Walker second at Runner Junior, headed for USGA Team Championship

   Radnor senior Brynn Walker, the reigning Daily Times Player of the Year, put together three solid rounds at Saucon Valley Country Club’s Weyhill Course to finish second in a strong girls field in the PDQ/Philadelphia Runner Junior, an American Junior Golf Association event that concluded Wednesday.

   Walker had rounds of 73, 75 and 74 for a 54-hole total of 6-over 222. She never really threatened the winner, Japan’s Karen Miyomoto, who blitzed the tough Weyhill layout by bookending a 1-under 71 with a pair of 3-under 69s, her three subpar rounds giving her a 7-under 209 total.

   Walker, who is headed to North Carolina, did earn low-Pennsylvania and low-District One honors over Madelein Herr, Walker’s partner in a memorable run to the semifinals of the inaugural U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship in Oregon in May. Herr, a Council Rock North senior and Penn St. commit, had rounds of 76, 77 and 73 to finish third at 10-over 226.

   Walker’s Radnor teammate, junior Gabby Kim, finished eighth with rounds of 75, 81 and 83 for a 239 total. Agnes Irwin  sophomore Kaitlyn Lees finished 16^th with rounds of 83, 88 and 80 for a 251 total and Notre Dame sophomore Olivia Traynor,  the reigning Inter-Ac League champion, finished 19^th with rounds of 84, 89 and 85 for a 258 total.

   Walker’s return to the Radnor lineup might be delayed again next week as, for the second time in three years, she’ll represent Pennsylvania in the USGA’s Women’s State Team Championship, which gets under way Thursday at Dalhousie Golf Club in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

   And Walker won’t be the only PIAA champion or Daily Times Player of the Year on the team as she will be joined by Aurora Kan, the 2010 PIAA champion and a three-time Daily Times Player of the Year at Chichester who is coming off an outstanding career at Purdue. The third member of the team is Ellen Ceresko, a two-time Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur champion who is coming off an outstanding career at Penn St.

   The trio will be captained by Amy Kennedy, who has been a dominant amateur player in York County.

   Among the boys at the Runner Junior at Saucon Valley, Aronimink Golf Club’s Matthew Davis, a sophomore at Malvern Prep, finished in a tie for 15^th with rounds of 76, 76 and 74 for a 224 total.

   The title went to Ben Smith of Novi, Mich. who had rounds of 71, 70 and 73 for a 2-under 214 total.

   Haverford School All-Delco Max Siegfried, also a member at Aronimink, had rounds of 75, 80 and 76 to finish in a tie for 30^th  at 231. He was joined at that figure by Merion Golf Club’s Peter Bradbeer, a senior at Friends’ Central who had rounds of 75, 81 and 75.