NATCHEZ — On the final day of last year’s Class 1A golf tournament, the only drama was how much St. Aloysius would win by.

Not this year.

Cathedral ended St. Al’s bid for a fourth consecutive state title with a seven-stroke victory Friday on its home course of Beau Pré in Natchez.

The Green Wave’s victory shockingly ended the reign of St. Al, which won last year’s state tournament by 99 strokes and had not been challenged by Cathedral in several tournaments this season.

“It was like beating Tiger Woods,” Cathedral coach Kurt Russ said. “We were such underdogs.”

Cathedral took a four-shot lead over archrival St. Al into the second round and extended it to 11 after the first two groups posted their scores. St. Al bounced back to a narrow one-stroke lead after Fisher Campbell burned up the course with a 75, a huge turnaround from his disastrous 92 in the first round.

It wasn’t enough, though. St. Al’s fourth and fifth golfers, Elliot Bexley and Harris McKay, finished with two-day totals of 194 and 188, respectively, and failed to add to the slim margin. That allowed their Cathedral playing partners to rebuild their team’s lead.

Cathedral finished with a team total of 660, while St. Al totaled 667. West Union finished third, 64 strokes behind Cathedral.

St. Al’s Chris Ingram also was derailed in his bid for a second straight individual state title. He had a few putts lip out and put a shot in the water, and ended up shooting a 79 in the second round. His two-day total of 153 was good for second place, five shots behind West Union’s Austin Bynum.

Bynum shot a 74 for the second consecutive day, allowing him to pull out of a tie with Ingram at the start of round two.

Cathedral’s Steve Scarborough finished third in the individual standings with a two-day total of 157.

“He was robotic out there,” Ingram said of Bynum.