Seton Hall stayed home in New Jersey for the Easter weekend,
battling it out with host Princeton and two other Ivy League teams in the Match
Madness at Fox Hollow Golf Club in Branchburg, N.J.
Princeton, the reigning Ivy League champion, captured the Match
Madness title with a 3-2 win over the Pirates in Sunday’s championship match.
Seton Hall’s Lizzie Win, a sophomore from Sylvania, Ohio,
capped a 2-0 weekend with a 1-up victory over the Tigers’ Maya Walton, a
sophomore from Austin, Texas.
Sophomore Maddie Sager, the runnerup in the 2015 PIAA Class
AAA Championship as a senior at Owen J. Roberts, picked up the other point for
the Pirates with a 3 and 2 victory over Alison Chang, a sophomore from Walnut,
Calif.
Princeton’s Amber Wang, a junior from Sugar Land, Texas and
the reigning Ivy League individual champion, led the way for the Tigers with a
6 and 5 win over freshman Mia Kness, the 2016 PIAA Class AAA champion as a
senior at Peters Township.
Also claiming wins for Princeton were Tenley Shield, a senior
from Gross Pointe Park, Mich. who defeated Cassie Pantelas, a senior from
Canton, Ohio, 1-up, and Tiana Lau, a junior from Hong Kong who downed sophomore
Sammie Staudt, a former Coatesville standout, 2 and 1.
Princeton and Seton Hall brought along a couple of extra
players to get in a couple of matches both days.
The Pirates’ Gianna Tomeo, a junior from Bradenton, Fla.,
claimed a 2-up victory over Amanda Brown, a junior from Trabuco Canyon, Calif.,
while Princeton’s Anabelle Chang, a freshman from Walnut, Calif., beat senior
Macky Fouse, the 2013 PIAA Class AA champion as a senior at Central Valley, 3
and 2.
Those matchups were flipped as part of Saturday’s semifinals
a day earlier with Fouse claiming a 6 and 5 win over Brown and Tomeo suffering
a 1-up setback at the hands of Anabelle Chang.
Seton Hall advanced to the final against Princeton with a
3.5-1.5 victory over Penn in a Saturday semifinal.
Win got the first of her two victories for the weekend with
a convincing 6 and 5 decision over Tiffany Yau, a senior from Porter Ranch,
Calif.
The Pirates also got a 2 and 1 victory by Pantelas over Rina
Jong, a freshman from Braircliff Manor, N.Y., and a 4 and 3 win from Staudt
over Michelle Yom, a senior from Torrance, Calif. Kness battled Christina Park, a sophomore from San Diego, Calif., to
a draw.
Penn’s full point came from Janet Zhang, a junior from
Canada who defeated Sager, 4 and 3.
Meanwhile, Princeton got full points from Wang and Shield
and half-points from Alison Chang and Lau in a 3-2 victory over Columbia in the
other semifinal.
In Sunday’s third-place match, Columbia claimed a 3-2
victory over Penn.
The Lions got wins from Nancy Xu, a senior from Sunnyvale,
Calif. who beat Park, 4 and 3, Emily Chu,
a sophomore from Canada who claimed a
2-up decision over Yau, and Katie Lee, a freshman from Ringoes, N.J who
topped Yom, 3 and 2.
The Quakers’ two points came from Jung, who knocked off Amy
Ding, a junior from Lexington, Mass., 5 and 4, and Zhang, who claimed a 4 and 3
decision over Qingyi Symba Xu, a freshman from San Diego, Calif.
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