Delaware captures team title in Nashville Invitational with Roberts finishing second as an individual

 

   Kate Roberts, a District One Class AAA champion as a senior at Phoenixville in 2023 and a three-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier during her standout scholastic career, probably wasn’t real happy with her results during her sophomore season at Delaware, her first year with the Blue Hens.

   Roberts wasn’t even in the lineup when Delaware teed off this week in the Nashville Invitational, hosted by Lipscomb at the President’s Reserve Golf Course in Hermitage, Tenn., although she was competing as an individual.

   That probably meant Roberts came up short in a team qualifier ahead of the Blue Hens’ trip to Music City. And maybe that was the last straw for Roberts.

   Roberts earned a runnerup finish in the individual standings of the Nashville Invitational, which wrapped up Tuesday, with a 2-over 218 total over the 6,700-yard, par-72 President’s Reserve layout. Only a double bogey at her final hole of the day, the 16^th at President’s Reserve, prevented Roberts from claiming her first collegiate victory.

   Perhaps inspired by the outstanding individual effort of their teammate, the rest of the Blue Hens captured the team title, their 18-over 882 total leaving them five shots clear of host Lipscomb.

   It was the second team crown of the wraparound 2025-2026 season for director of golf programs Patty Post’s Delaware team as it also captured the title in its home event, the Lady Blue Hen Invitational in October at Rehoboth Beach Country Club in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

   Roberts matched par with a 72 in the opening round of a Monday double round and added a 1-over 73 in the afternoon that left her a shot behind her teammate, Hyunji Kim, a sophomore from England, and Seattle’s Tsara Ralamboarison, a senior from France, going into Tuesday’s final round.

   With the exception of the closing double bogey, Roberts’ final round was typical of the kid who was such a dominant high school and junior player.

   Starting off the 17^th tee, Roberts rattled off seven straight pars before making a bogey at the sixth hole. Birdies at the 11^th and 15^th holes got her to 1-under for the round before the untimely double bogey at the par-5 16^th left her with another 1-over 73 and a 2-over total.

   Host Lipscomb’s Ava Bankston, a junior from Franklin, Tenn., closed with a solid 2-under 70 to overtake Roberts and claim the individual crown with a 1-over 217 total. Bankston had opened with a 2-over 74 before adding a 73 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round.

   It is a really good time for Roberts to find her groove. Following a dual match with Navy Saturday at Du Pont Country Club, Delaware will have just one more full-field tournament left, the Terps Invitational in College Park, Md., before the Blue Hens tee it up in the Conference USA Championship for the first time beginning April 20 at Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco, Texas.

   A couple of weeks later, Kate will team up with little sister Kayley, the District One Class AAA champion as a senior at Phoenixville last fall, in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship, which tees off May 2 at the Daniel Island Club in Charleston, S.C.

   Kayley Roberts will be joining her sister with the Blue Hens at the end of this summer.

   Delaware took command in the Nashville Invitational right from the start as the Blue Hens opened with a 5-over 293 and added a 7-over 295 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round to take a six-shot lead over Mid-American representative Ball State into the final round.

   Delaware closed with a 10-over 298 for an 18-over total and a five-shot victory over Lipscomb, which plays out of the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN). Delaware was the highest-ranked team in the latest Scoreboard, powered by clippd, rankings, at least among the top six finishers in the Nashville Invitational, at No. 110, in the aftermath of the Nashville Invitational.

   Kim and junior Marissa Malosh, a two-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier at South Fayette, were nearly as good as Roberts while leading the Blue Hens to the team title by finishing in a tie for third place with Seattle’s Ralamboarison, the trio ending up at 3-over 219, a shot behind Roberts.

   Kim opened with a 2-under 70 and added a 1-over 73 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round to get a share of the individual lead going into the final round. Kim closed with a 4-over 76.

   Malosh, who has been solid all season for Delaware, opened with a 1-over 73 and added a 74 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round before matching par in the final round with a 72.

   Lipscomb struggled in the opening round with a 304 and added a 9-over 297 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round. Behind Bankston’s 70, the Bisons closed with the best team round of the tournament, a 2-over 290, to earn runnerup honors in the team chase with a 23-over 887 total.

   Lipscomb had another finisher in the top 10 as Savannah Howell, a senior from Calvert City, Ky., finished in a tie for ninth place with Ball State’s Sabrina Langerak, a senior from Grand Rapids, Mich., and Seattle’s Blayne Brown, a freshman from Riverside, Calif., each ending up with a 5-over 221 total.

   Howell bounced back from an opening round of 7-over 79 with a 2-under 70 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round before matching par in the final round with a 72.

   Ball State opened with a 5-over 293 and added an 8-over 296 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round before closing with a 9-over 297 to finish two shots behind Lipscomb in third place with a 25-over 889 total.

   The Cardinals were led by Sophie Korthuijs, a sophomore from the Netherlands who finished in a tie for sixth place in the individual standings with Northern Illinois’ Alexa Ouellet, a sophomore from Canada, and Longwood’s Madison Lehr, a sophomore from Mechanicsville, Va., each landing on 4-over 220.

   After opening with a 3-over 75, Korthuijs matched par in the afternoon of Monday’s double round with a 72 before closing with a 1-over 73.

   Korthuijs’ teammate, Langerak, finished a shot behind her in the trio tied for ninth place at 5-over. Langerak matched par in the opening round with a 72 and added a 1-over 73 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round before closing with a 4-over 76.

   Seattle, a Western Athletic Conference (WAC) entry, was another three shots behind Ball State in fourth place with a 28-over 892 total.

   The Redhawks, added a 9-over 297 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round to their opening-round 296 before closing with a 299.

   Ralamboerison led the way for Seattle as she added a 2-under 70 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round to her opening round of 1-over 73 to get a share of the individual lead going into the final round. She closed with a 4-over 76 to end up in a tie for third place with the Delaware duo of Kim and Malosh at 3-over.

   It was nine more shots back to Big South Conference representative Longwood as the Lancers finished in fifth place with a 37-over 301 total.

   After opening with a 306, Longwood added a 299 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round before closing with an 8-over 296.

   The Lancers were led by Lehr as she matched par in the afternoon of Monday’s double round with a 72 after opening with a 3-over 75 and closed with a 1-over 73 to end up in the trio tied for sixth place at 4-over.

   Northern Illinois, one of Ball State’s MAC rivals, finished in sixth place in the 16-team field with a 40-over 304 total as the Huskies bounced back from an opening-round 307 with a 10-over 298 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round before closing with a 299.

   Northern Illinois was led by Ouellet, who added a 1-over 73 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round to her opening-round 76 before closing with a 1-under 71 to join Longwood’s Lehr and Ball State’s Korthuijs in the tie for sixth place at 4-over.

   Backing up Kim and Malosh for Delaware was Anushka Sawant, a sophomore from South Brunswick, N.J. who finished among the group tied for 12^th place with a 6-over 222 total.

   Sawant, who has been solid this spring, matched par in the afternoon of Monday’s double round with a 72 after opening with a 2-over 74 and closed with a 76.

   Junior Mary Grace Dunigan, a three-time PIAA Class AAA qualifier during a standout scholastic career at Unionville, finished in the group tied for 22^nd place at 10-over 226 as she sandwiched a 6-over 78 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round with a pair of 2-over 74s.

   Rounding out the Delaware lineup was freshman Rhianna Gooneratne, the Pennsylvania champion in Class AAA as a junior at Plymouth-Whitemarsh in 2023, as she finished among the group tied for 45^th place with a 232 total.

   Gooneratne bounced back from an opening-round 80 with a counting 2-over 74 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round before closing with a 78.

   Delaware was coming off a fifth-place finish earlier this month in the Riverbend Intercollegiate with a 25-over 889 total at Riverbend Country Club in Sugar Land, Texas, the Blue Hens closing with the best team round in the final round with a solid 2-over 290.

   Sawant and Malosh both ended up in the top 20 at Riverbend with Sawant finishing in a tie for 12^th place with a 5-over 221 total and Malosh ending up in a tie for 18^th place at 7-over 223.

   Also in the lineup for Longwood in the Nashville Invitational was graduate student Caroline Tragresser, a scholastic standout at Franklin Regional who is finishing out her college career at Longwood after transferring from Ohio Dominican.

   Tragresser finished in a tie for 65^th place with a 248 total for the Lancers as she added a 79 in the afternoon of Monday’s double round to her opening-round 84 before closing with a 3-over 75.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loflin rolls to individual title, leads Georgia to team crown in Linger Longer Invitational

 

   It seems like there’s hardly a weekend of watching PGA Tour golf that the announcer isn’t pointing out that one of the contenders played his college golf at Georgia.

   The Bulldogs, a perennial Southeastern Conference power, reached the NCAA Championship at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa last spring, advancing out of the Tallahassee Regional as a four seed.

   Georgia didn’t make much noise at La Costa, never really getting into the mix for a chance to reach the match-play bracket. By Georgia’s standards, not a great season.

   The Bulldogs looked a little more like themselves over the weekend as they rolled to a 21-shot victory over SEC rival Alabama with a 48-under-par total at the Great Waters Course at Reynolds Lake Oconee in Eatonton, Ga. that gave them the team crown in the Linger Longer Invitational, which wrapped up Sunday.

   Georgia was led by individual champion Carter Loflin, a senior from Duluth, Ga. and No. 86 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) who closed with a sizzling 8-under 64 over the 7,436-yard, par-72 Great Waters layout to cruise to the second victory of his collegiate career with an 18-under 198 total.

   Georgia entered the Linger Longer at No. 35 in the Scoreboard, powered by clippd, rankings, but its performance at Reynolds Lake Oconee should give it a boost in the rankings.

   The Bulldogs took control of the team chase right from the outset with a spectacular opening round of 21-under 267. They added a 10-under 278 in Saturday’s second round before closing with a 17-under 271 for an 816 total.

   Loflin led the way as he carded back-to-back 5-under 67s in the first two rounds before that 8-under masterpiece in the final round that included six birdies and an eagle with nary a bogey on his scorecard. Loflin’s 18-under total was five shots clear of runnerup William Jennings, a sophomore at Alabama from Greenville, S.C. and No. 79 in the WAGR.

   Georgia had two other players finish in the top 10 as Grayson Wood, a junior from Fredericksburg, Va. and No. 84 in the WAGR, finished among a trio of players tied for sixth place at 7-under 209 and James Earle, a sophomore from Jupiter, Fla., ended up in a group of four players tied for ninth at 6-under 210.

   Wood was the low Bulldog in the opening round with a sizzling 7-under 65 and added a 68 in Saturday’s second round that actually left him a shot ahead of his teammate Loflin going into the final round.

   Wood struggled a little in the final round with a 4-over 76 that left him with a share of sixth place with Vanderbilt’s Wells Williams, a senior from West Point, Miss. and No. 17 in the WAGR, and Charlotte’s Justin Matthews, a senior from Canada, at 7-under.

   After struggling a little in the opening round with a 2-over 74, Earle contributed back-to-back 4-under 68s as Georgia maintained its big lead in the final two rounds.

   Earle shared ninth place with a pair of Alabama players, Jonathan Griz, a senior from Hilton Head, S.C. and No. 76 in the WAGR, and Connor Brown, a graduate student from Pinehurst, N.C., and Elon’s Dylan Lewis, a freshman from Wilmington, N.C., as they all ended up at 6-under.

   Behind Jennings, Alabama, which couldn’t catch up to Georgia, was still a solid runnerup with a 27-under 837 total.

   The Crimson Tide, No. 16 in the Scoreboard rankings, opened with a 10-under 278 and added a 3-under 285 in Saturday’s second round before closing with a 14-under 274.

   Jennings was just a shot out of the lead going into the final round as he added a sparkling 6-under 66 in Saturday’s second round to his opening-round 68. He closed with a 3-under 69 for a 13-under 203 total that left him five shots behind Loflin in second place.

   Griz and Brown gave Alabama two other top-10 finishers as they were in the foursome tied for ninth place at 6-under.

   Griz recorded back-to-back solid 1-under 71s in the first two rounds before finishing up with a 4-under 68. Brown opened with a 3-under 70 and struggled a little with a 2-over 74 in Saturday’s second round, but came on strong with a sparkling 6-under 66 in the final round.

   Sophomore Nick Gross, the Pennsylvania Class AAA champion in 2021 as a junior at Downingtown West, was in the lineup for the Crimson Tide and finished among the group tied for 45^th place with a 4-over 220 total. I’ll delve into the details of Gross’ weekend at Reynolds Lake Oconee a little later in this post.

   Alabama, as I chronicled last spring, failed to advance to the NCAA Championship at La Costa after getting a tough weather draw as a three seed in the Reno Regional.

   Vanderbilt, the highest-ranked team in the Scoreboard rankings at No. 11 and another perennial power in the SEC, finished seven shots behind Alabama in third place with a 20-under 844 total.

   The Commodores opened with a solid 10-under 278, struggled a little in Saturday’s second round with a 1-over 289 and closed with an 11-under 277.

   Vanderbilt was led by Jon Ed Steed, a freshman from Enterprise, Ala. who finished alone in fourth place in the individual standings with a 9-under 207 total. Steed added a 2-under 70 in Saturday’s second round to his opening-round 69 before closing with his best round of the weekend, a 4-under 68.

   Willliams was the steady veteran senior for Vanderbilt as he tallied back-to-back 1-under 71s in the first two rounds before closing with a 5-under 67 to get his share of sixth place at 7-under.

   Vanderbilt advanced to the NCAA Championship last spring with a runnerup finish as a three seed in the Amherst Regional. The Commodores went into the final round of stroke-play qualifying with a shot at a berth in the match-play bracket at La Costa, but couldn’t quite get it done.

   Reigning American Athletic Conference champion Charlotte, No. 18 in the Scoreboard rankings, South Florida, which lost to the 49ers in a playoff for the AAC crown last spring, and reigning Coastal Athletic Association champion Elon each finished four shots behind Vanderbilt in fourth place in the 18-team field with a 16-under 848 total.

   The 49ers registered back-to-back 3-under 285s in the first two rounds before closing with a solid 10-under 278.

   Charlotte was led by Matthews, who sandwiched a 1-under 71 in Saturday’s second round with a pair of 3-under 69s to join Georgia’s Wood and Vanderbilt’s Williams in the tie for sixth place at 7-under.

   Charlotte was unable to advance to the NCAA Championship last spring as a seven seed in the Bremerton Regional.

   USF, No. 50 in the Scoreboard rankings, closed with a sparkling 14-under 274 to get its share of fourth place in the team standings. The Bulls had opened with a 1-over 289 and added a 3-under 285 in Saturday’s second round.

   Wilhelm Ryding, a junior from Sweden and No. 98 in the WAGR, led the way for USF as he finished in fifth place in the individual standings with an 8-under 208 total. After opening with a 2-under 70, Ryding added a 71 in Saturday’s second round before finishing with a flourish, posting a 5-under 67 in the final round.

   The Bulls also got shipped to the Bremerton Regional last spring along with its AAC rival Charlotte, but USF gave the AAC a team in the NCAA Championship at La Costa as it finished in fourth place as a five seed.

   Pretty nice effort in the Linger Longer for Elon as the Phoenix, outperforming their No. 73 spot in the Scoreboard rankings, opened with a 9-under 279 and added a 2-under 286 in Saturday’s second round before closing with a 5-under 283.

   A pair of Elon players had top-10 finishes, led by Jack Wieler, a junior from Bluffton, S.C. who finished three shots behind Alabama’s Jennings in third place with a 10-under 206 total. Wieler opened with a sparkling 6-under 66 and added a 3-under 69 in Saturday’s second round before closing with a 71.

   Elon’s Lewis opened with a 5-under 67, but struggled a little in Saturday’s second round with a 2-over 74 before closing with a solid 69 that enabled him to climb into the quartet tied for ninth place at 6-under.

   Elon was also in the field in last spring’s Bremerton Regional, but failed to advance to the NCAA Championship as an 11 seed.

The last two players in the Georgia lineup, Matt Moloney, a sophomore from Daniel Island, S.C., and J.D. Culbreth, a freshman from Thomasville, Ga., landed inside the top 20 in the Linger Longer Invitational.

   Moloney helped Georgia get off to its blazing start with a sparkling 6-under 66 in the opening round, but struggled a little in Saturday’s second round with a 3-over 75 before closing with a 2-under 70 as he finished among a trio tied for 13^th place with a 5-under 211 total.

   Culbreth sandwiched a 3-over 75 in Saturday’s second round with a pair of 3-under 69s as he finished in the group tied for 19^th place with a 3-under 213 total.

   Will Guthrie, a freshman from Charlotte, N.C., competed as an individual for the Bulldogs and finished in the group tied for 45^th place with a 4-over 220 total. Guthrie added a 3-over 75 in Saturday’s second round to his opening-round 74 before finishing up with a solid 1-under 71.

   Alabama’s Gross, who reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Junior Amateur last summer at a sweltering Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas, Texas, was also in that group at 4-over.

   After making the starting lineup for the Crimson Tide in every tournament of his freshman season, Gross was out of the lineup for the last few tournaments of the fall portion of the wraparound 2025-2026.

   Gross was back in the Alabama lineup for The Hayt earlier this month at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. and finished in a tie for 36^th place with a 1-under 215 total.

   Gross opened with a 3-over 75 at the Great Waters Course at Reynolds Lake Oconee and added a 2-over 74 in Saturday’s second round before contributing a counting 1-under 71 to the Crimson Tide’s strong final round in the Linger Longer.

   Gross’ final round displayed some of the inconsistency that has plagued him at times this season. He had had six birdies, five of them in his first 11 holes. But a bogey at the second hole, a double bogey at seven and bogeys at 12 and 18 prevented him from going lower.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Komancheck's game springs into action as he claims a Philly Junior Tour victory at Shore Gate

 

   Colby Komancheck, the Malvern Prep junior who has been one of the top players in one of Pennsylvania’s most competitive scholastic circuits, the Inter-Ac League, throughout his career with the Friars, fired a sparkling 1-under-par 71 at Shore Gate Golf Club in Ocean View, N.J. on a springlike Sunday that gave him a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour victory in the 16-to-18 division.

   Komancheck, the son of the husband-wife team of PGA professionals, Jamie and Kelly Komancheck, who run the pro shop at the RiverCrest Golf Club & Preserve, played in both ends of a Junior Golf Scoreboard (JGS) Philly Junior Tour Shore Series weekend.

   Komancheck finished in a tie for fourth place among the older guys with a 4-over 76 in Saturday’s stop down the coast a little at the Shore Club in Cape May Court House, N.J.

   Pretty sure those scores are combined to give players who play in both events some JGS points, which can help earn them status on some of the more competitive junior circuits, most notably the American Junior Golf Association.

   Trebor Melendez, the talented 12-year-old from Vineland, N.J., had led all the guys with a sparkling 1-under 71 at the Shore Club. Melendez again led the 13-to-15 division with a 5-over 77, but it left him a shot behind Komancheck in the overall scoring for the weekend with a 148 total.

   Komancheck earned a trip to the Boys Junior PGA Championship at Purdue’s Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Ind. last summer by claiming medalist honors in the Philadelphia Boys Junior PGA Championship, a one-day 36-hole test at his home course at RiverCrest.

   In the fall, Komancheck was the medalist in the Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association (PAISAA) Championship at Radley Run Country Club, leading Malvern Prep to a share of the team title.

   A week before the PAISAA Championship, Komancheck finished in a tie for third place in the Bert Linton Memorial for the Inter-Ac individual championship at The 1912 Club. Komancheck has finished fifth, tied third and tied third again in his first three starts in the Bert Linton.

   Komancheck finished second in the Inter-Ac’s points race, compiled during the six invitationals that make up the Inter-Ac regular season, leading Malvern Prep to a runnerup finish in the Inter-Ac team chase behind Episcopal Academy. It was an incredibly tight race among the Friars, the Churchmen and three-time defending champion Haverford School.

   At Shore Gate, Komancheck made birdies at the first, third, ninth, 10^th and 13^th holes and had 10 pars on his scorecard, including a run of five straight pars from four through eight. Komancheck toured the outgoing nine at Shore Gate in a sizzling 3-under 33.

   Colby Seislove, who was a District One Class AAA qualifier as a senior at Spring-Ford last fall, made a birdie on the second hole and had 13 pars on his card, including a string of seven straight pars from 11 through 17, as he earned runnerup honors in the 16-to-18 division with a 3-over 75.

   Ryan Stankoski of Mullica Hill, N.J. made birdies at the second, ninth and 16^th holes and had seven pars on his card, including four straight pars from five through eight, as he finished a shot behind Seislove in third place with a 4-over 76.

   Stankoski just snuck into the top 10 a day earlier at the Shore Club with an 81 that left him in 10^th place.

   Charles Friel, a Gladwyne resident and a junior on the golf team at The Haverford School, headed a strong foursome that included Ben Nowland, a sophomore on the Avon Grove golf team, Jack Ferm, a District One Class AAA qualifier as a junior at Garnet Valley last fall, and Benjamin Perticari of West Deptford, N.J. as they finished in a tie for fourth place, each recording an 80.

   Friel had topped the field in the 16-to-18 division a day earlier at the Shore Club with a solid 1-over 73. Ferm shared second place at the Shore Club, two shots behind Friel with a 75.

   Rounding out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division was the trio of Gus Stolzfus, a teammate of Nowland’s at Avon Grove and a PIAA Class AAA qualifier as a junior last fall, Brayden Hughes of Hockessin, Del. and Liam McFadden, a Bryn Mawr resident who wrapped up his scholastic career at The Haverford School last fall, as they each signed for an 82 to finish in a tie for eighth place.

   Stoltzfus finished in a tie for fourth place in the Philly Junior Tour stop at the Shore Club Saturday with a 4-over 76.

   Melendez was typically solid in claiming top honors in the 13-to-15 division with his 77. He made birdies at the 10^th and 15^th holes and had 10 pars on his scorecard, including a string of six straight pars from three through eight.

   Daniel Padgett of Barnegat, N.J. had 12 pars on his card, including a run of seven pars in a row from the 10^th through the 16^th holes, as he earned runnerup honors with a 79. Padgett toured Shore Gate’s incoming nine in 1-over 37.

   Padgett finished in a tie for fourth place in the 13-to-15 division a day earlier at the Shore Club with another 79.

   Matthew Pilcher of Wilmington, Del. took fourth place with an 83, Chase Yakaitis, a freshman on the Salisbury golf team, was fifth with an 86, and Aiden Jose of Brick, N.J. and Nathan Lobo of Collegeville finished in a tie for sixth, each tallying an 87.

   Pushkar Vatsavayi of Marlton, N.J. took eighth place an 89, Lucas Shank of West Chester was ninth with a 90 and Mason Arnold of Ambler rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as he finished alone in 10^th with a 92.

   The best score among the girls emerged from the 13-to-15 division as Julie Costello of Ocean City, N.J. had two pars on her scorecard on her way a Philly Junior Tour victory with a 98.

   Costello was the runnerup in the division a day earlier with a 90 at the Shore Club and finished first overall in the weekend Shore Series.

   Hailey Cousins of Port Republic, N.J. also had two pars on her card as she earned runnerup honors with a 104.

   Brianna Stwalley, a sophomore on the Central Bucks West golf team, had two pars on her card as she finished in third place with a 103.

   Alexa Mcelwain of Schnecksville took fourth place with a 108. Cousins and Mcelwain teed it up in both ends of the Shore Series, Cousins finishing in fourth place with a 101 Saturday at the Shore Club and Mcelwain taking third with a 95.

   Brooklyn Ksiazek of Egg Harbor Township, N.J. rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she registered a 125.

   Annie Corrigan, a Huntingdon Valley resident and a sophomore on the Mount St. Joseph golf team that finished in a tie for third place in the PIAA Class AAA team competition last fall, was the lone entry in the 16-to-18 division as she had four pars on her scorecard, going back-to-back with pars at the 16^th and 17^th holes while posting a 100.

   Michael Antolino of Richboro and James Wilson of Wilmington, Del. shared the top spot among the boys 12-and-under nine-holers as each landed on 7-over 43.

   Antolino had six pars on his scorecard, opening his round by rattling five straight pars. Wilson made a birdie on the second hole and had two pars on his card.

   Dillon Tierney of Marlton, N.J. had three pars on his card as he took third place with a 45.

   Luke George of Mullica Hill, N.J. took fourth place with a 46 and Joey Charpentier of Schwenksville was fifth with a 47. A day earlier at the Shore Club, George finished in third place with a 45 and Charpentier was the runnerup with a 39.

   Jaxon Bucci of Marlton, N.J. took sixth place with a 50, Joseph Sherman of Gladwyne was seventh with a 53 and Mark Pilcher, another member of Team Pilcher out of Wilmington, Del., and Kayaan Patel of Mullica Hill, N.J. finished in a tie for eighth, each ending up with a 55.

   Kelly Selvesen of Cape May Court House, N.J. rounded out the field in the 12-and-under division as he finished in 10^th place with a 59.