Bauer's 78 at a tough Lebanon layout is good enough to earn him a Junior Tour victory

    Andrew Bauer of Reading posted a solid 6-over-par 78 at Lebanon Country Club to finish at the top of the leaderboard in the 16-to-18 division and claim a victory in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop as our stretch of wonderful fall weather continued Sunday.

   Bauer’s steady round featured a birdie at the seventh hole and 11 pars over the par-72 Lebanon layout.

   Cameron White of Harrisburg made a birdie on the second and 17^th holes and had eight pars on his scorecard as he earned runnerup honors with an 81. Avon Grove junior Tyler Sikorski made a birdie on the 14^th hole and had six pars on his card as he finished in third place with an 84.

   Anthony Loria of Doylestown took fourth place with an 88 and Ethan Rader of Mount Gretna rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division as he finished in fifth place with a 90.

   Chase Dillman, a sophomore at Boyertown, made a birdie on the 16^th hole and had eight pars on his scorecard as he claimed a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 13-to-15 division with an 83.eno

   Ian Larsen of Glenmoore completed a solid weekend on the Philly Junior Tour as he made birdies on the second and 11^th holes and had seven pars on his card, finishing a shot behind Dillman in second place with an 84. Larsen finished in a tie for second place in Saturday’s Philly Junior Tour stop at Berkleigh Golf Club.

   Charlie Barrickman of West Chester made a birdie at the 10^th hole and had three pars on his card as he finished in third place with a 91.

   Austin Fulton of Carlisle took fourth place with a 94, Cameron Werder of Lititz was fifth with a 97 and Yaejoon Wee of Chesterbrook was sixth with a 102.

   Ryan Guenard of Furlong and Brooks Bemabei of Lancaster shared seventh place, each signing for a 104 and Max Miller of Hershey and Carter Appleby of Lititz finished in a tie for ninth place, each posting a 108.

   Jackson Shearer of Harrisburg rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as he finished in 11^th place with a 130.

   Only two competitors teed it up in the two girls divisions with Corinne McReynolds of Wayne making four pars on her way to a 94 that gave her a victory in the 13-to-15 division.

   Hannah Kopac of State College had four pars on her scorecard, two on each side, as she posted a 104 to earn the win in the 16-to-18 division.

   Dane Mohap of Nazareth has been the dominant player among the nine-holers all season and he was right around par all weekend in claiming a pair of Philly Junior Tour victories.

   Coming off a 1-under round in a win at Berkleigh Saturday, Mohap again had three birdies to top the field in the coed 12-and-under division with an even-par 36 at Lebanon. Mohap made birdies at the first, third and ninth holes and had four pars on his scorecard. Mohap went 1-under in the last five holes to pull away from the field.

   Benjamin Allwein of Annville made a birdie on the second hole and had four pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with a solid 3-over 39.

   Carter Hippauf of Quakertown had three pars on his card as he finished in third place with a 47. Rounding out the field in coed 12-and-under division was another member of Annville’s Team Allwein as Jefferson Allwein finished in fourth place with a 53.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wise gets off to fast start on his way to a Junior Tour victory at Berkleigh

    Owen Wise of Downingtown put together a solid 7-over-par 79 at Berkleigh Country Club in Kutztown, Berks County to finish first in the 16-to-18 division in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop on a spectacular fall Saturday.

   Wise went back-to-back with birdies at the 11^th and 12^th holes and had nine pars on his scorecard, seven of them on the outgoing nine at Berkleigh, on his way to the victory.

   Rishabh Jupudi of Philadelphia had 10 pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with an 83. Jakob Chapman of Honey Brook rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division as he had three pars on his card while posting a 97 to finish in third place.

   Colby Komancheck of Royersford had eight pars on his scorecard as he claimed the top spot in the 13-to-15 division with an 83.

   Ian Larsen of Glenmoore and Joseph Gangemi Jr. of Downingtown shared runnerup honors as each signed for a 90. Larsen had four pars on his card while Gangemi finished with six pars.

   Avery O’Neill of Romansville took fourth place with a 95 and Vyom Shukla of Berwyn rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as he finished in fifth place with a 97.

   Brooke Graham, who capped an outstanding scholastic career at Boiling Springs earlier this month with a fifth-place finish in the PIAA Class AA Championship at Penn State’s Blue Course, made a birdie on the 14^th hole and had nine pars on her scorecard to capture a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 16-to-18 victory. Graham was a four-time PIAA Class AA qualifier.

   Jiayin Ou of Pottstown finished her round with a par on the 18^th hole as she rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division by claiming runnerup honors with a 105.

   Jillian Burks of Paoli had seven pars on her scorecard as she edged Sophia Branca of Warrington by a shot to finish atop the leaderboard in the 13-to-15 division with an 88. Burks took fifth place in the Girls 10-11 Division in the Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals at Augusta National Golf Club in the spring of 2021.

  Branca made birdies on the first and fourth holes and had four pars on her card as she rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division by earning runnerup honors with an 89.

   Dane Mohap of Nazareth and Ian Rotto of Kennett Square have been going back and forth among the nine-holers, particularly in the fall portion of the Philly Junior Tour schedule.

   This time, it was Mohap who prevailed as he made birdies on the first, seventh and ninth holes and had four pars on his scorecard in a sparkling 1-under 34.

   Rotto made a birdie on the ninth hole and had two pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with a 6-over 41. Henry Sokol of Villanova had two pars on his card as he finished in third place, a shot behind Rotto with a 42.

   Another member of Villanova’s Team Sokol, Jack Sokol, and Joseph Walsh of Hershey rounded out the field in the coed 12-and-under division as they finished in a tie for fourth place, each recording a 48.

 

 

Another strong showing by Nicholas at ODU/OBX Intercollegiate leads Drexel to third-place finish

   Drexel’s Drue Nicholas, a junior from Egg Harbor Township, N.J., returned to the scene of his bustout victory in last year’s ODU/OBX Intercollegiate at Kilmaric Golf Club in Powells Point, N.C. this week.

   Although Nicholas, winner of the Patterson Cup, a Golf Association of Philadelphia major championship, at St. Davids Golf Club in August, didn’t repeat at Kilmaric, his runnerup finish led the Dragons to a solid third-place finish behind a couple of Midwest invaders in the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate, which wrapped up Tuesday.

   Nicholas, a junior phenom at the Jersey Shore who was a scholastic standout at St. Augustine Prep, once again found the par-71 Kilmaric layout to his liking. He opened with a 2-under 69 in Sunday’s first round, matched that total in Monday’s second round and did that one better in Tuesday’s final round with a 3-under 68 for a 7-under 206 total.

   That left Nicholas three shots behind North Dakota State’s Nate Adams, a junior from Maple Grove, Minn. who was a wire-to-wire winner with a 10-under 203 total. Adams ripped off back-to-back 5-under 66s in the first two rounds before matching par in the final round with a 71.

   Adams led the Bison, a Summit League representative, to their third win of the fall portion of the wraparound 2022-2023 campaign.

   It looks like Kilmaric was at its toughest for Monday’s opening round and North Dakota State survived with a 3-over 287. The Bison maintained their lead with a 6-under 278 in Monday’s second round and closed with a second straight 278 for a 14-under 838 total that left them seven shots clear of runnerup Southern Illinois at Edwardsville.

   SIU-Edwardsville, playing out of the Ohio Valley Conference, struggled a little in the opening round with a 14-over 298. The Cougars bounced back with a 10-under 274 in Monday’s second round before doing that one better in the final round with an 11-under 273 for a 7-under 206 total.

   It’s been a solid fall for Drexel, which was coming off a fourth-place finish in its trip out west at the Alister Mackenzie Invitational at Sonoma Golf Club in the wine country of Northern California.

   After struggling a little in the opening round at Kilmaric with an 11-over 295, Drexel matched par in the second round with a 284 before equaling the second-best single round in program history with the best team round of the tournament, a 12-under 272, in the final round. That left the Colonial Athletic Association representative in third place, six shots behind SIU-Edwardsville with a 1-under 851 total.

   It was another 16 shots back to Longwood, a Big South representative, in fourth place as the Lancers finished with a 15-over 867 total. After opening with a 296, Longwood posted a 3-over 287 in the second round before matching par in the final round with a 284.

   Georgetown, playing out of the Big East, was three shots behind Longwood in fifth place with an 18-over 870 total. The Hoyas matched par in Monday’s second round with a 284 after opening with a 294. They closed with an 8-over 292.

   Navy, a Patriot League entry, was another 10 shots behind Georgetown in sixth place with a 28-over 860 total. The Midshipmen opened with a 297, added a 294 in Monday’s second round and closed with their best round of the tournament, a 5-over 289.

   Atlantic 10 representative Saint Joseph’s finished a shot behind Navy in seventh place with a 29-over 881 total. After struggling to a 302 in the opening round, the Hawks bounced back with a 1-over 285 in Monday’s second round before finishing up with a 294.

   A third City 6 team in the field, Villanova, another Big East entry, finished in a tie for 10^th place with Omaha in the 16-team field with a 34-over 886 total. The Wildcats matched the opening-round 302 posted by City 6 rival Saint Joe’s, added a 293 in Monday’s second round and closed with their best round of the tournament, a 7-over 291.

   Backing up Adams for North Dakota State were Gavin Cronkhite, a junior from Lakeville, Minn., and Ian Simonich, a sophomore from Moorhead, Minn., both of whom also recorded top-10 finishes.

   Cronkhite closed with a 1-over 70 after matching par in the first two rounds with a pair of 71s to finish alone in seventh place with a 1-under 212 total. Simonich finished strong with a final round of 3-under 68 to land among a group of four players tied for eighth place at even-par 213. Simonich had opened with a 73 before adding a 1-over 72 in Monday’s second round.

   Brock Winter, a junior from Stillwater, Minn., finished in a tie for 14^th place with a 2-over 215 total for the Bison as he bounced back from an opening-round 77 with back-to-back 2-under 69s in the final two rounds.

   Rounding out the North Dakota State lineup was Nate Deziel, a senior from East Grand Fords, Minn. who rattled off three straight 1-over 72s to finish in a tie for 16^th place with a 3-over 216 total.

   Georgetown’s Max Hutter, a sophomore from Weston, Mass., and SIU-Edwardsville’s Anthony Ruthey, a redshirt junior from Port Byron, Ill., finished in a tie for third place, each ending up two shots behind Drexel’s Nicholas at 5-under 208.

   Hutter matched par with a 71 in Monday’s second round after opening with a 70 and then closed with a sparkling 4-under 67. After matching par in the opening round with a 71, Ruthey put up a 4-under 67 of his own in Monday’s second round before finishing up with a solid 1-under 70.

   Radford’s Patrick Gareiss, a senior from Chesapeake, Va., finished alone in fifth place with a 3-under 210 total as he bounced back from an opening-round 75 with a sizzling 5-under 66 in Monday’s second round before closing with a 2-under 69.

   Longwood’s Nick Rakes, a junior from Evington, Va., finished alone in sixth place, a shot behind Gareiss with a 2-under 211 total. Rakes matched par in Monday’s second round with a 71 after opening with a 1-over 72 before closing with a solid 3-under 68.

   Drexel’s Griffin Mitchell, a senior from New Albany, Ohio, gave the Dragons a second finisher inside the top eight as he joined North Dakota State’s Simonich in the foursome tied for eighth place at even-par 213. Mitchell contributed a 2-under 69 to Drexel’s final-round surge. He had matched par in the opening round with a 71 before adding a 2-over 73 in Monday’s second round.

   Rounding out the quartet at even-par 213 were Navy’s Chip Deegan, a freshman from Newport Beach, Calif., and SIU-Edwardsville’s Alex Eickhoff, a sophomore from Hillsboro, Ill.

   After opening with a 2-over 73, Deegan matched par in Monday’s second round with a 71 before closing with a solid 2-under 69. Eickhoff struggled to a 77 in the opening round before finding his groove with a 2-under 69 in Monday’s second round and a sparkling 4-under 67 in the final round.

   Drexel got a strong showing from Tafadzwa Nyamukondiwa, a senior from Zimbabwe as he posted back-to-back 2-under 69s in the final two rounds to finish in a tie for 18^th place with a 4-over 217 total. Nyamukondiwa had struggled in the opening round with an 8-over 79.

   Oscar Maxfield, a graduate student from Salt Lake City, Utah, closed with a sizzling 5-under 66 for the Dragons as he finished in the group tied for 41^st place with a 9-over 222 total. Maxfield, coming off a tie for fourth place in the Alister Mackenzie Invitational, had struggled in the first two rounds, adding a 76 in Monday’s second round to his opening-round 80.

   Rounding out the Drexel lineup was senior Liam Hart, the 2017 PIAA Class AAA champion as a junior at Holy Ghost Prep who finished among the group tied for 44^th place with a 10-over 223 total. After opening with a 5-over 76, Hart recorded a 73 in Monday’s second round before finishing up with a 74.

   Saint Joseph’s was led by sophomore Tommy Larkin, a former Cardinal O’Hara standout who had begun his college career at the University of the Sciences, which was absorbed by Saint Joseph’s. After opening with a 75, Larkin posted a sparkling 4-under 67 in Monday’s second round before closing with a 1-over 72 that left him in a tie for 12^th place with a 1-over 214 total.

   Freshman Christian Matt, a two-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier at Wissahickon, sandwiched a sparkling 4-under 67 in Monday’s second round with a pair of 77s.

   Graduate student J.T. Spina, a two-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier at Pope John Paul II, finished in the group tied for 44^th place with a 10-over 223 total for the Hawks. Spina opened with a solid 1-over 72, struggled to a 78 in Monday’s second round and closed with a 2-over 73.

   Another standout freshman, Keller Mulhern, who led the individual points race in the Inter-Ac League as a senior at Malvern Prep a year ago, closed with a solid 1-over 72 to finish among the group tied for 55^th place with a 226 total. Mulhern had struggled to a 78 in the opening round before adding a 5-over 76 in Monday’s second round.

   Rounding out the Saint Joseph’s lineup was Ryan Gorman, a junior from Greenville, S.C. who finished in a tie for 80^th place with a 242 total. Gorman couldn’t get it going in the opening round as he carded a 90 before bouncing back with a 4-over 75 in Monday’s second round and finishing up with a 77.

   Leading the way for Villanova was Ryan Pamer, a freshman from Hudson, Ohio, who has had an outstanding start to his college career this fall. Pamer finished in a tie for 16^th place with a 3-over 216 as he matched par in each of the final two rounds with a pair of 71s after opening with a 3-over 74.

   Peter Weaver, a junior from Frontenac, Mo., was also solid for the Wildcats as he finished in the group tied for 18^th place with a 4-over 217 total. Weaver matched par in Monday’s second round with a 71 after opening with a 1-over 72 and finished up with a 74.

   Jason Lohwater, a graduate student from Rochester, N.Y., closed with a solid 1-under 70 to land in the group tied for 27^th place a 6-over 219 total. Lohwater had opened with a 4-over 75 before adding a 74 in Monday’s second round.

   Kyle Kinnane, a graduate student from Anaheim Hills, Calif., finished in a tie for 75^th place with a 237 total as he added an 80 in Monday’s second round to his opening-round 81 before closing with a 5-over 76.

   Rounding out the Villanova lineup was Josh Lavely, a freshman from Kewadin, Mich. who finished alone in 82^nd place. Lavely bounced back from an opening-round 86 with a 6-over 77 in Monday’s second round before finishing up with an 80.