REEDSPORT — When it came to crunch time, South Umpqua’s Annie Johnson was on the top of her game at the Class 4A-3A-2A-1A District 3 golf championships Tuesday.

So was North Bend’s Mallory Rose.

The stakes were different for each. Johnson was battling for the individual district title. Rose was just trying to take one of the three at-large berths for the state tournament.

Each delivered.

Johnson had been the leader in the two-day tournament nearly from the start, shooting a 94 at Sandpines on Monday to take a four-stroke edge over Sutherlin’s Kayla Powell. She maintained that edge with steady play throughout the second round Tuesday until she ran into trouble on No. 17, taking an eight after having her second shot roll just out of bounds and her approach to the green knocked down by a branch hanging over the right edge of the fairway. Suddenly her edge over Powell had slipped to two strokes.

Johnson knew just where she stood as she addressed her ball on the 18th tee.

“It was going through my mind,” she said. “I knew I had two strokes to give.”

Johnson laced her drive down the 18th fairway and then hit a fairway wood onto the green, ending any suspense over whether she would win the title.

Powell, who had driven the ball some 30 yards farther than Johnson on No. 18, followed her rival’s approach by pushing her second shot into the bunker just right of the green. It wouldn’t have mattered if she had found the green, because Johnson’s birdie putt stopped just short of the cup and she tapped in for par, completing a final-round 93.

“It was awesome,” Johnson said of taking the title. “Kayla’s always been better.”

Powell ended up with a double-bogey on 18 and finished four strokes back. Her disappointment at being runner-up for the second straight year was clearly evident as she fought tears.

“It’s just disappointing because I lost by a few strokes two years in a row,” she said.

At least Powell could take some solace in Sutherlin winning the team title. The squad’s two-day total of 896 was more than 60 shots better than runner-up Siuslaw (962). North Bend was third with a team score of 1,046.

All that remained was determining the three at-large spots, one of which went to Johnson.

Rose was in great shape for the second spot after shooting a 103 in the opening round Monday.

But she ran into trouble of her own with a horrible stretch midway through the back nine Tuesday, posting two nines and a 12 on consecutive holes and giving away most of her cushion.

“It was really horrible,” said Rose, who pushed four straight balls out of bounds on No. 14 and then hit her drive out of bounds on the par-3 15th.

But just when things looked grim, Rose finished with a bogey and two pars. Like Johnson, she put her drive on 18 safely in the fairway and followed with an approach to the center of the green and a two-putt par. That gave her a 110 for the day and left her eight shots in front of the other at-large qualifier, Gold Beach’s Alyssa Stalcup.

“I kind of calmed down after a while,” Rose said. “I was definitely happy with how I finished.”

Rose, like Johnson and Powell, now turns her focus to the state tournament at Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond.

The two-day state championships starts Monday.

As a freshman last year, she finished far back in the pack.

“I hope to break 100,” she said.

Also returning to state is Stalcup, who qualified as a sophomore, but missed out last year.

Stalcup was pleased to get to state, but not with her district performance, which included a 112 on Tuesday after a 109 in the opening round.

“I wish I would have done a lot better,” she said. “This is my bad week. Hopefully I’ll do better at state.”