Aurora Kan, the three-time Daily Times Player of the Year at Chichester, is headed for the NCAA Tournament in her freshman season at Purdue.
Kan, the 2010 PIAA and Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur champion, saved her best round of the year for the final round of the NCAA Central Regional at Ohio State’s 6,264-yard, par-72 Scarlet Course.
Kan matched par 72 as Purdue fired a final-round 294 that landed the Boilermakers in third place in the team standings with a 902 total. It is the 13th straight season Purdue has qualified for the NCAA Tournament. The Boilermakers won the team title two years ago were the runnerup a year ago.
Kan struggled in her first two trips around the Scarlet Course layout, carding an 82 and an 81 before breaking through with the final-round 72. Her 235 total left her in a tie for 57th.
Purdue was led by its dynamic duo, Big Ten Player of the Year Laura Gonzalez-Escallon, who finished in a tie for 10th at 222 (78-73-71), and Paula Reto, who was another shot back at 223 (71-77-75).
Redshirt junior Kishi Sinha finsihed in a tie for 37th at 230 (74-79-77) and freshman Vicky Scherer finished in a tie for 45th at 232 (78-78-76).
Top-seeded Southern California took the team title with an 874 total, the Trojans posting rounds of 298, 290 and 286. Vanderbilt was second at 899 (308-292-299), three shots ahead of Purdue.
Southern Cal’s Lisa McCloskey shared medalist honors with Florida State’s Maria Salinas at 3-under 213.
The host Buckeyes, who also earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament with a sixth-place finish, were led by junior Rachel Rohanna, who won the 2007 PIAA championship as a junior at Waynesburg. Rohanna finished seventh.
Vanderbilt will be the host for the NCAA Tournament beginning May 22 at the Legends Golf Course in Franklin, Tenn.
Kan will probably run into one of the players she prevailed over in the playoff at the 2010 PIAA Tournament, Bangor’s Stani Schiavone, at next week’s NCAA tourney.
Like Kan, Schiavone, a freshman at Baylor, used the occasion of the final round of the NCAA West Regional in Erie, Colo. to post her career-best round, a 3-under 69 that helped the Bears finish in a tie for fifth and earn a trip to Tennessee.
Schiavone, who went 79, 75 in the first two rounds, finished in a tie for 35th. Fellow freshman Hayley Davis, a native of Wimborne, England, finished third at 4-under 212 (69-74-69).
U.S. Open qualifying
Radnor golfers raising money for First Tee
Just a reminder that three members of the Radnor girls team that won District One and East Regional team titles last fall and Radnor coach Andy Achenbach will play a 100-hole marathon Monday, May 21 at Overbrook Golf Club with proceeds benefiting First Tee of Greater Philadelphia.
Radnor juniors Jamie Susanin, a state qualifier as an individual last fall, and Allie Ziegler, and senior Caitlin Sullivan will tee it up with Achenbach in the marathon day of golf.
Susanin and Ziegler will captain the Radnor girls team next fall Sullivan was the captain of last fall’s team that finished second in the team chase at the PIAA Tournament.
You can support the fundraising effort by visiting http://www.thefirstteephiladelphia.org/ and typing in an amount in the Donate box. Then click the donate button and proceed through the Google checkout.
Toward that end, there were two local U.S. Open qualifiers in the area in the last week and while no Delco players advanced to the 36-hole sectional qualifying test, some of them had strong showings.
Jarred Texter, a top scholastic player in Pennsylvania in the early 2000s, claimed medalist honors at the local qualifier at Trump National Golf Club with a 2-under 69.
The 26-year-old Texeter splits time at Crossgates Golf Club and Conestoga Country Club near his Millersville home along with trips to the Carolinas to play in mini-tour events.
Also advancing were David Quinn, general manager at Links Golf Club, Christopher Gray, an assistant pro at Old York Road Country Club at Chestefield, Max Marsico, an amateur from Las Vegas, David Sanders, who competes in mini-tours in Florida and Michael Tobiason Jr., an assistant pro at Applecross Country Club in Chester County. Tobiason earned a spot in the field at last year’s Open at Congressional Country Club.
Council Rock North junior Zach Herr, who has won the last two District One titles, was a shot out of a playoff with a 2-over 73.
Michael Kania, the two-time Haverford School All-Delco who is coming off a fine junior season at Villanova, carded a 75. He was joined at that figure by fellow Haverford School All-Delco Nelson Hargrove and Villanova teammate Brian Colbert.
Conrad Von Borsig, the 2004-05 Daily Times Player of the Year at Strath Haven, was at 76. The Golf Association of Philadelphia results listed Von Borsig as an amateur, which might mean the two-time PIAA medalist and former University of Virginia standout, has been reinstated after a brief pro career.
Another two-time Haverford School All-Delco, Cory Siegfried, was also at 76. Braden Shattuck, coming off a senior season at Sun Valley that featured a Ches-Mont League individual title, was at 77. Radnor’s Bina brothers, junior Carey and senior Kavian, both PIAA qualifiers last fall, were at 78 and 79, respectively.
The second local qualifier was held at Back Creek Golf Club in Middletown, Del., Monday and Steven Cuzzort claimed medalist honors with a 4-under 67.
While listed as being from Grosse Ile, Mich., the 24-year-old pro has just been added to the staff at … Back Creek.
The only other qualifying berth up for grabs went to Greg Matthias, a senior at Delaware who won the Colonial Athletic Association individual title. Matthias, who plays out of Hartefeld National, edged Eric Onesi, a pro from Bear, Del., in a playoff for the final ticket to the sectional qualifier.
Just missing out on that playoff was Episcopal Academy junior Sean Fahey, who carded a 1-over 72. Fahey did beat out Billy Stewart, a Philadelphia Amateur champion when he was a member at Llanerch Country Club, for the second alternate slot, although U.S. Open sectional qualifying berths rarely go unused. Stewart also had a 72.
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