The Delco Connection on both the men’s and women’s sides at
Dartmouth College made an immediate impact last weekend.
On the men’s side, Sean Fahey, the freshman from Episcopal Academy,
fired a final-round 76 to finish in a tie for 17th at 226 at the
Cornell Invitational. Fahey opened with a 2-over 73 at the Robert Trent Jones
course on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, N.Y. and followed that up with a 77 and then the
final-round 76. Scott Jaster, also a freshman and a three-time Haverford School
All-Delco, had rounds of 77, 78 and 81 and finished in a tie for 46th.
They helped Dartmouth finish fourth in the team standings at
903 (305-297-301), eight shots back of tournament winner Towson and a shot back
of the host Big Red, who finished third.
“It was a great first tournament experience for all of the
freshmen,” Fahey told thedartmouth.com. “Although we didn’t do as well as we
would have liked, we can learn from our mistakes and get better.
“We expect great things this season because we have a very
strong mix of junior and senior
leadership, as well as a lot of young talent from the ’16s and ’17s,” he added,
referring to the years the freshmen and sophomores are scheduled to graduate.
Dartmouth was led by freshman Jeffrey Lang, who had rounds
of 74, 72 and 70 for a 2-over 216 total that left him in second place six shots
back of tournament champion Chris Crawford, the former Holy Ghost Prep standout
who is a sophomore at Drexel.
On the girls side, freshman Jamie Susanin, a Radnor
All-Delco, competed as an individual as Dartmouth teed it up at the Yale
Intercollegiate in New Haven, Conn. Susanin had rounds of 79, 81 and 86 over
The Course at Yale for a 246 total that left her in a tie for 66th.
Dartmouth was led by freshman Tara Simmons, who posted a
final-round 76 to finish 12th and lead the Big Green to a 10th-place
finish in the team standings with a 930 (317-302-311) total. Host Yale was 19
shots clear of the field with an 874 total.
Also at Yale, former Notre Dame standout Lauren Bernard, a
senior at Bucknell, had rounds of 77, 78 and 79 to finish in a tie for 38th
at 234. Bernard led the Bison to a 13th-place finish in the team
standings.
Susanin, a two-time state qualifier and co-captain of Radnor’s
2012 PIAA Class AAA championship team, actually made her Dartmouth debut a week
earlier as the Big Green hosted the Dartmouth Women’s Invitational at Hanover
Country Club in Hanover, N.H. Susanin had rounds of 87 and 77 to finish in a
tie for 36th at 164.
Dartmouth had rounds of 311 and 304 to finish third in the
team standings at 615. Yale dominated at Dartmouth as well, finishing first at
575, 23 shots clear of runner-up Boston University.
The Big Green were led by senior Sarah Knapp, who finished 10th
with rounds of 72 and 77 for a 149 total.
Revisiting F&M Fall Invitational
Tuesday’s print edition of the Daily Times covered how some of the local colleges fared in the
F&M Fall Invitational hosted by Franklin & Marshall at Back Creek
Country Club in Lancaster.
The event also saw a strong outing by F&M freshman Jared
Brown. The former Strath Haven standout fired a 1-under 70 to finish in a tie
for first with a couple of York College players, Kevin Long and David Boslough.
Long was awarded first place on a tiebreaker, giving Brown a share of second place.
F&M had two teams in the event, with its strong Blue
team finishing third at 307 as York won the title at 302. Brown led F&M’s
White team to a sixth-place finish at 315. Radnor All-Delco Jin Hwang was also
on the F&M White team. His 86 earned him a share of 67th place.
A shot ahead of Hwang was Elizabethtown freshman Kyle Hakun,
a Springfield All-Delco. Hakun’s 85 was matched by teammate Ryan Laudeman for
low score for Elizabethtown, which finished 16th in the team
standings.
Sheftic helps U.S. retain PGA Cup
Mark Sheftic, the head on instruction at Merion Golf Club,
got a chance to hop over the pond and play in the PGA Cup matches last weekend
against club pros from Great Britain & Ireland at the Hunting Course at
DeVere Slaley Hall in Northumberland, England.
And as so often happens in these Ryder Cup-type events, it
came down to a four-footer that American JC Anderson, the head pro at Mission
Bluffs Golf Club in St. Charles, Mo, had to make to give the U.S. side the
half-point it needed to make it a 13-13 draw and enable the U.S. to retain the
Cup.
And make it Anderson did as his crucial half-point staved
off a gallant rally by GB&I, which ran up a 71/2-21/2 advantage in the
final-day singles matches.
Sheftic teamed up with Chip Sullivan of Troutville, Va. in
three different sessions. They lost a point to GB&I’s Gareth Wright and
Richard Wallis in a Friday morning foursome match, won a point from Benn Barham
and David Callaway in Friday afternoon’s fourball match and won a point from
Graham Fox and Callaway in a Saturday afternoon fourball match. Sheftic lost
his singles match to Jonathan Barnes to finish 2-2 for the weekend.
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