After 884 golf shots, you wouldn’t expect that two teams
would end up in a tie, but that’s exactly what happened over the weekend as
2010 PIAA champion Aurora Kan out of Chichester and her Purdue Boilermakers
shared the Big Ten team title with Northwestern.
There was no
denying Purdue’s Paula Reto, the senior from South Africa, the individual title
as she tamed the 6,121-yard, par-72 Donald Ross Golf Course at French Lick,
Ind. with rounds of 71, 71 and 70 for a 4-under 212 total that was seven shots
clear of the field.
Reto helped the
ninth-ranked Boilermakers put up team scores of 293, 294 and 297 as they made
up a five-shot deficit on the Wildcats in the final round.
In the tense final
three holes with the title on the line, Reto had two pars and a birdie and Kan,
redshirt senior Kishi Sinha and freshman Margaux Vanmol parred out to enable
the Boilermakers to secure their piece of the title.
Sinha, a native of
New Delhi, India, finished in a tie for seventh with rounds of 73, 73 and 77
for a 223 total. Kan, a sophomore and three-time Daily Times Player of the Year at Chichester, continued her strong
play this spring as she was a shot back of Sinha in a tie for ninth with rounds
of 74, 76 and 74. Vanmol, a freshman from Belgium, had rounds of 76, 74 and 76
for a 226 total that left her in a tie for 16th.
It was a bit of a
disappointing weekend for Laura Gonzalez-Escallon, the senior from Belgium who
was the defending individual champion. She had rounds of 75, 77 and 81 for a
233 total that left her in a tie for 35th. Freshman Brooke Beegle,
out of Fishers, Ind., had rounds of 84, 76 and 83 for a 243 total that left her
in a tie for 59th.
Don’t be surprised
to see Gonzalez-Escallon bounce back in a big way as the Boilermakers head west
after learning Monday night they will be the fourth seed at the NCAA West
Regional May 9-11 at the Stanford Golf Course at Stanford University.
Jackie Calamaro,
the 2009 PIAA champion at Radnor, had a decent wrapup of her 2012-13 campaign
as a redshirt sophomore at Illinois at the Big Ten Tournament.
Calamaro had steady
rounds of 79, 83 and 80 for a 243 total
that left her in a tie for 59th.
The Illini were led
by junior Ember Schuldt (78-76-75—232, tied 32nd), redshirt
sophomore Samanatha Postillion (77-80-79—237, tied 45th) and sophomore
Michelle Mayer (77-81-83—237, tied 45th) as they ended up in 12th
place with rounds of 311, 318 and 317 for a 946 total.
Shattuck ends up tied for 14th at CAA tourney
Braden Shattuck,
the 2011-12 Daily Times Player of the
Year at Sun Valley, wrapped up a strong freshman season at Delaware with a tie
for 14th at the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament at the
7,069-yard, par-72 Reserve Club course at St. James Plantation in Southport,
N.C.
Shattuck faltered
in the final round with an 82 after opening the tournament with rounds of 74
and 75. Shattuck saw his streak of four straight top-10 finishes snapped.
The Blue Hens were
by senior captain Ben Conroy, who saved his best for last, a final-round of
even-par 72 enabling him to finish in a tie for 10th at 228.
Conroy also helped
Delaware post a final-round 305, which, combined with its first two rounds of
309 and 311 enabled it to finish fifth in the team standings at 925.
Led by individual champion
Payne McLeod (73-67-75—215), UNC-Wilmington claimed the team title with rounds
of 305, 283 and 300 for an 888 total.
Terzian finishes tied for 21st at CAA tourney
Speaking of
Delaware, the CAA women’s tourney was held a week earlier at the Reserve Course
at St. James Plantation and Episcopal Academy product Amanda Terzian, a
sophomore with the Blue Hens, finished in a tie for 21st with rounds
of 82, 85 and 79 for a 246 total.
Delaware was led by
freshman Nathalie Filler (81-85-79) and sophomore Baralee Theinthong
(77-80-88), both of whom finished in a tie for 17th.
Another shot back
among the players tied for 21st at 246 with Terzian was Delaware
freshman Vimonthip Benjasupawan (77-82-87).
Delaware had rounds
of 316, 331 and 328 to finish fifth at 975.
Led by individual champion
Shabril Brewer (76-68-81—225), James Madison captured the team title with
rounds of 321, 298 and 323 for a 942 total.
Cox, Kim are winners on Junior Tour
The Philadelphia
PGA Junior Tour was in Berks County Saturday at Galen Hall Golf Club and Dalton
Cox made quite an impression among the nine-holers by finishing first with a
47.
Gabriella Kim,
headed for the Radnor varsity next fall, topped the 13-to-15 age group with an
88. Kaitlyn Lees of Bryn Mawr was second with a 92 and Caitlin Bullock of Wayne
finished sixth with a 122.
In the boys 13-15
division, John Updike of Wayne finished second with an 87. Jacob Liberman of
Radnor was ninth with a 94.
Robert Olseski III
of Wayne finished third in the 16-18 division with an 89.
A little later in the week, we’ll be back at
it with a wrapup of the Villanova men at the Big East Tournament and a few
thoughts from the U.S. Open Media Day Monday at Merion. My playing partner was
none other than Chris Berman of ESPN fame and while I played horribly, the
company was good and Boomer didn’t play badly at all.
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