Lees completes weekend sweep at the shore

   Agnes Irwin freshman Kaitlyn Lees completed a weekend sweep of a Junior Golf Scoreboard series at the Jersey Shore with another solid round of golf at the Sea Oaks Golf Club in Little Egg Harbor that gave her a first-place finish in the 16-to-18 division.

   In my last blog post, I reported on Lees’ winning effort with a 77 in the Philadelphia PGA Junior Tour stop at Hidden Creek Golf Club Saturday. The weather wasn’t  nearly as benign Sunday at Sea Oaks, but it didn’t seem to bother Lees, the Inter-Ac League champion as a seventh-grader two springs ago. Lees posted a 6-over 78 over the 5,505-yard, par-71 Sea Oaks layout to again win her division and wrap up the top spot for the weekend.

   Lees had birdies at 10 and 14 in her round at Sea Oaks.

   Runnerup honors went to Radnor sophomore Gabby Kim, who carded an 85 at Sea Oaks. Kim’s younger sister June  had a 97 to finish sixth. As a Class of 2020 competitor, June Kim was the youngest player in the field.

   The Kim sisters were the only other players besides Lees to compete in both ends of the weekend series with Gabby and June finishing second and third, respectively, behind Lees.

   Lees, by the way, teed it up Monday for Agnes Irwin against perennial Inter-Ac League powerhouse Notre Dame at Overbrook Golf Club and was the medalist for the day with a 1-over 36. That match is covered in the high school roundup in Tuesday’s print edition of the Daily Times and on GameTime.

   Most of the rest of the Delco contingent that teed it up Saturday at Hidden Creek did not return to Sea Oaks. One exception was Andrew Curran of Media, who finished 13^th in the boys 13-to-15 division with a 100. He had a 92 at Hidden  Creek and struggled a little at Sea Oaks when that notorious ocean breeze kicked up.

   Caleb Ryan of Norristown won the 13-to-15 division at Sea Oaks with a sparkling 1-over 73. That also gave Ryan series honors for the weekend with a 157 total, five shots clear of J.T. Spina of Schwenksville.

   Tommy Lewis of Doylestown won the 16-to-18 division at Sea Oaks with a 76. William Mitchell of Moorestown,  N.J., runnnerup to Lewis at Sea Oaks with an 80, was the series winner by two shots over Lewis.

   Theresa Luu of Mullica Hill, N.J. won the girls 13-to-15 division at Sea Oaks with a 98. Casey Oppenheimer of Conshohocken was the only 13-to-15 girl to play both days at the shore and won the series title.

   Among the nine-holers, John Wang of Wilmington, Del. posted a 41 at Sea Oaks to finish first there. Combined with his 43 at Hidden Creek, it gave Wang the series win with an 84, one shot better than Joshua Ryan of Norristown.