Looking for a fun night out? Wendy Greenfield thinks Southwest Middle School students may score a hole in one with their mystery-comedy.

Southwest presents “Par for the Corpse” by Craig Sodaro at 7 p.m. Friday in the Little Theatre. General admission tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for students and seniors. They are available at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m.

“Each year we try to do a different style,” Greenfield, the director, said. “We hadn’t done a mystery in a while. It’s fun, yet it’s a challenge. And there’s a large variety of types of characters.”

At an exclusive golf resort owned by Glenda Pearce (Stephi Falk), almost-famous golf pro Teddy Masters (Duncan Kromminga) is ready to help guests perfect their swings. When Joy Draper (Anna Englin) of dating service Harmonosity takes a crew of singles to the resort, one of her clients, Rita Sullivan (Solveig Lange), turns up dead with a chip shot to the temple.

Aren’t they lucky that Joy’s assistant, Sybil Conner (Sage Kermes), is studying criminology at the local college. She begins an investigation and everyone is a suspect, including the owner’s niece, Lily Pearce (Riley Schulz), who isn’t too interested in hard work; a washed-up fashion model, Shauna Wilson (Grace Gjersvik); a scientist obsessed with chaos theory, Henry Hingle (Luke Sundblad); a Montana cowgirl, Sissy Culpepper (Quinn Andersen); a stuffy professor of literature, Derrick Purcell (Jeremy Sekora); a Star Wars geek, Bobby Cole (Connor Larson); a successful businessman, Alvin Hart (Levi Hanson); and a hyprochondriac, Claire Smith (Claire Ellis).

In Rita’s purse, Sybil finds old newspaper clippings about an unresolved murder from five years ago that lead her to believe Masters is the killer from both the past and present murders. A second death confirms her suspicions, but when Teddy turns up as the third murder victim, things just don’t add up. Is there more than one murderer?

Janece Birch is the assistant director. Morgan Haney is the student director and stage manager.

The backstage crew includes Lynzee Underdahl, Mady Dahl, Lindsey Freitag, Sara Sanderson and Aimee Hickman.

Greenfield said 39 students auditioned for the play, which she sees as a very good number. Of the 13 cast members, eight are seventh-graders and five are eighth-graders.

Those who were cast in a role were asked if they were interested in being part of the crew.

“This is a good opportunity for kids to get involved in theater,” Greenfield said. “The middle school philosophy is designed to see where kids’ interests may lie. It’s exciting to see that many kids interested.”

She hopes the public will come out and see the dramatic potential of young people in the community.

“They’ve been working very hard for the last six weeks,” the director said, adding rehearsals have been every day from 3:15 to 5 p.m.