Dillman is par for the course at Paxon Hollow to claim a Philly Junior Tour win

 

   Pretty sure the high school golf season is under way by now, but Chase Dillman took some momentum into his senior season at Boyertown with some solid showings on the Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour.

   Dillman matched par with a 71 at Paxon Hollow, the classic layout in the heart of Delaware County in Marple Township, to claim a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 16-to-18 division Aug. 8^th. Dillman had finished atop the division of older guys three days earlier when he matched par with a 72 at Brookside Country Club.

   Dillman had only one birdie at Paxon Hollow, at the short par-3 second hole, but he was a par machine with 16 of them on his scorecard, including 11 pars in a row to finish out his round beginning at the eighth.

   Kieran Gillespie, a junior on the Haverford High golf team, made an early birdie on the fifth hole, then went back-to-back with birdies at 10 and 11 and then back-to-back again with birdies at 16 and 17 as he finished a shot behind Dillman in second place with a 1-over 72. Gillespie had seven pars on his card.

   Archbishop Carroll senior Jason DiRita, a Media resident, made birdies at the third, ninth and 16^th holes and had 11 pars on her card as he finished a shot behind Gillespie in third place with a 2-over 73.

   Kie Shaw of Wilmington, Del. and Christopher Parrish of Woolwich Township, N.J. shared fourth place, each posting a 3-over 74 and Luca Kleinschmidt, a junior on the Strath Haven golf team, finished sixth with a 4-over 75.

   Logan Hensel of Mickleton, N.J. and Pierce Murphy of Ardmore shared seventh place, each tallying a 76, Penncrest graduate Ryan Anderson was ninth with a 77 and Conestoga senior Chris Sung rounded out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division as he finished 10^th with a 78.

   A couple of Episcopal Academy’s top returnees, sophomore Liam Crowley and junior Freddy Hartmann, had strong showings in the 13-to-15 division at Paxon Hollow.

   Crowley, a Wayne resident, finished at the top of the leaderboard among the younger guys as he made a birdie on the 10^th hole and had 14 pars on his scorecard, including a string of seven straight pars from the 11^th through the 17^th holes, on his way to a solid 2-over 73.

   Hartmann, a Devon resident who was coming off a victory in the 13-to-15 division three days earlier at Brookside, made birdies at the seventh and 17^th holes and had 12 pars on his card as he finished in third place with a 5-over 76.

   Quinn Gallagher of Bryn Mawr made a birdie at the sixth hole and had 13 pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with a 4-over 75 that left him two shots behind Crowley and one ahead of Hartmann.

   Charles Ball of West Chester took fourth place with a 77, Kellen Toussant of Lansdale was fifth with a 79 and Henry Sokol of Villanova, coming off Philly Junior Tour victories at Kimberton Golf Club and Woodstone Country Club & Lodge, and Ryan Kelly of Harleysville, finished in a tie for sixth, each signing for an 80.

   Patrick Rode, playing close to his Broomall home, and Nicholas Milone of Bryn Mawr, shared eighth place, each recording an 82, and Quinn Reger of Wayne rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as he finished 10^th with an 83.

   Looks like some weather forced the girls 13-to-15 division to be halted after 16 holes, but Agnes Irwin sophomore Anna Rufo had the best round of the day going among the girls as she claimed a Philly Junior Tour victory with an 8-over 72 total.

   Rufo, a Gladwyne resident and a product of the junior program at Philadelphia Country Club, made a birdie at third hole and had seven pars on her scorecard.

   Vidushi Gupta of Malvern finished a shot behind Rufo in second place with a 9-over 73 total for 16 holes as she made back-to-back birdies at the ninth and 10^th holes and had seven pars on her card.

   Megan Choi of Penn Valley had eight pars on her card as she finished four shots behind Gupta in third place with a 77.

   Marietta Hartmann, another member of Devon’s Team Hartmann, took fourth place with a 79, Hadley Stetson of Newtown Square was fifth with an 87 and Kirsten Weiss of Oreland rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division with a 101.

   Charlotte Anstine of Chester Springs made a birdie at the ninth hole and had six pars on her scorecard as she earned a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 16-to-18 division with a 93.

   Nicole Tarquinio of Bridgeton, N.J. rounded out a short field in the 16-to-18 division as she made pars on the second and 11^th holes to finish in second place with a 114.

   Xunnan Dang of Newtown Square made birdies at the first, third and sixth holes and had three pars on his scorecard as he bested the field of nine-holers with a 2-over 37.

   Niko Muego of Bryn Mawr made a birdie on the sixth hole and had three pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with a 4-over 39. Muego had gained a share of the title in the Philly Junior Tour’s 12-and-under Championship a week earlier at McCall Golf Club.

   Bobby Stefanski, another Newtown Square entry, made pars on his first five holes as he finished a shot behind Muego in third place with a 40.

   Ty Thompson of Devault took fourth place with a 42 and the trio of Samuel Karas of Blue Bell, Luca Dutton of Springfield and Steven Musacchio of Glenmoore finished in a tie for fifth place, each recording a 46.

   Claire Malbacho of Haverford and Joseph Charpentier of Schwenksville ended up in a tie for eighth place, each posting a 47, Andrew DeElia of Clarks Summit was 10^th with a 52 and Nolan English of Villanova rounded out the field in the coed 12-and-under division as he finished 11^th with a 53.