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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Miller, Stasi will square off in U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur quarterfinals at Forest Highlands


   Katie Miller, a three-time Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur champion from Jeanette, will see a lot of familiar faces gathering for the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur quarterfinals Wednesday morning at Forest Highlands Golf Club’s Meadow Course in Flagstaff, Ariz.
   One of them will be her opponent, four-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Am champion Meghan Stasi, the South Jersey native who has won the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia Match Play Championship eight times. Another is 2015 U.S. Women’s Mid-Am champion Lauren Greenlief of Ashburn, Va. with whom Miller has partnered in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship.
   “I don’t know exactly who the entire final eight is, but it’s a cast that we’re all very familiar with,” the 34-year-old Miller told the USGA website after finishing off a 2 and 1 victory over Alexandra Schilling of Rochester, Minn. in a round-of-16 match Tuesday. “Lauren and I play in the U.S. Four-Ball together and I’ve played with Meghan and Ina (Kim-Schaad) a good bit, so we definitely cross paths a lot.”
   Miller, a three-time PIAA champion at Hempfield Area before starring collegiately at North Carolina, had to battle all day to earn her ticket to the quarterfinals.
   She won the 18th hole with a par to send her second-round match with Old Dominion women’s golf coach Mallory Hetzel to extra holes and then won it on the 19th hole with a birdie.
   In the afternoon, Miller won the 12th and 13th holes with birdies to take a 2-up lead on Schilling, who battled back by taking the 15th hole with a par. But Miller won the 16th hole with a par and held on for the victory.
   In the 41-year-old Stasi, Miller will be taking on one of the great mid-am players in the history of the category.
   Stasi rallied from 2-down after the ninth hole to defeat Gina Bamberger of Marietta, Calif. in 20 holes in a round-of-16 thriller. Stasi, an Eastern High product who works in her husband Danny’s Cajun-style restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., won the 10th and 12th holes with pars and the 15th hole with a birdie.
   Bamberger got even again with a birdie at the 17th hole before Stasi finally closed her out with a par on the 20th hole.
   Earlier Tuesday, Stasi claimed a surgical 3 and 2 decision over Heather Will of Lakeland, Fla., who had finished in a tie for second in qualifying for match play. Stasi went 2-up with birdies at the third and fourth holes and never trailed after that.
   The two wins Tuesday give Stasi a career match record of 52-9 in her 14th U.S. Women’s Mid-Am appearance.
   The 29-year-old Greenlief, a former Virginia standout, won the match of the day when she ousted two-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Am champion Julia Potter-Bobb, the qualifying medalist at Forest Highlands, with a 4 and 3 victory.
   Greenlief had six birdies in her first nine holes to overpower Potter-Bobb. Typical of the way things went for Potter-Bobb was the fifth hole where Potter-Bobb, who won the second of her two U.S. Women’s Mid-Am titles at The Kahkwa Club in Erie in 2016, stiffed her approach for a conceded birdie only to watch Greenlief chip in from 20 feet to get the half.
   Greenlief’s quarterfinal opponent will be Andrea Kosa of Canada, who claimed a 2 and 1 decision over Ket Preamchuen Vanderpool of Thailand in an international round-of-16 affair.
   Earlier Tuesday, Preamchuen Vanderpool ended the bid of Coatesville’s Kelli Pry with a 3 and 1 victory in a second-round match. Pry was 2-down when she cut her deficit in half by winning the 13th hole with a par, but Preamchuen Vanderpool won the 16th hole with a par and the 17th hole with a birdie to close out Pry.
   Michelle Butler of Columbia, Mo., a semifinalist a year in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Am at Norwood Hills Golf Club in St. Louis, rolled into the quarterfinals with an 8 and 6 victory over Katie Elliott-Johnson of Fitchburg, Wis.
   But Butler had to survive a tough test from Merion Golf Club’s Catherine Elliott-Powell in a second-round match Tuesday morning before Butler pulled out a 1-up win.
   Five different times, Elliott-Powell, who starred scholastically at the Academy of Notre Dame and collegiately at Penn, evened the match after falling 1-down, the last time when she won the 16th hole with a par.
   But Butler won the 17th hole with a par and the 18th hole was halved with pars. Pretty nice showing at Forest Highlands by Elliott-Powell, who reached match play for the first time in her third U.S. Women’s Mid-Am appearance.
   Butler’s quarterfinal opponent will be Ina Kim-Schaad of New York City, who pulled off the biggest upset of the day when she ousted defending champion Shannon Johnson of Easton, Mass., 5 and 4, in the round of 16.
   While Johnson won’t be around for the quarterfinals, her caddy from her 2016 and 2017 U.S. Women’s Mid-Am runs and fellow Easton resident Megan Buck will be. Buck edged Erin Houtsma of Denver in a 19-hole thriller to earn a spot in the quarterfinals.
   Buck’s opponent will be former Notre Dame standout Talia Campbell of New York City. Campbell claimed a 3 and 2 decision over Gretchen Johnson of Portland, Ore. in her round-of-16 match.
   In the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Colorado Golf Club in Parker, Colo., it’s starting to look like Stewart Hagestad, who rallied to claim the crown in 2016 in a memorable final at Stonewall, has his sights firmly set on adding a second title to his resume.
   The 28-year-old Hagestad of Newport Beach, Calif. rolled to a 5 and 4 victory over John Ehrgott of Peoria, Ill. in his round-of-16 match Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Hagestad dispatched Blake Parks of Odessa, Texas in another 5 and 4 win in the second round.
   Hagestad, who has risen to No. 6 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), has been on a whirlwind golf tour in the last month, representing the United States in the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru and then leading the Red, White & Blue to a victory over Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup Match at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England before arriving in suburban Denver.
   But Hagestad is well aware that nobody is going to hand him the title.
   “I know the whole way through, from here on out, you are getting everyone’s best,” Hagestad told the USGA website. “They’re throwing everything they have at you. There’s a lot of golf left and you’ve got to kind of take it one match at a time and a hole at a time and all the adages that go with it.
“Everyone that’s here is really good. So, you can’t really take anything for granted.”
   Hagestad’s quarterfinal opponent will be 32-year-old Nick Geyer of San Diego, who ousted Maxwell Scodro of Chicago with a 4 and 3 victory.
   A surprise quarterfinalist is Yaroslav Merkulov, a 27-year-old from Penfield, N.Y. who earned his ticket to the U.S. Mid-Am in a Golf Association of Philadelphia-administered qualifier at Indian Valley Country Club.
   Merkulov knocked off Jeremy Gearhart of Atascadero, Calif., 4 and 2, in the round of 16 Tuesday. His quarterfinal opponent will be 36-year-old Joseph Deraney of Tupelo, Miss., who edged Paul McNamara of Dallas, 1-up.
   The winner of the Hagestad-Geyer match will face the winner of a quarterfinal match between 25-year-old Australian Lukas Michel and 32-year-old Jacob Koppenberg of Bellingham, Wash. in Wednesday afternoon’s semifinals.
   Michel claimed a 4 and 3 victory over Dan Ellis, an assistant coach for the Michigan State golf team, while Koppenberg went 19 holes to pull out a win over Daniel DeBra of Lutz, Fla. in the round of 16.
   The winner of the Merkulov-Deraney match will get the winner of a match between Anders Schonbaum of Argentina and Jason Schultz of Allen, Texas in the semifinals.
   The 28-year-old Schonbaum, a college standout at Jacksonville State in Alabama, earned a 2 and 1 decision over Johnny DelPrete of Juno Beach, Fla. and the 46-year-old Schultz, a reinstated amateur who once played on the PGA Tour, cruised to a 5 and 4 victory over Andrew Rhodes of Westfield, Ind. in their round-of-16 matches.
   Earlier Tuesday, Schonbaum stunned defending champion Kevin O’Connell of Jacksonville, Fla. in 19 holes in a second-round match.




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