Malvern Prep senior Dimitri Collias, a King of Prussia
resident, had the day’s best round, a solid 1-over-par 72, to finish atop the
leaderboard in the 16-to-18 division in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour
stop at the Kennett Square Golf & Country Club in Kennett Square Tuesday.
Collias got off to a fast start with three birdies in a
2-under 33 on the Kennett Square layout’s front nine and another birdie on the
back nine to finish two shots clear of Rocco Giannnangeli of Oxford.
Giannangeli’s steady round featured 13 pars and one birdie in a 3-over 74.
Joseph Madden, another Oxford entry, finished a shot behind
Giannangeli with a 4-over 75 that featured a run of 10 straight pars.
Trevor Talerico of West Chester took fourth place with a 77,
Nicholas Rafetto of Pottstown was fifth with a 79 and Radnor High junior Chase
Stephano was sixth with an 82.
Graham White of West Chester and Grey Conta of Hummelstown
shared seventh place, each carding an 83, and Conor Watson of Malvern and
Bradyn Cantwell of Garnet Valley rounded out the top 10 in the older division,
each registering an 84 to finish in a tie for ninth place.
Zachary Antao of Chadds Ford had four birdies and eight pars
on his scorecard as he posted a solid 4-over 75 to earn a victory in the 13-to-15
division.
Michael Dignazio of Wilmington, Del. had a pair of birdies
in a front nine of 2-over 37 as he claimed runnerup honors with a 7-over 78.
Jake Micewski of Broomall and Dylan Ramsey of Lebanon shared
third place, each posting an 80. Micewski was 2-over on a back nine that
included seven pars.
Griffin Gaughan of Avondale and Colin Drummond of Exton
finished in a tie for fifth place, each signing for an 83.
A couple of Kennett Square guys, Shane Powelson and Jax
Puskar, and Tyler Ott of Birdsboro shared seventh place, all three checking in
with an 84. Sean Surowiec of West Chester rounded out the top 10 as he finished
alone in 10th place with an 85.
The best scores turned in among the girls at Kennett Square
came from the younger group as Mary Grace Dunigan, who finished fifth in the
PIAA Class AAA Championship as a freshman at Unionville last fall, and Sawyer
Brockstedt, a rising star from Rehoboth, Del., each carded an 80 to share the
top spot in the 13-to-15 division.
Dunigan, the daughter of Golf Digest Top 50
instructor John Dunigan, had seven pars in a front-nine 39 and added a birdie
in a back-nine 41. Brockstedt’s splits were the same, 39-41, with a birdie on
each side.
Curstan Bunch of Wilmington, Del. finished third with a
solid 82 that featured a pair of birdies. Mia Pace of Exton took fourth place
with an 87 and Silvana Gonzalez, another Exton entry, rounded out the 13-to-15
field with a 91 that left her in fifth place.
Nimah Narinesingh-Smith posted a solid front nine of 37 on
her way to an 82 that gave her top honors in the 16-to-18 division.
Emma Schotsch, who lost her junior season at Springside
Chestnut Hill Academy to the coronavirus pandemic this spring, and Suzie Ahn of
Paoli shared second place, each registering a 92. Shotsch had two pars in a
front-nine 44 and Ahn finished strong with a 45 on Kennett Square’s incoming
nine that featured three pars.
Harriton senior Niosha Parvizi and Sarah Lawrie of
Eagleville finished in a tie for fourth place, each posting a 99. Skye Mada of
Cherry Hill, N.J. took sixth place with a 100 and Meredith Beyer of Avondale
was seventh with a 103.
Davis Conaway of East Bradford continued his domination of
the coed 12-and-under division as he had three pars and a birdie at the 18th
hole for a 7-over 43 that gave him a third straight win over a strong field of
nine-holers.
Carson Holmes of Thorndale has been chasing right behind
Conaway in those three straight wins and he made three straight pars to start
his round and parred the 18th hole to claim runnerup honors with a
44. Liam McFadden had six bogeys and a par as he finished in third place with a
46.
Ian Rotto of Kennett Square was a shot behind McFadden in
fourth place with a 47. Nate Swalley of Ardmore and Luke Hollerback of
Millsboro, Del. shared fifth place, each carding a 49.
Anthony Proud of Stroudsburg and Luke Fedlukov of
Downingtown finished in a tie for seventh place, each signing for a 52 and Luke
Mathews of Aston and Michael Liu of Garnet Valley rounded out the top 10,
sharing ninth place as each registered a 55.
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