Luke Tappeiner of Northfield, N.J. put together a solid 4-over-par 73 at Middletown Country Club to finish at the top of the leaderboard in the 16-to-18 division Saturday and claim a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour victory.
Tappeiner made a birdie on the fourth hole and had 12 pars on his scorecard. Tappeiner was really solid in closing out the victory as he rattled off eight straight pars from the 10th through the 17th holes on the incoming nine at the par-69 Middletown layout.
Matthew Morris of Haddonfield, N.J. also made a birdie at the fourth hole and had eight pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with an 8-over 77 that left him three shots behind Tappeiner.
Strath Haven sophomore Davis Fairbanks had 10 pars on his card, including a stretch of six in a row from the fourth through the ninth holes to finish in third place with an 83.
Johan Tuerff of West Chester and Sean Mariano of Lansdale shared fourth place, each landing on 87, West Chester Rustin sophomore Nick Linkchorst took sixth with a 90, Kasimere McManus of Quakertown was seventh with a 91 and Campbell Swart of Southampton, N.J. was eighth with a 93.
Joe Rigolizzo of Radnor took ninth place with a 94 and Emmett Phillips III of Langhorne rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division as he finished alone in 10th place with a 108.
Charles Carney of Levittown made a birdie on the fourth hole and had nine pars on his scorecard as he earned a victory in the 13-to-15 division with a 9-over 78.
Jack Luterman of Ardmore matched Carney’s birdie at the fourth hole, added another birdie at 17 and had four pars on his card as he finished in second place with an 82.
Haverford School freshman Sean Curran made a birdie on the eighth hole and had nine pars on his card, six of them on Middletown’s incoming nine, as he finished in third place with an 83.
Liam McFadden of Bryn Mawr and Jackson Lane of Cinnaminson, N.J. shared fourth place, each landing on 87 and Joseph Solt of Kunkletown and Chase Gillie of Newtown ended up in a tie for sixth place, each recording a 90.
Ty Sheftic of Blue Bell took eighth place with a 91 and Zachary Daniels of Bryn Mawr was ninth with a 94.
Rounding out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division were Radnor High freshman Brad McDermott and Carter Hippauf of Quakertown as they finished in a tie for 10th place, each carding a 96.
Archbishop Wood senior Lola Barnett, who made her second straight trip to the PIAA Class AAA Championship last fall, captured top honors in the girls 16-to-18 division as she had seven pars on her scorecard on her way to an 82.
Germantown Academy sophomore Kiran Bagga made a birdie on the 15th hole and had four pars on her card as she finished in second place with a solid 87. Mia Jackson of Villanova had back-to-back pars on the third and fourth holes as she finished in third place with a 102.
Rounding out the field in the 16-to-18 division was Lea Babio of Quakertown as she finished in fourth place with a 126.
Much of Saturday was a continuation of last week’s suddenly summer-like temperatures, but scattered thunderstorms hit Bucks County particularly hard late in the afternoon and the girls in the 13-to-15 division got chased off the golf course after completing 15 holes.
Zoey Zhu of Basking Ridge, N.J. finished first among the younger girls with a 16-over 73 for 15 holes. Zhu had six pars on her scorecard, including five pars in a row from the fifth through the ninth holes.
Elayne Fanelli of Villanova had two pars as she finished six shots behind Zhu in second place with a 79. Amelia Nace of Furlong took third place as she had three pars on her card on her way to an 81.
Kasey O’Brien of Linwood, N.J. took fourth place with an 88, Mariana Walker of Richboro was fifth with a 92 and Christina St. Pierre of Yardley rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she was sixth with a 105.
Trebor Melendez of Vineland, N.J. made a birdie on the second hole and had five pars on his scorecard as he bested the field of nine-holers with a solid 2-over 37.
Jason Leekley of Moorestown, N.J. made a birdie at the seventh hole and had four pars on his card as he finished a shot behind Melendez in second place with a 3-over 38. Henry Sokol of Villanova had four pars on his card as he finished in third place with a 41.
Rayan Shah of Newtown took fourth place with a 42, William Quartermain of Bryn Mawr was fifth with a 44 and Taimoor Naseem of Sinking Spring and John (Jack) Shea of Harleysville shared sixth, each landing on 48.
David Padgett of Barnegat, N.J. took eighth place with a 46 and Adam Revness of Yardley was ninth with a 47.
Rounding out the top 10 in the coed 12-and-under division was Jack Sokol, another member of Villanova’s Team Sokol, as he finished alone in 10th place with a 48.
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