Despite temperatures in the 40s, Spring-Ford junior Ben
Pochet carded a 3-over-par 75 to take top honors in the 16-to-18 division in a
Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop Saturday at Foxchase Golf Club in
Stevens.
Pochet had a strong fall on the scholastic scene, earning
back-to-back individual titles in Class AAA at the District One and East
Regional tourneys and leading the Rams to the district team title. Pochet had
three birdies over the 6,421-yard, par-72 Foxchase layout to finish a shot
ahead of William Mirams of Stroudsburg, who had a 76.
Mason Wills of Lititz took third with a 77, Jordan Weisman
of Malvern was fourth with a 89 and Logan Hess of Willow Street and Shaun Fedor
of Lancaster shared fifth place, each posting an 81.
Nikita Romanov of Wilmington, Del., moving up to the older
age group after being named the Player of the Year in the 13-to-15 age group
(more on the season-ending awards in a post later this week), finished seventh
with an 83.
Benjamin Sheard of Elizabethtown took eighth with an 84,
Alex VanScoy of Newark, Del. was ninth with an 87, Michael Festa of Ambler was
10th with an 88 and James Poot of Pottstown and Andrew Koh of
Drersher finished in a tie for 11th at 89.
The best score of the day belonged to Logan Paczewski of
Dallas, who won the 13-to-15 division with a 2-over 74. Paczewski battled back
from an eight to record a pair of birdies on each nine. Derek McGlaughlin of
Elizabethtown was the runnerup with an 81.
William Pabst of Roaring Brook Township finished third with
an 84, Graham Calhoun of Lititz was fourth with an 87, Darren Nolan of Glenside
was fifth with a 90 and Kevin Motil of Sewell, N.J. was sixth with a 95.
Brady Ross of Feasterville took seventh with a 101, Stephane
de Brechard of Brooklyn was eighth with a 103, Clay Breidenstine of Hummelstown
was ninth with a 104 and Julian Lauver of Lancaster rounded out the top 10,
finishing 10th with a 112.
Nicholas Gross bested the field of nine-holers by making six
pars on his way to a solid 3-over 38. Winston Kelenc-Blank of Rumson, N.J. and
Sawyer Marten of East Petersburg shared second place, each carding a 40.
Zachary Sandler of Gladwyne and Sydney Yermish of Wynnewood
finished in a tie for fourth, each posting a 45. Julien de Brechard of Brooklyn
took sixth with a 46, Megan Adelman of Bryn Mawr was seventh with a 48, Hunter
Probst of Bear Creek was eighth with a 49 and Ava O’Sullivan of Exton was ninth
with a 55.
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