Brian Haskell’s emotions don’t always reflect his competitive spirit that seeks victories.

Most times the veteran golfer’s words belie how easy he can makes wins look.

The Maysville, Mo., native and St. Joseph resident needed only 26 holes to win two match play matchups Friday at St. Joseph Country Club, advancing into the Missouri Amateur Championship quarterfinals. Haskell beat Springfield’s Glenn Scott 5-and-4 in the round of 32 then pasted Don Walsworth of Overland Park, Kan., 7-and-6.

Haskell recorded no bogeys and didn’t lose a hole.

“You can’t ever play too good,” said Haskell, in the quarters for the first time since reaching the finals in 2006. “I played reasonably well today. I mean I got through two rounds without a bogey, so that puts pressure on them, makes them have to make birdies to beat me.”

Three of St. Joseph’s remaining golfers reached the round of 16 Friday with Harry Roberts and Caleb Carter joining Haskell in that group.

Carter matched Haskell’s results, moving one match from the semifinals in his first time as a qualifier for the Missouri Amateur. Seeded 47th after two rounds of stroke play, Carter might be the most unlikely golfer left in the field.

After beating Columbia’s Chris Johnson 1-up and Webb City’s David Eddy 2-up, the senior-to-be at Missouri Western faces defending champion Justin Bardgett — a collegiate golfer at Colorado — in today’s 8:39 a.m. matchup.

“I don’t even know who the final eight is right now,” Carter said just after toppling Eddy, a Missouri Southern rival, “but I’m pretty sure no one figured that I’d be one of the top eight playing. Just go out and have fun, try to keep it close, I guess.”

Carter led Johnson 2-up in their morning matchup going to No. 16, where Carter made a clutch par save from 18 feet out to retain that advantage going into the final two holes. But he lipped out a short birdie putt at the 17th hole that allowed Johnson to extend the match.

The pair halved the final hole to give Carter the victory.

Carter’s afternoon match appeared ready to end in a rout.

The Benton graduate led 4-up after nine holes but needed a short 3-foot birdie putt at 17 to hold on to a 1-up lead against 17. Eddy had just made a longer birdie putt to put the pressure on Carter.

Eddy ended up conceding the final hole, but the match still hinged on Carter’s short try at 17.

“Good thing it was a straight putt because I don’t know if I would have made it,” Carter said.

Haskell didn’t let any leads slip away.

The 43-year-old birdied No. 1 in both of his matchups and led wire-to-wire in each decision. In the round of 32 matchup, Scott twice hit into the water on the peninsular par-3 13th to give Haskell a 4-up lead, and Haskell birdied to win 14 and end the match.

In the afternoon, Haskell led 3-up at the turn then won 10, 11 and 12 to close out Walsworth — a three-time qualifier for the U.S. Open. Haskell plays UMKC golfer Josh Taylor in today’s quarterfinals after Taylor knocked out Roberts, a Country Club member, in the round of 16.

Playing in the Missouri Amateur’s match play rounds for the seventh straight year, Roberts advanced out of the first round for the first time with a win Thursday. He followed that with a victory Friday morning, birdying No. 17 to win 2-and-1 against Rocheport’s Nick Wilson.

Roberts couldn’t replicate the results in the afternoon.

Taylor took a 3-up lead at the turn and moved to 4-up with six holes to play. Roberts won 14 and 15, but Taylor’s par save on the par-3 16th made it dormie-2. Roberts hit an errant tee shot right at 17 and couldn’t make a long birdie putt to extend the match.

“I’m really happy with the way I played in all my matches,” Roberts said. “Obviously, the last match, I didn’t play my best match. I made some mistakes, and at this level of play, you won’t get away with that normally. I didn’t.”

St. Joseph’s Brad Nurski and Dan Crawford (5-and-4 to Warrensburg’s Ryan Marks) lost in the round of 32.

Having never made it past the quarterfinals at the Missouri Amateur, Nurski — winner of the last four City Championship tournaments he’s entered — fell behind early against Golden City’s Brian Whittle and went on to a 4-and-3 loss. Nurski struggled to make birdies in both of his matches, but putting struggles ended his tournament.

“Ultimate disappointment, but that’s golf. You run into some buzz saws every once in a while,” Nurski said.

After bowing out, Nurski remained on the course all day to support the remaining St. Joseph golfers. He plans to do the same this morning before playing in the Moila Country Club Invitational.

“We have two St. Joe guys left, and I’ll be here rooting the hell out of them,” he said. “I wish all the luck and God bless them in the world for Brian and Caleb.”