Joyce takes spring roll into summer with a Junior Tour victory at Indian Valley

    Quakertown junior Nick Joyce, a PIAA Class AAA qualifier last fall, spent the first day of summer Tuesday in much the same way he had the spring that preceded it … in the winner’s circle.

   Joyce made birdies on the eighth and 12^th holes and had 11 pars on his scorecard as he recorded a steady 3-over-par 75 over the tough Indian Valley Country Club layout in Telford to finish atop the 16-to-18 division and claim his fourth Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour win of the season.

   (Spoiler alert: Joyce was about to make it five wins with another victory in a two-day Philly Junior Tour event at Turtle Creek Golf Course, but that will be the next post.)

   Erik Hansen of Spring City made a birdie at the eighth hole and then finished up his round with back-to-back birdies at 17 and 18 as he finished three shots behind Joyce in second place with a 6-over 78. Hansen also had nine pars on his card.

   Joey Carr of Ambler and Marshall Kain of Newtown Square finished in a tie for third place, each landing on 80. Carr made a birdie at the fourth hole and had nine pars on his scorecard while Kain made a birdie at 14 and also had nine pars on his card.

   Daniel Shin of Horsham finished a shot behind Carr and Kain in fifth place with an 81.

   Jack Mascolo of Doylestown and Jacob Dommel, playing close to his Telford home, shared sixth place, each signing for an 82.

   Rounding out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division were three players tied for eighth place at 83, including Daniel Orford of Doylestown, Christopher DiRita of Drexel Hill and Ehren Weyman of New Hope.

   Gavin Pychinka of Northampton made birdies at the fifth, ninth and 12^th holes and eight pars on his scorecard as he claimed a victory in the 13-to-15 division with a 4-over 76.

   Dean Kaiser of Bryn Mawr finished a shot behind Pychinka in second place with a 77 as he made birdies at the fifth, eighth, ninth and 15^th holes and had seven pars on his card.

   Lucas Albert of Fort Washington finished in third place as he made back-to-back birdies on the seventh and eighth holes and had seven pars, including four straight to conclude his round, on his way to a 79.

   Mac Traynor of Villanova took fourth place with an 82, Teddy Davey of Bryn Mawr was fifth with an 83, Daniel Rozinsky of Newtown was sixth with an 84 and Owen Grimes of Malvern was seventh with an 85.

   Rounding out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division were four players tied for eighth place at 86, including Trevor Sieben of Medford, N.J., Collin Schreiber of Kunkeltown, David Nissen of Lower Gwynedd and Wills Kaiser, another member of Bryn Mawr’s Team Kaiser.

   The best score of the day among the girls came out of the 13-to-15 division as Katherine Liu of Moorestown, N.J. made pars at the sixth and 12^th holes on her way to a 92 that gave her a Philly Junior Tour victory.

   Anna Firko of Wilmington, Del. made pars at the 10^th and 18^th holes as she earned runnerup honors with a 105. Madeline McLean of Yardley made a par on the fourth hole as she finished in third place with a 109.

   Rounding out the field in the 13-to-15 division was Millie Snyder of Collegeville as she finished in fourth place with a 143.

   Pennridge senior Taryn Shine was the lone entry in the 16-to-18 field as she claimed a Philly Junior Tour victory with a 96 that featured pars on the second and 14^th holes.

   Holden Sparks of Nazareth made a birdie on the 16^th hole and had five pars on his scorecard as he bested the field of nine-holers with a 2-over 38. It was the fifth victory of the season for Sparks.

   Henry Sokol of Villanova had five pars as he earned runnerup honors with a 5-over 41. Ian Rotto of Kennett Square made a birdie on the 15^th hole and had three pars on his card as he finished alone in third place with a 42.

   Rayan Shah of Newtown took fourth place with a 46, John Shea of Harleysville and Alex DiGiacinto of Nazareth shared fifth place, each signing for a 47, Carter Hippauf of Quakertown was seventh with a 50 and Jack Sokol of Villanova’s Team Sokol was eighth with a 51.

   Henry Mysliwiec of Doylestown took ninth place with a 53 and Max Davis of Newtown Square and Jia Yan of Malvern rounded out the top 10 in the coed 12-and-under division as they finished in a tie for 10^th place, each carding a 58.

   Another member of Malvern’s Team Yan, Zheng Yan, rounded out the scoring among the nine-holers, finishing in 12^th place with a 70.