It’s been five months since Conestoga’s Morgan Lofland
capped an outstanding freshman season by earning a trip to the PIAA Class AAA Championship
at the Heritage Hills Golf Resort in Springettsbury Township, York County.
Lofland was back at Heritage Hills Friday for a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop and he picked up right where
he left off last fall.
Lofland carded a 3-over-par 73 over a tricky Heritage Hills
layout to finish in a tie for first with Shaun Fedor of Lancaster atop the
16-to-18 division. Fedor earned the top spot via a scorecard playoff, but it's obvious that Lofland remembered some of the secrets of Heritage Hills that
he learned in posting rounds of 81 and 76 to finish in a tie for 23rd
in the most competitive scholastic tournament of the fall.
Heritage Hills plays to a par of 71 for the boys and a par
of 72 for the girls in the PIAA Championship, although it looks like the course
was geared back to a par of 70 for the guys and gals, likely a bit of
concession to late-winter conditions.
Lofland had three birdies in fashioning his 3-over round
while Fedor was the picture of patience, making 15 pars and three bogeys. Fedor
got the tiebreaker edge with his total over the last three holes.
Brandon Simmons of York was another two shots behind Fedor
and Lofland in third at 5-over 75. Troy Kelleher of Clarks Summit finished
fourth with a 78.
Conrad Benford of Parker Ford and William Brown, another
Clarks Summit entry, shared fifth place,
each posting an 81. Logan Snyder of Dover was another shot back in
seventh with an 82.
Edward Trumphour of Villanova finished eighth with an 85,
Nichols Sebastianelli, yet another player from Clarks Summit, was ninth with an
88 and Logan Hess of Willow Street rounded out the top 10 with an 89.
It took another match of cards to determine the winner in
the 13-to-15 division as John Olsen of Boalsburg got the edge on Luke Thompson
of Palmyra after each posted a 6-over 76. Olsen had a better back nine to get
the tiebreaker advantage on Thompson. Each had a birdie in his round.
Karl Frisk of Spring Grove finished alone in third with a
78. Jack Shmonov of Harrisburg took fourth with an 84, Maxwell Wager of State
College was fifth with an 87 and William Locovare of Warrington was sixth with
an 88.
Connor Gherghel of Orwigsburg finished seventh with a 91,
Clay Breidenstine of Hummelstown was
eighth with a 93, Steven Coelho of Malvern was ninth with a 99, Dante
Billoni of Lancaster was the 10th with a 102 and Grey Conta of
Hummelstown was 11th with a 104.
Mckylie Boreman of New Cumberland was the lone entrant in
the girls 16-to-18 division and carded a 97 to claim the victory.
The 13-to-15 division turned into a Rolling Green Golf Club
vs. Llanerch Country Club affair as Kathleen Mark of Media, a Rolling Green
member, earned the win by four shots over Riley Quartermain of Bryn Mawr and
Llanerch.
Mark, whose freshman season at Episcopal should be teeing
off as soon as all the snow is gone from the Philadelphia area courses, carded
an 84 while Quartermain, coming off a solid freshman season at Haverford,
posted an 88.
Mark and Quartermain joined forces to win the girls division
in one of the premier Golf Association of Philadelphia junior events, the
Francis X. Hussey Memorial, held every summer at Mark’s home course, Rolling Green.
Ava O’Sullivan of Exton finished third with a 92, Lillian
McNally of York was fourth with a 106 and Aleena Ghanta of Phoenixville was
fifth with a 135.
It took another scorecard playoff to determine the winner
among the nine-holers as Tyler Fortney of Fayetteville and Michael Maslanka of
Taylor each posted a 6-over 42. Fortney’s total over the final six holes gave
him the tiebreaker edge.
Mason Tucker of York and Isaak Bloom of Bellefonte shared
third place as each posted a 49. Jillian Burks of Paoli took fifth with a 56
and Reed Krosse of York was sixth with a 65.
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