Ryan adds a Pennsylvania Amateur title at Oakmont to his glittering amateur record

 

   Josh Ryan had let it be known when he was in contention in the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Open Championship at Lancaster Country Club a couple of weeks ago that he was planning to turn pro by the end of the summer.

   He said if he earned his way into the U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club’s historic East Course, he would remain an amateur at least through that week.

   These final weeks of Ryan’s career as an amateur are going pretty well.

   Ryan, a Norristown native who is coming off a solid college career at Liberty, lost in a playoff to Drue Nicholas in the Philadelphia Open at LCC, but the following week, he did play his way into the U.S. Amateur in a GAP-administered Final Qualifier at Llanerch Country Club.

   Wednesday, on Pennsylvania’s other historic golf course, Oakmont Country Club, the Henry Fownes masterpiece in suburban Pittsburgh that has hosted 10 playings of the U.S. Open, Ryan closed with a gritty 2-under-par 69 to capture the title in the Pennsylvania Golf Association’s 113^th Amateur Championship with a 1-under 212 total.

   The winner of the Pennsylvania Amateur Championship earns a berth in the U.S. Amateur, but Ryan had already taken care of that last week at Llanerch. Some alternate somewhere has Ryan to thank for a spot in the field at Merion opening up.

   As is so often the case with Oakmont, even-par or, in Ryan’s case, 1-under, is more than enough to get the job done.

   Local knowledge is critical at Oakmont and a look at the final leaderboard bore that out as four of the top 11 finishers in the Pennsylvania Amateur were Oakmont members.

   Ryan got his local knowledge from a regular Oakmont caddy, David Sims, who has spent 27 years looping there. Ryan was smart enough to pay attention.

   It was in a PAGA major championship, the R. Jay Sigel Match Play Championship, where Ryan first proved himself, winning the title in 2020 at the Country Club of York as he was heading into his senior year of high school.

   He added a PAGA major crown in 2022 when he won the George Dressler Memorial and he almost grabbed another Sigel Match Play crown this summer when he lost to David Mecca, playing on his home course at the Country Club of Scranton, in a 20-hole thriller.

   Ryan, playing out of The 1912 Club, grabbed a share of the lead with an opening round of 2-under 69 Monday.

   Ryan made an early bogey at the third hole, but ripped off birdies at four, nine, 12 and 14 to get it to 3-under. He made back-to-back bogeys at the 15^th and 16^th before making a birdie at the short par-4 17^th to get it to the house at 2-under.

   Starting off the 10^th tee in Tuesday’s second round, Ryan struggled on Oakmont’s incoming nine with consecutive bogeys at the 13^th, 14^th and 15^th holes. Another bogey the third hole left Ryan at 4-over for the round, but he picked up his lone birdie of the day on his final hole, the ninth, that gave him a 3-over 74.

   Still, Ryan, at 1-over the tournament, was tied with three other players in third place, just two shots behind the leader, Carson Kittsley of Oakmont and the reigning two-time PIAA Class AAA champion with another year of high school to go at Fox Chapel, and a shot behind another Oakmont member in David Fuhrer II, a former Fox Chapel standout and a junior on the golf team at George Mason.

   Ryan got it going early in Wednesday’s final round with birdies at the third, fourth and seventh holes that got him to 2-under for the tournament.

   Ryan made a bogey at the eighth hole, but rebounded with back-to-back birdies at 11 and 12 that got him to 3-under for the tournament with six holes to go.

   Turned out, Ryan had enough of a cushion that he was able to make bogeys at the 14^th and 16^th holes and still finish three shots clear of runnerup Breckin Taylor of The Kahkwa Club.

   “It feels pretty good,” Ryan told the PAGA website. “It’s been a minute since I’ve hoisted a trophy, so it’s definitely nice to be back in the mix. It’s been nice to be home for the summer and playing PA stuff again.

   “This place was special. It got harder throughout the week as the pins and the weather got more challenging. I didn’t look at the leaderboard all day, so I had no idea until, on the last hole, my caddy said, ‘Well done, champ,’ and that was the first time I knew.”

   Ryan was greeted with a big hug from his mother Michelle. Walked a lot of fairways with Michelle when Josh Ryan was representing Norristown High during his scholastic career, but Ryan said this week was the first time this summer she had a chance to see him play.

   Sports parents can get a bad reputation sometimes, but Michelle Ryan is all class.

   Ryan couldn’t have had better preparation for the U.S. Amateur at Merion than three rounds at Oakmont. As I mentioned in a post last week on the qualifier at Llanerch, Ryan finished in a tie for fourth place when the Pennsylvania Amateur was held at Merion in 2021 when he was still only 17.

   One thing is certain. The moment won’t be too big for him.

   Taylor, a scholastic standout at Erie Cathedral Prep who is a senior at Dayton, closed with a 1-over 72 to earn runnerup honors with a 2-over 215 total.

   Taylor, who wrapped up his junior season by finishing in a tie for ninth place in the Atlantic 10 Championship at the Evermore Resort in Orlando, Fla. in April, had opened with a 2-over 73 and joined Ryan in the foursome tied for third place at 1-over going into the final round with a 1-under 70 in the second round.

   Kittsley had a share of the lead following an opening round of 2-under 69 and was alone at the top at 1-under after adding a 1-over 72 in Tuesday’s second round. Kittsley closed with a 4-over 75 to finish a shot behind Taylor in third place with a 3-over 216 total.

   Another Oakmont guy, Andrew Friend, was also in that group tied for third place through two rounds as he added a 2-under 69 in Tuesday’s second round to his opening round of 2-over 74.

   Friend closed with another 3-over 74 to finish a shot behind Kittsley in fourth place with a 4-over 217 total.

   Allegheny Country Club’s Austin Lemieux, son of Penguins great Mario Lemieux, was another shot behind Friend in fifth place with a 5-over 218 total. Lemieux added a solid 1-under 70 in Tuesday’s second round to his opening round of 4-over 75 before closing with a 73.

   The Pittsburgh Field Club’s Matthew Mattioli was also in that foursome tied for third place going into the final round as he had a share of the lead following an opening round of 2-under 69 and added a 3-ovder 74 in Tuesday’s second round.

   Mattioli closed with a 5-over 76 to finish alone in sixth place with a 6-over 219 total.

   Two more Oakmont members, Nathan Platt and Tom Nettles, shared seventh place with Huntingdon Valley Country Club’s Andy Butler, who starred scholastically at Manheim Township and collegiately at Villanova, as they all landed on 7-over 220.

   Platt sandwiched a 1-over 72 in Tuesday’s second round with a pair of 3-over 74s. Nettles opened with a 1-over 72 and added a 73 in the second round before closing with a 75.

   Butler added a solid 1-under 70 in Tuesday’s second round to his opening round of 5-over 76 before closing with a 74.

   RiverCrest Golf Club & Preserve’s Chase Yenser, coming off a run to the second round of match play in last week’s U.S. Junior Amateur at Saucon Valley Country Club, earned a top-10 finish as he shared 10^th place with Ambrose Abbracciamento, who closed out his college career at Villanova, each ending up with an 8-over 221 total.

   Yenser, a recent Daniel Boone graduate who will join the program at Big 12 power Baylor next month, edged Kittsley by a shot to capture the title in the Pennsylvania Junior Boys’ Championship last month at Hershey Country Club’s East Course.

   Yenser was very much in the hunt after recording back-to-back 1-over 72s in the first two rounds before closing with a 6-over 77.

   Abbracciamento, a USGA/GAP entry, had grabbed a share of the lead with his opening round of 2-under 69. He added a 7-over 78 in Tuesday’s second round before closing with a 74.

   Oakmont’s Fuhrer, a member of one of the first families of Pittsburgh area amateur golf, was just a shot behind Kittsley going into the final round after Fuhrer had added a 2-under 69 in Tuesday’s second round to his opening round of 2-over 73.

   But Fuhrer struggled in the final round with an 80 to finish among the group tied for 12^th place with a 9-over 222 total.

 

 

 

 

Dunigan captures Pennsylvania Amateur title at Gulph Mills, heading a strong showing for Delaware contingent

 

   Patty Post, the director of golf programs at the University of Delaware, had to be smiling when she scanned the final leaderboard in the 90^th Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur Championship last week at Gulph Mills Golf Club, the venerable Donald Ross design nestled among the busy highways that intersect in Upper Merion Township.

   It was a Blue Hen, senior Mary Grace Dunigan, holding the winner’s trophy after finishing five shots clear of a typically tough field with a 6-under-par 216 total for a deceptively easy victory.

   The win means Dunigan will represent Delaware in next week’s U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn.

   But that was only part of the picture from Post’s standpoint. Delaware accounted for four of the top seven finishers at Gulph Mills and a fifth player ended up inside the top 20. That’s a pretty good representation for a Delaware team that finished in second place in the Conference USA Championship at Stonebriar Country Club’s Fazio Course in Frisco, Texas in April in the Blue Hens’ first year in the conference.

   This was Dunigan’s week right from the start at Gulph Mills, though. The daughter of John Dunigan, named the Philadelphia Section PGA’s Teacher & Coach of the Year for a fifth time in 2025, Mary Grace Dunigan, playing out of Kennett Square Golf & Country Club, grabbed a share of the lead with Merion Golf Club’s Jackie Rogowicz with an opening round of 3-under 71.

   Dunigan began her week by making an eagle at the short, par-5 opening hole at Gulph Mills. After a bogey at the fifth hole, she made a birdie at seven and gave back another shot with a bogey at 10 before birdies at 12 and 13 got her to 3-under for the round.

   Dunigan pulled away from the field on the strength of a 2-under 72 in the second round. She made a couple of early birdies at the fifth and eighth holes, faltered briefly with a double bogey at the tough ninth, but rebounded with birdies at 10 and 18 that gave her a five-shot lead going into the final round.

   A 1-under 73 in the final round, which wrapped up July 22^nd, enabled Dunigan, who led Unionville to the PIAA Class AAA team crown as a sophomore in 2020, to hold off all her pursuers.

   Dunigan got off to a fast start in the final round with birdies at the second, fourth and seventh holes to get to 8-under for the tournament.

   Dunigan stumbled with back-to-back bogeys at the ninth and 10^th holes, but got a shot back with a birdie at 11 before a triple bogey at the par-3 14^th dropped her back to 4-under for the tournament.

   Dunigan righted the ship with birdies at the 15^th and Gulph Mills’ par-5 finisher to get it back to 6-under.

   Turned out the biggest run at Dunigan came from Michelle Cox, a three-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier at Emmaus who starred at Penn State and always seems to contend in this championship.

   Cox had opened with a 2-over 76 and matched par in the second round with a 74. But she shot out of the gate in the final round with an eagle at the first, a birdie at two and another eagle at three.

   Cox made a bogey at the fourth hole, but went back-to-back with birdies at seven and eight. After a bogey at the ninth hole, Cox made a birdie at the 12^th hole and stood at 4-under for the championship.

   Cox’s stunning rally ran out of steam after that as she made bogeys at 14, 15 and 16 and a double bogey at 17 before finishing up with a bogey at 18. It added up to an even-par 74 that left her alone in sixth place with a 2-over 224 total.

   Dunigan’s Delaware teammate, Marissa Malosh, a PAGA individual member, and LuLu Country Club’s Megan Meng shared second place, each ending up with a 1-under 221 total.

   Malosh, a two-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier at South Fayette in western Pennsylvania, added a pair of 1-under 73s in the final two rounds after opening with a 1-over 75.

   Dunigan and Malosh led the way for Delaware in the Conference USA Championship as each ended up in the group tied for sixth place in the individual standings.

   Meng, who starred scholastically at Hopewell Valley Central in Pennington, N.J., is coming off a solid sophomore season with Big Ten power Northwestern. The Wildcats finished in fourth place as a six seed in the Ann Arbor Regional to punch their ticket to the NCAA Championship at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.

   After opening with a 1-under 73, Meng struggled a little in the second round with a 4-over 78 before finishing strong with a 4-under 70 that enabled her to get a share of second place with Malosh at 1-under.

   Delaware junior Kate Roberts, tagging her PAGA individual membership with her home course at Turtle Creek, finished in fourth place, a shot behind Malosh and Meng with an even-par 222 total.

   Kate Roberts, a three-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier during an outstanding scholastic career at Phoenixville, opened with a solid 2-under 72, but, like Meng, struggled in the second round with a 3-over 77 in the second round before closing with a 1-under 73.

   Kate Roberts’ younger sister, Kayley Roberts, will join Post’s Delaware program as a freshman in a few weeks.

   Kayley Roberts, a four-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier and a runaway winner of the District One Class AAA crown last fall in her senior season at Phoenixville, finished a shot behind Cox in seventh place with a 3-over 225 total.

   Kayley Roberts opened with a 1-under 73 and added a 1-over 75 in the second round before finishing up with a 77.

   The Roberts sisters teamed up to lead Phoenixville to the PIAA Class AAA team crown in 2022. Kate and Kayley also proved to be a solid team in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship at the Daniel Island Club in Charleston, S.C. in May as they earned a spot in the match-play bracket before falling in the opening round.

   A fifth member of the Delaware golf team, sophomore Rhianna Gooneratne, the PIAA Class AAA champion in 2023 as a junior at Plymouth-Whitemarsh, finished in a tie for 19^th place at Gulph Mills with a 13-over 235 total.

   All of which made Dunigan, who began her college journey at William & Mary before transferring to Delaware, thrilled to get to share her victory with her fellow Blue Hens and her many other friends in the field.

   “It was so nice to have so many people that I just really love to be here at this tournament,” Dunigan told the PAGA website. “I think that’s why I’m here and why I love golf. It’s because I really enjoy the people I get to spend time with.”

   Defending champion Hannah Rabb, coming off a solid sophomore season at Penn State after transferring to Happy Valley from James Madison, finished a shot behind Kate Roberts in fifth place at Gulph Mills with a 1-over 223 total.

   Rabb, the PIAA Class AA champion in 2022 as a junior at Warrior Run, matched par in the opening round with a 74 and added a 3-over 77 in the second round before closing with a solid 2-under 72.

   Rogowicz, a two-time Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur champion, once in 2019 when it was still contested at match play and again in 2022 as a stroke-play event, finished in a tie for eighth place with Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Addie Chang, a former Episcopal Academy standout who was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year following her freshman season at Fairfield, each ending up a shot behind Kayley Roberts with a 4-over 226 total.

   Rogowicz, who starred scholastically at Pennsbury and collegiately at Penn State, got it going in the opening round as she earned a share of the lead with Dunigan at 3-under.

   After making a bogey at the first hole, Rogowicz rattled off birdies at three, eight and 10. She made a bogey at the 11^th hole to fall back to 1-under for the round before birdies at 12 and 17 got her to 3-under.

   Rogowicz struggled in the final two rounds, posting a 5-over 79 in the second round before closing with a 76.

   The day after the Pennsylvania Women’s Am, Rogowicz carded a 1-under 72 at Brookside Country Club of Allentown to punch her ticket to the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, which tees off Aug. 29 at Montclair Golf Club in West Orange, N.J.

   Saw a lot of Rogowicz when the U.S. Women’s Mid-Am was staged at Stonewall’s North Course in 2023. She reached the semifinals before falling to Kelsey Chugg, the 2017 U.S. Women’s Mid-Am champion and twice a beaten finalist, including in 2023 at Stonewall.

   Rogowicz has proven she can compete with the best mid-ams in the country.

   Chang recorded back-to-back 2-over 76s in the first two rounds at Gulph Mills before matching par in the final round with a 74.

   Another strong showing in a Pennsylvania Women’s Am for Overbrook Golf Club’s Kiersten Bodge, a senior at Notre Dame Academy, as she shared 10^th place with Whitemarsh Valley Country Club’s Clare Gimpel, a former Mount St. Joseph standout who wrapped up her college career at Florida Southern in the spring, as they both landed on 6-over 228.

   Bodge, the Inter-Ac League and Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association champion while wrapping up her junior season in May, had finished in ninth place in the Pennsylvania Women’s Am at Waynesborough Country Club two summers ago.

   So, two top-10s in the Pennsylvania Women’s Am with a year of high school golf still to go is pretty strong.

   Bodge, who plans to join the Penn State program in the summer of 2027, opened with a 2-over 76 and added a 78 in the second round before matching par in the final round with a 74.

   Gimpel was very much in the hunt after opening with a 2-under 72, but she struggled to an 80 in the second round before closing with a 2-over 76.

   Wildwood Golf Club’s Alyssa Zhang, the Shady Side Academy junior who ran away with the title in the Pennsylvania Junior Girls’ Championship by 12 shots at Lebanon Country Club last month, finished alone in 12^th place at Gulph Mills with an 8-over 230 total.

   Zhang sandwiched a 2-over 76 in the second round with a pair of 77s.

   The victory at Lebanon earned Zhang a trip to the U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship at Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham, N.C., where she posted a pair of 2-over 74s, her 4-over 148 total leaving her just a shot short of a playoff for the final two spots in the match-play bracket.

   In the Mid-Amateur division, which wrapped up July 21^st, Lauren Klick of DuPont Country Club added a 3-over 77 in the second round to her solid opening round of 1-over 74 as she claimed the title with a 4-over 152 total.

   Katrin Wolfe of Northampton Country Club earned runnerup honors as she finished two shots behind Klick with a 6-over 154 total. Wolfe added a 2-over 76 in the second round to her opening-round 78.

   Wolfe, a collegiate standout at Penn State, remains active in the business of golf as a sales representative for a leading green industry distributor after spending some time as a field staff representative for the Mid-Atlantic region for the Golf Course Superintendents of America.

   After surviving a playoff to earn a spot in the match-play bracket in the 2023 U.S. Women’s Mid-Am at Stonewall, Wolfe reached the round of 16.

   Honeybrook Golf Club’s Barbora Millichip was just a shot behind Klick following an opening round of 2-over 76. She added an 82 in the second round to finish in third place with a 10-over 158 total.

   Philly Cricket’s Stephenie Harris cruised to the Senior Amateur crown by seven shots as she added a 4-over 78 in the second round to her opening-round 80 for a 158 total.

   Sunnybrook Golf Club’s Lisa McGill, a five-time Pennsylvania Senior Amateur winner, captured the title in the Super-Senior division for the first time in a playoff with Honeybrook’s Lisa Day.

   Day had grabbed a two-shot lead on the strength of a 1-over 75 in the opening round before adding a 78 in the second round. After opening with a 77, McGill added a 2-over 76 in the second round to catch Day at 5-over 153.

   Huntsville Golf Club’s Barb Pagana, a three-time Pennsylvania Super-Senior champion, finished a shot out of the playoff at 154 as she added a 2-over 76 in the second round to her opening-round 78.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifer finishes strong to claim a Philly Junior Tour victory at Newark

 

   Ben Fifer of Wyoming, Del. carded a solid 1-over-par 72 at Newark Country Club to capture a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour victory in the 16-to-18 division July 13^th.

   It was a busy day for the Philly Junior Tour as it also staged an event in Reading at The Berkshire Country Club.

   Fifer made birdies at the second, 10^th and 15^th holes and had 11 pars on his scorecard. Fifer toured the incoming nine in 1-under 35 to hold onto his lead.

   Frank Kunze, a junior on the Garnet Valley golf team, made birdies on the sixth, 11^th, 15^th and 18^th holes and had eight pars on his card, including a string of four straight pars from seven through 10, as he earned runnerup honors with a 2-over 73 that left him a shot behind Fifer.

   Kunze toured the outgoing nine at Newark in even-par 35.

   Caiden Jordan of Rising Sun, Md. made birdies at the 10^th and 15^th holes and had 11 pars on his card as he finished a shot behind Kunze in third place with a 3-over 74. Jordan toured the incoming nine in even-par 36.

   Shane Cornell, a District One Class AAA qualifier as a junior at Avon Grove last fall, took fourth place with a 76 and Jack Ferm, a District One Class AAA qualifier as a junior at Garnet Valley last fall, finished a shot behind Cornell in fifth with a 77.

   Jack Tunnell of Lewes, Del. and K.J. DeSantis, a senior on the West Chester Rustin golf team, shared sixth place, each signing for a 78 and Robert Rittereiser, a sophomore on the Salesianum golf team, was eighth with a 79.

   Rittereiser was coming off a Philly Junior Tour victory the previous week at Medford Lakes Country Club.

   Rounding out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division was the trio of Landon Wolfe of Middletown, Del., Everett Harrold, a senior on the Central York golf team, and Grady O’Hair of Downingtown as they finished in a tie for ninth place, each recording an 80.

   O’Hair, the son of PGA Tour pro Sean O’Hair, is a junior at Malvern Prep and plays football for the Friars.

   Liam Woznicki, a sophomore on the Hazleton golf team, made birdies on the fourth and sixth holes and had 11 pars on his scorecard, including a run of five straight pars from seven through 11, as he earned a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 13-to-15 division with a 3-over 74.

   Woznicki’s early birdies helped him tour the outgoing nine at Newark in 1-under 34.

   Charlie Wei of Cochranville ripped off three straight birdies at the second, third and fourth holes, added another birdie at 14 and had seven pars on his card as he finished two shots behind Woznicki in second place with a 5-over 76.

   Jacob Russell of Wilmington, Del. and Dean Matta of West Grove shared third place, each registering a 78.

   Russell had 13 pars on his card, including a string of four straight pars from the 13^th through the 16^th holes. Matta had 12 pars on his card, closing out his round with five straight pars.

   Michael Perry, another Wilmington, Del. guy, took fifth place with a 79, Reed Starzecki of Bryn Mawr was sixth with an 81 and Chase Fogli of Wayne was seventh with an 83.

   Jack Venne of Moorestown, N.J. and Mason Arnold of Ambler shared ninth place, each tallying an 84, and Matthew Pilcher, another Wilmington, Del. entry, rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as he finished 10^th with an 85.

   Nicole Tarquinio of Bridgeton, N.J. made birdies at the third and 18^th holes and had 11 pars on her scorecard, including a run of six straight pars from 12 through 17, as she posted a solid 4-over 75 that gave her a Philly Junior Tour victory in the girls 16-to-18 division.

   Tarquinio finished strong, touring Newark’s incoming nine in even-par 36.

   Annie Corrigan, a Huntingdon Valley resident and a junior on the Mount St. Joseph golf team, made birdies at the second and 15^th holes and had six pars on her card as she earned runnerup honors with an 84.

   Patty Post, the director of golf programs at Delaware, could drop her daughter, Kiera Post, a junior on the Avon Grove golf team, off at Newark on her way to her office. Kiera Post made a birdie at the second hole and had six pars on her card as she finished in third place with an 86.

   Brooke Burge, a senior on the Appoquinimink golf team, took fourth place with an 87, Emmerson Gleber, a senior on the golf team at The Charter School of Wilmington, was fifth with an 88 and Madeline VanBuskirk, a senior on the Pocono Mountain East golf team, rounded out the field in the girls 16-to-18 division as she finished sixth with a 90.

   Lanie Whitehead of Swedesboro, N.J. had six pars on her scorecard as she finished at the top of the leaderboard in the 13-to-15 division with a 95.

   Mae Racowski of Newtown Square made a birdie at the 17^th hole and added a par at 16 as she earned runnerup honors with a 101.

   Karena Boyd of Kennett Square rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she finished in third place with a 129.

   Brody Rollins of Milton, Del. had seven pars on his scorecard, rattling them off consecutively from the second through the eighth holes, as he headed a strong group of Delaware youngsters in the boys 12-and-under division with a 2-over 37.

   James Wilson of Wilmington, Del. had three pars on his card as he took second place among the boys 12-and-under nine-holers with a 6-over 41.

   Victor Wang of Hockessin, Del. had four pars on his card as he finished a shot behind Wilson in third place with a 42.

   A couple of Wilmington, Del. guys, Julian Kelley and Caelan Gillen, shared fourth place, each recording a 43, and another Wilmington, Del. entry, Jackson Larrabee, finished in a tie for sixth with Landon Post, another member of Lincoln University’s Team Post, each tallying a 44.

   Chris Pilcher, another member of Team Pilcher out of Wilmington, Del., and Kelly Salvesen of Cape May Court House, N.J. finished in a tie for eighth place, each registering a 46.

   Rounding out the field in the boys 12-and-under division were Conrad Kelley, another member of Team Kelley out of Wilmington, Del., and Quinn Haberman of Ocean View, N.J. as they finished in a tie for 10^th place, each carding a 50.

   Aashi Chakraborty of Kennett Square was the lone entry in the girls 12-and-under division and she made pars at the fifth and eighth holes on her way to a 52.