Zachary Sandler of Gladwyne matched par with a 72 as he
turned up the heat with the temperature rising on the golf course to claim a
victory in the 13-to-15 division in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop
at Yardley Country Club Monday.
Sandler had birdies at the sixth and 10th holes
on his way to an even-par score over the 6,294-yard, par-72 Yardley layout.
Scott Hughes of Ambler had two birdies on the front nine and rattled off six
straight pars on the back nine as he took runnerup honors with a 2-over 74.
Michael Walz of Berwyn and Luke Turse of Hainesport, N.J.
shared third place as each posted a 4-over 76. Nicholas Henn of Yardley took
fifth with a 77, Daniel Fitzgerald of New Hope was sixth with a 79 and John Lee
of Jamison was seventh with an 80.
Robert Dominy of Moorestown, N.J. finished eighth with an
81, Brendan Reilly of Doylestown was ninth with a 92 and Michael Morris of
Yardley rounded out the top 10 as he finished alone in 10th place
with a 105.
Steve Lorenzo, a PIAA Class AAA qualifier as a junior at La
Salle last fall, had four birdies to end up atop the leaderboard in the
16-to-18 division with a 3-over 75.
Ryan Rearden of Yardley and Calen Sanderson, a sophomore at
Holy Ghost Prep from Newtown, shared runnerup honors as each landed on 4-over
76. Rearden finished strong with back-to-back birdies at the 16th
and 17th holes while Sanderson had back-to-back birdies at the sixth
and seventh holes.
Mario Ventresca III of Blue Bell, Justin Dougherty of
Wyndmoor and John Bradbeer of Bryn Mawr finished in a three-way tie for fourth
place, each carding a 5-over 77. Wissahickon senior Samuel Barsh and Joshua
Cicco of Yardley shared seventh place, each signing for a 79.
Rounding out the top 10 were three players tied for ninth at
80, including Pennsbury senior Will Gerity, Tyler Schmidt of Langhorne and
Brett Ostroski of Dallas.
The best score among the girls also came from the younger
13-to-15 division as Baldwin freshman Megan Adelman had birdies at the fifth
and seventh holes on her way to an 83 that gave her her third Junior Tour
victory of the season. Adelman finished seventh in the Inter-Ac League
Championship at French Creek Golf Club as an eighth-grader in the spring.
Emma Reilly of Doylestown’s Team Reilly was the runnerup
with an 87 that included a birdie at the eighth hole and four pars. Caroline
Gola, a member of Mount St. Joseph’s District One Class AAA championship team
as a freshman last fall, had six pars as she finished third with a 94.
Gola’s teammate at the Mount, junior Clare Gimpel, a Class
AAA East Regional qualifier in each of her first two scholastic seasons, had a
birdie on the eighth hole as she carded an 84 that gave her the top spot in the
16-to-18 division. It was also Gimpel’s third Junior Tour win of the season.
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy junior Emma Schotsch was
the runnerup to Gimpel with an 87 that featured seven pars. Schotsch finished
third in the Inter-Ac Championship at French Creek in the spring. Skye Mada of
Cherry Hill, N.J. took third with a 106.
Matthew Sanderson of Newtown’s Team Sanderson had four pars
as he bested the field of nine-holers with an 8-over 44. Colton Orris of
Hershey was the runnerup with a 48.
Alex Fessler of Jamison had three straight pars on his way
to a 54 that earned him a third-place finish. Brady Kelly of Warrington took
fourth place with a 57.
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