Sako defeats Boyd in a playoff in a battle of Central stars in the Christman Cup at RiverCrest

 

   Lower Merion’s Seiji Sako and Radnor’s Lannon Boyd were two of the Central League’s top players the last three falls.

   With their careers as junior golfers winding down, Sako and Boyd went head-to-head in the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s 27^th Christman Cup at the RiverCrest Golf Club & Preserve July 21^st.

   The Christman Cup is always scheduled as a one-day, 36-hole stroke-play shootout, but late July weather being what it is in our part of the world, Mother Nature often prevents the top junior golfers in the area from getting in two rounds.

   Such was the case this year as an afternoon thunderstorm halted play in the second round and the event was limited to just 18 holes.

   Sako and Boyd both put together solid rounds of 4-under-par 67 over the 6,518-yard, par-71 RiverCrest layout in the morning and a playoff was needed to determine the champion.

   Sako and Boyd waited until the weather passed and headed to the tee at 5:45 p.m. at RiverCrest’s 340-yard, par-4 opener, where a par by Sako gave him the title.

   “It’s been a great summer for me,” Sako told the GAP website. “I think I’ve had a lot great finishes, but I haven’t really put all the rounds together. I know this one got cut short, but it still feels good to get one done.”

   Sako was always at his best during his scholastic career during the postseason. Each of the last three falls, he earned a trip to the PIAA Class AAA Championship at Penn State. His tie for fourth place as a sophomore in the fall of 2023 was the best finish among the District One contingent at Penn State’s Blue Course.

   Sako is headed for Penn State and hopes to get a shot to join the golf team as a walk-on. I’d say the kid deserves a look.

   Boyd, who will join the program at Saint Joseph’s later this summer, was the co-medalist in the Central League Championship last fall in his senior season, duplicating a feat he had accomplished as a sophomore in 2023. Boyd had been unable to take the final step to the state tournament until last fall when he took care of that little missing piece on his scholastic resume by earning a trip to Penn State.

   It has been a solid summer for Sako and not just in junior events.

   He qualified for the BMW Philadelphia Amateur Championship and earned a spot in the match-play bracket in qualifying rounds at Sunnybrook Golf Club and The 1912 Club. Sako also qualified for the Philadelphia Open at Lancaster Country Club a couple of weeks ago and survived the 18-hole cut.

   Those two accomplishments alone would make for a pretty good summer of golf for any amateur in the Philadelphia area.

   Sako also earned a spot in the match-play bracket in GAP’s Junior Boys’ Championship at Chester Valley Golf Club before falling in the first round.

   One thing I’ve noticed in following Boyd and Sako in the Central League Championships at Turtle Creek Golf Course: They can send it, especially off the tee, and their power was every much in evidence at RiverCrest.

   Starting off the 10^th tee at RiverCrest, Sako got off to a fast start, hitting a 52-degree wedge from 104 yards away at the 375-yard, par-4 10^th to 20 feet and draining the birdie try and then driving the green at the 335-yard, par-4 11^th and two-putting for birdie.

   After dropping a shot with a bogey at the 12^th hole, Sako got back to 2-under by reaching the green at the 550-yard, par-5 16^th in two with a 9-iron from 177 yards away and two-putting for a birdie.

   Sako dropped a shot with a bogey at the first hole, but rebounded quickly with birdies at the second and third holes to get it to 3-under for his round.

   Sako reached the green at the 520-yard, par-5 second hole in two with a 7-iron from 207 yards away and two-putted from 30 feet. He stuck a 9-iron at the 167-yard, par-3 third hole to three feet and converted the birdie try.

   Sako needed one more birdie and he got it at the 307-yard, par-4 ninth hole, sending a 5-wood to a greenside bunker and getting it up and down.

   Boyd’s length was on display when he reached the green at the par-5 16^th hole with a 5-iron from 204 yards away and dropped a 30-foot bomb for eagle to highlight his round.

   White Manor Country Club’s Logan Turner, a sophomore on the Devon Prep golf team, and Overbrook Golf Club’s Freddy Hartmann, a senior on the Episcopal Academy golf team, shared third place, each posting a 3-under 68 to end up a shot out of the playoff.

   Turner finished in a tie for 15^th place in the PIAA Class AA Championship as a freshman last fall. Hartmann played a big role in helping the Churchmen capture the Inter-Ac League crown last fall.

   A couple of RiverCrest guys, Colby Komancheck, a senior on the Malvern Prep golf team, and Timothy Burns headed a group of five players tied for fifth place at even-par 71.

   Komancheck, the son of Jamie and Kelly Komancheck, the husband-wife team of PGA professionals who man the pro shop at RiverCrest, has been one of the Inter-Ac’s top players during his first three years with the Friars.

   Komancheck captured the individual title in the Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association Championship at Radley Run Country Club, helping Malvern Prep get a share of the team crown, to cap his junior season last fall.

   Komancheck and Burns were joined at even-par by a couple of members of the golf team at Catholic League power La Salle, North Hills Country Club’s Kellen Toussaint and Philmont Country Club’s Benjamin Robbins, and Saucon Valley Country Club’s Colin McAskin.

   Five more players rounded out the top 10 as they finished in a tie for 10^th place at 1-over 72, led by The Springhaven Club’s Luca Kleinschmidt, who wrapped up his scholastic career at Strath Haven last fall.

   Kleinschmidt, the runnerup to Jackson Lane in the GAP Junior Boys at Chester Valley, will join the program at PSAC power Millersville later this summer.

   Kennett Square Golf & Country Club’s Grant Burkhart was also in the group at 1-over. Burkhart wrapped up his scholastic career at Salesianum in the spring with a runnerup finish in the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association Championship at Baywood Greens that helped the Sallies roll to the team crown.

   Rounding out the group at 1-over were Sunnybrook’s Liam Littleton, a senior on the La Salle golf team, Whitford Country Club’s Calvin Pace, a senior on the Downingtown East golf team, and Lebanon Country Club’s Benjamin Allwein, who finished in a tie for seventh place in the PIAA Class AA Championship as a freshman at Annville-Cleona last fall.

 

 

 

 

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.