Grant Hatzenbuehler, and Corey Scullion, along with Dodge City’s Lucas Kuiper and Garden City’s Oliver Crowley. Kuiper and Northgraves both finished in a tie for third after shooting two-day totals of 225, while Hatzenbuehler, Scullion, and Crowley all tied for fifth with totals of 227.

Up next for NJCAA Region 6 men’s golf teams (Hutchinson, Garden City, Dodge City, Barton, and Coffeyville) is the 2026 NJCAA Central District Championship, which will begin next Monday, April 27th. The tournament be held at Rivercut Golf Course in Springfield, Missouri, is being hosted by Crowder College as the five Region 6 schools will be joined by Indian Hills and Iowa Western from NJCAA Region 11, Crowder College from NJCAA Region 16, and John A. Logan College from NJCAA Region 24. The top three teams, along with two individual qualifiers who finish in the top 10 and are not part of a qualifying team at the district tournament, will earn automatic berths into the 2026 NJCAA D1 Men’s Golf National Championship meet, while remaining teams will await one of eight potential at-large berths into the tournament field.