Riverton Country Club’s Ann Laughlin, bidding for a
record-tying 12th title, reached the final of the Women’s Match Play
Championship Thursday at the Union League Golf Club of Torresdale.
As I dug up on a Google search Wednesday, Laughlin was the
AIAW individual champion at the University of Miami in 1972 and owns 11
Philadelphia Amateur titles. She’ll try to win the Women’s Golf Association of
Philadelphia’s biggest event Friday in a scheduled 36-hole final.
In Thursday’s semifinals, Laughlin claimed a 2-up victory
over Spring-Ford Country Club’s Maddie Sager, a runnerup in the PIAA Class AAA
Tournament for Owen J. Roberts last fall.
A win in Friday’s final would enable Laughlin to match late
Philadelphia Country Club great Helen Sigel Wilson’s record of 12 Philadelphia
Amateur crowns.
Laughlin will take on Commonwealth National Golf Club’s
Ashley Cassidy, a former Central Bucks East standout and a senior at the
University of Cincinnati in the title match. Cassidy claimed a 3 and 2 victory
over Merion Golf Club’s Catherine Elliott, who starred at the Academy of Notre
Dame and the University of Pennsylvania.
The First Flight final will pit Karen Siegel of Commonwealth
National and AK Frazier of Gulph Mills Golf Club.
Siegel cruised to an 8 and 6 victory over Ruth Averback of
Old York Road Country Club in one semifinal match while Frazier edged Merion’s
Liz Haines, 2 and 1, in a matchup of two battle-tested veterans in the other
semifinal.
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