WARREN — Warren JFK wants to leave it all out on the golf course one last time this season.

The high school golf season began at the start of August, and coming off back-to-back Division III boys state championships, the Eagles are already well on their way to chasing a possible three-peat this fall.

“As of right now, I believe we’re the best right now for Division III in the state,” head coach James LaPolla said. “I don’t see many teams with as much depth. Mooney has some players, but I think our boys, at the end of the day, always rise to the occasion. I think this year will be another great year for them. I think once they get into that tournament pressure, they’ll be completely fine. They rarely fold under that pressure. So I’m looking forward to it.”

The Eagles are brimming with confidence, and understandably so given that their same core from the last two years is back for their final go-around as seniors. That group includes Henry Phillips, Andrew LaPolla, Andrew Fredenburg, Julian Bolino and Preston Geracitano.

“We have built that team chemistry and that friendship along the way and that’s really helped us and carried us through the years,” Andrew LaPolla said. “Especially during our senior year, we have all seniors and all our buddies playing, so it’s real friendship. We just know we have each other’s backs when someone doesn’t play well.”

JFK has one goal on its mind and that’s getting back to the Division III boys state golf tournament, which this year is back at NorthStar Golf Club on Oct. 13-14.

That’s why James LaPolla has intentionally filled JFK’s schedule this season with tournaments and invitationals over matches in order to prepare the Eagles for the tournament atmospheres that they will see again in the OHSAA postseason at sectionals, districts and state.

“In the regular season, we have 20 events we’re allowed to play. That includes 20 tournaments or 20 matches,” James LaPolla said. “So this year with this squad, I wanted them to play more invitationals because this year they have been playing so great throughout the summer that I want them to have the opportunity to enjoy 18 holes rather than nine holes.”

Like James LaPolla said, one of Kennedy’s strengths is its depth. In addition to being able to consistently shoot in the low-to-mid 70s across most of its entire starting five, any one of the Eagles are capable of posting the team’s low round on a tournament to tournament basis.

For example, JFK has had a different low scorer in each of its three invitational wins this season.

“We’re just keeping our heads down and working,” Phillips said. “But now it means a little more because we know this is the last time we’re going to be playing with our friends. So we’re just taking advantage of every tournament, every practice and just enjoying ourselves.”

At the Garaway Pirate Invitational on Aug. 1, Phillips had the team’s low round with a 71. Then at the JFK Invitational on Aug. 4, Bolino, Phillips and Andrew LaPolla each shot 71s. Finally at Friday’s Joe Eaton Tannenhauf Invitational, Andrew LaPolla paced the team with a 74.

In addition to its three wins, the Eagles also already have a third-place finish at the Brookfield Invitational and a runner-up finish.

“As of right now, our average is just about 300, which to me, that’s great golf,” James LaPolla said. “That’s what you see on the D1 level consistently. So if we keep that up, assuming nothing happens with the pressure in the postseason, that’s going to be really tough to beat.”

While the Eagles’ senior-laden lineup is making the most of their final season together, it’s bittersweet at the same time for that very reason.

“It’s sad to think that these are the last times I’m going to be in these positions with my friends, and that we’re never going to be able to have this special of a team again,” Phillips said.

“These guys are my brothers,” Andrew LaPolla added. “Basically we’re laughing on the bus, we laugh coming, we laugh going. We’re serious when we need to be, but we’re funny and we joke around when we don’t have to be. It’s a little brotherhood, a little family that we’ve built together.”

Next up for JFK is the Northeast Ohio Invitational on Tuesday at J.E. Good Golf Course in Akron.