Barbin right at home in claiming a Junior Tour win at cold and windy Chesapeake Bay

    Evan Barbin of the golfing Barbin family of Elkton, Md. was in familiar territory when the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour had a stop at the Chesapeake Bay Golf Club in Rising Sun, Md. Sunday.

   Even with temperatures barely reaching 50 and winds consistently blowing 20 mph with higher gusts, Barbin was able to put together a solid 10-over-par 81 to capture the top spot in the 16-to-18 division.

   Pretty sure Chesapeake Bay is basically Evan Barbin’s home course. Pretty sure Andy Barbin Sr., who runs the operation there, is his dad.

   Evan Barbin’s two older brothers, Zach and Austin, are both playing college golf at Liberty. Austin Barbin won the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Junior Boys Championship in 2019 at Coatesville Country Club. In the pandemic summer of 2020, Zach Barbin claimed a pair of GAP’s major championships, winning the BMW Philadelphia Amateur at Lancaster Country Club and the Joseph H. Patterson Cup at The 1912 Club.

   Evan Barbin birdied the ninth hole and had eight pars on his scorecard in the difficult conditions to claim the Junior Tour victory at the par-71 Chesapeake Bay layout.

   Joseph Fargnoli of Mickleton, N.J. also had eight pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors among the older guys with an 83.

   Noah Wallace, another Elkton, Md. entry, and La Salle junior Kevin Lafond, a PIAA Class AAA qualifier in 2020 as a sophomore, shared third place, each landing on 84. Wallace had 10 pars on his scorecard, including six in a row to start his round. Lafond had eight pars on his card.

   Avon Grove sophomore Tyler Sikorski took fifth place with an 85, Kennett sophomore Kasim Narinesingh-Smith was sixth with an 86, Tyler Blask of Harrisburg was seventh with an 87 and Owen J. Roberts junior Victor Mominey was eighth with a 90.

   Ben Bodle of Newtown Square took ninth place with a 91 and David Birmingham of Reading rounded out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division as he finished alone in 10^th place with a 92.

   Tyler Sieben of Medford, N.J. matched Evan Barbin for the low round of the day as Sieben carded a 10-over 81 to finish atop the leaderboard in the 13-to-15 division. Sieben was steady with nine pars on his scorecard.

   Lannon Boyd of Radnor made birdies at the 15^th and 18^th holes on his way to the clubhouse and had five pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with an 86.

   Tyler Whitney of Cherry Hill, N.J. and Harrison Brown of Villanova finished in a tie for third place, each signing for an 87. Whitney had seven pars on his scorecard, including three straight to close his round. Brown made a birdie at the 15^th hole and had five pars on his card.

   Rudy Mench of Wilmington, Del. took fifth place with an 89, Michael Liu of Garnet Valley was sixth with a 91, Cole Berry of West Chester was seventh with a 93 and Anderson Brexler of Doylestown was eighth with a 94.

   Luke LaScala of Wilmington, Del. took ninth place with a 95 and Braden Paris of Elkton, Md. rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as he finished alone in 10^th place with a 98.

   The best score of the day among the girls came out of the 13-to-15 division as Kaitlynne Simmons of Townsend, Del. had four pars on her scorecard in claiming a Philly Junior Tour victory in the division with a 90.

   Rounding out the field in the 13-to-15 division was Reagan Wilson of Kennett Square, who made a par on the sixth hole as she was the runnerup with a 119.

   Karina Serio of Colara, Md. was the lone entry in the 16-to-18 division and took the division victory with a 102 that featured pars on the eighth and 10^th holes.

   A couple of Nazareth guys, Holden Sparks and Dane Mohop, continued their strong play among the nine-holers.

   Sparks made a birdie on the fifth hole and had three pars as he bested the field of nine-holers with a 7-over 42. Ben Meixell of Wilmington, Del. was the runnerup as he made back-to-back pars on the fourth and fifth holes on his way to a 44.

   Mohop had three pars as he finished a shot behind Meixell in third place with a 45. Mohop and Sparks finished in second and third place, respectively, in Saturday’s Philly Junior Tour stop at Middletown Country Club.

   Isabella Studli of Fairfield took fourth place with a 47, Haden Mazurek of Middletown, Del. was fifth with a 50 and Nicholas Fargnoli of Team Fargnoli of Mickleton, N.J. was sixth with a 51.

   Torrian Denton of Mullica Hill, N.J. took seventh place with a 56 and Emma DiPatri of Franklinville, N.J. rounded out the coed 12-and-under field as she finished eighth with a 65.