Herzchel unfazed by the cold and wind in a Junior Tour victory at Cape May National

    While the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour moved just a few miles down the South Jersey coast from Saturday’s stop at Avalon Golf Club to Sunday’s event at Cape May National Golf Club, the junior players faced wildly different weather conditions than they had less than 24 earlier.

   Saturday’s temperatures in the 70s with a warm breeze were replaced overnight by cold temperatures and stiff, cold winds. Hey, it’s November, it was going to happen eventually.

   Daniel Herzchel of Linwood, N.J. seemed to thrive in the cold weather as he made a birdie on the ninth hole and had 13 pars on his scorecard, opening his round with a string of six straight pars, as he posted the best score of the day among the guys, a 4-over-par 75, to claim first place in the 13-to-15 division.

   Herzchel was coming off a runnerup finish among the younger guys in Saturday’s Philly Junior Tour stop at Avalon.

   Keller Tannehill of Margate, N.J. switched places with Herzchel as Tannehill, who earned a Philly Junior Tour win Saturday at Avalon, was the runnerup at Cape May National with an 81. Tannehill made a birdie on the 14^th hole and had 10 pars on his card, including a run of five in a row from the sixth through the 10^th holes.

   Joseph Gangemi Jr. of Downingtown had six pars on his card as he finished in third place, six shots behind Tannehill with an 87.

   Boyertown sophomore Chase Dillman took fourth place with an 88, Trevor Sieben of Medford, N.J. was fifth, Tyler Whitney of Cherry Hill, N.J. was sixth with a 90 and Luke Tappeiner of Northfield, N.J. was seventh with a 93.

   Michael Doyle of Haddonfield, N.J. took eighth place with a 95, Drake Brogan of Ocean View, N.J. was ninth with a 96 and P.J. Foley of Northfield, N.J. rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as he finished alone in 10^th place with a 97.

   Archbishop Carroll junior Jake Johnson was another player who seemed unbothered by the sudden shift in seasons as he hung around after getting a share of second place at Avalon and finished atop the leaderboard in the 16-to-18 division with a solid 5-over 76 over the par-71 Cape May National layout.

   Johnson, a Wayne resident, made a birdie at the 10^th hole and had 11 pars on his scorecard in recording the second-best score in the two boys divisions.

   Joseph Fargnoli of Mickleton, N.J. made birdies at the third and seventh holes and had seven pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with a 78. Johnny Neveling of Egg Harbor Township, N.J. had nine pars on his card as he finished in third place with an 86.

   Patrick McGonigle of Broomall took fourth place with an 87 and Owen Doyle of Galloway, N.J. and David Birmingham of Reading finished in a tie for fifth, each signing for an 89.

   Owen Wise of Downingtown took seventh place with a 92 and Springfield senior J.P. Devinney, a Morton resident, rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division by finishing eighth with a 98.

   Sophia DeSantis of Glen Mills made it a clean sweep of the weekend at the Shore as she endured the cold and wind to make six pars on her way to an 86 that gave her a Philly Junior Tour win in the 16-to-18 division. DeSantis had recorded an 82 Saturday at Avalon in more favorable conditions for golf to claim a victory.

   Isabella Magno of Delran, N.J. made three straight pars at the 11^th, 12^th and 13^th holes as she gutted out a 103 to finish as the runnerup to DeSantis for the second day in a row while rounding out a short field in the 16-to-18 division.

   All four finishers in the 13-to-15 division made a weekend of it at the Jersey Shore with Mina Benedetto of West Chester ending up with three pars on her scorecard as she earned a Philly Junior Tour victory with a 94.

   Sarah Stumacher of Gladwyne and Makayla Stone of Garnet Valley finished in a tie for second place, each ending up two shots behind Benedetto with a 96. Stumacher had two pars on her card while Stone recorded three pars.

   Kasey O’Brien of Linwood, N.J. rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she finished in fourth place with a 112.

   Stumacher was the runnerup Saturday at Avalon while Benedetto took third place, Stone was fourth and O’Brien landed in fifth place.

   Trebor Melendez of Vineland, N.J. continued his recent run of solid play by besting the field of nine-holers with a 1-over 36. It was a really solid showing by Melendez in the difficult conditions as he made eight pars with a bogey at the third hole the only blemish on his scorecard.

   Melendez claimed a Philly Junior Tour victory in a stop last weekend at Deerfield Golf Club and was coming off a third-place finish Saturday at Avalon.

   Winston Chew of Exton made a birdie at the sixth hole and had three pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with a 6-over 41.

   Benjamin Allwein of Annville completed a solid weekend at the Shore as made a par on the third hole on his way to a 45 that left him alone in third place. Benjamin Allwein was coming off a Philly Junior Tour victory Saturday at Avalon.

   Nicholas Fargnoli of Team Fargnoli out of Mickleton, N.J. and Jameson Foreman of Somers Point, N.J. shared fourth place, each landing on 46.

   David Padgett of Barnegat, N.J. took sixth place with a 49, Jefferson Allwein, another member of Annville’s Team Allwein, was seventh with a 51, Gabriella Magno, a member of Team Magno out of Delran, N.J., was eighth with a 53 and Ethan Clouser of Newtown was ninth with a 54.

   Rounding out the top 10 in the coed 12-and-under division were Michael Lyons of Media and Bradan Boal of Woodbine, N.J., each of whom carded a 56 to finish in a tie for 10^th place.