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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Fricke's birdie at the last gives Drexel the edge in City 6 Championship



   There’s a ton of college golf going on in the fall and I’ve tried to keep up with the Philadelphia men’s teams as much as possible, but I missed a few events. I probably kept up with Temple and Villanova the most after doing a couple of college spotlight features on those programs for Joe Burkhardt’s Tri-State Golfer earlier this year.
   They were all together in one place Saturday for the City 6 Championship, a golf tournament that makes so much sense it’s great that Temple coach Brian Quinn and his City 6 colleagues have made it a point to punctuate the fall season with this event.
   Coming from an old-school Big 5 basketball perspective, it just makes sense to have all these schools play in one event, just them, no outsiders. A one-day 18-hole shootout isn’t that tough to fit into the schedule. The teams are an interesting collection of recent PIAA and Catholic League standouts, Golf Association of Philadelphia regulars and guys from all over the country, not to mention La Salle freshman Zaffar Sikkander from Sri Lanka.
   You want to talk about the Palestra? There are about a dozen Palestras in the Philadelphia area when you start talking about classic golf courses.
   They didn’t even have to venture outside the city limits to tee it up Saturday at the Union League Golf Club at Torresdale, a 6,470-yard, par-70 Donald Ross classic. Last year they played at a William Flynn gem at Huntingdon Valley Country Club.
   Temple won the team title in a playoff with Villanova at Huntingdon Valley a year ago and the Owls were in the hunt for the team title right to the end again at Torresdale.
   But Drexel senior Aaron Fricke, a former Garden Spot standout, birdied the last hole to give him the  individual title with a 1-under-par 69, but also lift the Dragons to the team title by a shot over the Owls.
   It was the last of Fricke’s four birdies in a sizzling back-nine charge. Playing out of Lancaster Country Club, Fricke was showing up in GAP events all summer. He reached the second round of match play in the BMW Philadelphia Amateur at Philadelphia Cricket Club, another one of those Palestra-type golf courses, before falling, 1-up, to eventual finalist Grant Skylass of LedgeRock Golf Club.
   Fricke’s birdie at 18 gave Drexel an 8-over 288 with Temple just a shot back in second at 9-over 289. A solid effort by Penn gave the Quakers third place at 295. The Holy War had to be called a draw in this one as Villanova and Saint Joseph’s finished tied for fourth at 305 and La Salle was sixth at 310.
   It looks like teams were given the option of fielding a six-man starting lineup rather than the usual five, although, as usual, the top four scores counted. There are often a lot of “competing as individuals” in an event like this, but it looks like the six-starters option was a nice compromise to give teams a chance to get somebody a start without the field size getting out of control with a lot of extra starters.
   The Golfstat program seems to have run out of gas late in the day, so I don’t have everybody’s place, but I’ll run down everybody’s score.
   Temple went 2-3 with John Barone, a redshirt junior from Dunmore, matching par with a 70 to finish just a shot behind Fricke, and senior Mark Farley, a Calvary Christian standout getting his first action of the fall, taking third with a 1-over 71.
   Backing up Fricke for Drexel was Adam Mistretta, a sophomore from Livermore, Calif. who shared fourth place with Penn’s Carter Thompson, a senior from Tallahassee, Fla., at 2-over 72. Thompson, who began his college golf career at Florida State, lost out in a 4-for-1 playoff for the final ticket to the U.S. Amateur in a qualifier at Stonewall last summer.
   A third Drexel player, sophomore Alex Butler, a member of St. Joseph Prep’s 2014 PIAA Class AAA championship team, was in a group of three players tied for sixth at 3-over 73. He was joined at that figure by Villanova’s Matt Barnes, a freshman from Bethesda, Md., and Penn’s Josh Goldenberg, a junior from Scarsdale, N.Y.
   Also for Ben Feld’s Dragons, junior Mike Cook, a product of a perennial Central League power Conestoga, and sophomore Connor Schmidt, a member of Peters Township’s 2015 PIAA Class AAA runnerup team, each posted a 4-over 74 and Jeffery Cunningham, a freshman from West Palm Beach, Fla., carded a 79.
   Backing up Barone and Farley for Temple were junior Gary McCabe, a former La Salle High standout from Collegeville, and senior Bobby Firth, a Jenkintown product, both of whom carded a 4-over 74. Two of the Temple’s top regulars, Trey Wren, a junior from Suffolk, Va., and junior Sam Soeth, a former Marple Newtown standout, had respective rounds of 77 and 79.
   Quinn has taken his top two freshmen, Academy of the New Church product Liam McGrath and Souderton’s Dawson Anders, who captured GAP’s Junior Boys’ crown last summer, on a couple of the Owls’ trips this fall, but he used the City 6 as an opportunity to give a couple of his seniors a shot and they performed pretty well.
   Backing up Thompson and Goldenberg for Penn were Matthew Cornell, a freshman from Incline Village, Nev., and Amay Poria, a senior from Morgan Hill, Calif., both of whom signed for a 5-over 75. Zareh Kaloustian, a junior from Sherman Oaks, Calif., had a 77 and Eric Ganshaw, a sophomore from Greenwich, Conn., had an 80.
   Saint Joseph’s was led by freshman Wills Montgomery, a Downingtown East product who has had a pretty nice start to his collegiate career this fall. Montgomery carded a 4-over 74. Junior Ross Pilliod, a Berks Catholic product and an occasional Stonewall looper, had a 76 and Michael O’Brien, a sophomore from West Chester, Ohio, had a 77. Pilliod and O’Brien have probably been the most consistent performers for the Hawks this fall.
   Nice to see sophomore Alec Kerr, a Cardinal O’Hara product, get a shot in the St. Joe’s lineup and responding with a 78. Sophomore Richard Riva, a Lancaster Catholic product, had an 80 and sophomore Reed Winkler, a former Salesianium standout, had an 83.
   Backing up Barnes for Villanova was its senior leader Andy Butler, a Manheim Township product who carded a 75. Connor Daly, a sophomore from Bronxville, N.Y. who had a solid freshman campaign, added a 78. Andrew MacMillan, a senior from Scottsdale, Ariz., and Will Byrne, a senior from McLean, Val., each had a 79 and Reb Banas, a freshman from Winnetka, Ill., had an 84.
   La Salle was led by freshman David Kim, a former Upper Dublin standout who posted a 4-over 74. Junior Nick Geiman, a York Catholic product, had a 77 and Ron Fischang, a freshman from McKinney, Texas added a 79.
   Sikkander, the freshman from Sri Lanka, had an 80 and Nick Gruber, a junior from Cincinnati, and senior Brandon Raihl, a Conrad Weiser product, each carded an 83.



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