Look out for the Ryan brothers when the District One Class
AAA Championship tees off Monday at Turtle Creek Golf Club.
Older brother Caleb Ryan captured the top spot in the
16-to-18 division in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop at Heidelberg Country
Club in Bernville, Berks County with a 4-over-par 74.
Younger brother Joshua Ryan was just a shot higher with a
5-over 75 to take top honors in the 13-to-15 division.
The Ryans are home-schooled through Commonwealth Connections
Academy, but represent Norristown High during the scholastic season. Caleb, a
junior, advanced to the PIAA Class AAA Championship as a sophomore last fall.
Joshua is a freshman.
Caleb Ryan, coming off an impressive victory in the Helen
Sigel Wilson Invitational at Philadelphia Country Club last weekend, played
another solid round on a tough golf course. He had three birdies to offset one
bad hole at the fifth in recording his 4-over total over the 6,282-yard, par-70
Heidelberg layout that also gave him low-Ryan honors by a shot.
Nikita Romanov of Wilmington, Del., who, like Caleb Ryan,
has had a really solid year on the golf course, was the runnerup in the
16-to-18 division with a 79. Joshua Brauer of Royersford finished third with an
84 and Gavin Franzon of Chester, N.J. was fourth with an 85.
Dylan Gooneratne of Plymouth Meeting and Ryan Peachey of
State College finished tied for fifth, each carding an 89. Matthew Kunkle of
Carlisle took seventh with a 95.
Joshua Ryan also had three birdies in his round of 5-over 75
as he won his fourth straight Junior Tour start.
Two Class of 2023 performers who began the year competing
with the nine-holers, Win Thomas of Unionville and Benjamin Saggers of West
Chester, finished second and third with respective scores of 82 and 85. Joshua
Ryan defeated Saggers, 2 and 1, to capture the Golf Association of
Philadelphia’s Junior-Junior Championship at Phoenixville Country Club this
summer.
Giles Elliott of St. Davids finished fourth with an 86 and
Luke Watson of Royersford, John Olsen of Boalsburg and Connor Ghergel of
Orwigsburg shared fifth place, each posting an 87.
Luke Kelly of Wayne finished eighth with an 88, Clay
Breidenstine of Hummelstown was ninth with a 91 and the trio of Evan Jozwiak of
Sinking Spring, Jackson Debusschere of Wallingford and Henry Stone of Kennett
Square rounded out the top 10, each coming in at 93.
Jessica Shao of Pottstown had a pair of birdies to earn her
first Junior Tour victory with an 84 that was four shots better than the 88
posted by Grace Hickey of Downingtown in the girls 16-to-18 division.
Kaitlyn Ferrer was the only girl to tee it up in the
13-to-15 division, so her 145 was good enough for the victory in just her
second shot at 18 holes in a Junior Tour event.
Nicholas Gross of Downingtown ran his Junior Tour win streak
to six in a row with a sparkling even-par 34 that topped the field of
nine-holers. He birdied the par-5 ninth hole.
Kayla Maletto of Sinking Spring was the runnerup with a 40
and Aidan Scott of Harleysville was third with a 50. Joshua Baker of West Chester
and Stefania Fedun of Glenmoore shared fourth place, each carding a 52.
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