Debusschere gets it going at Chesapeake Bay to claim a Junior Tour victory

   Strath Haven senior Tyler Debusschere made four birdies on the tough Chesapeake Bay Golf Club layout in Rising Sun, Md. Sunday on his way to a 2-over-par 73 that gave him the top spot in the 16-to-18 division in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop.

   Debusschere, who capped an outstanding scholastic career with the Panthers by earning a trip to the PIAA Class AAA Championship at Penn State’s White Course last fall, made birdies at the third, eighth, 14^th and 15^th holes and had nine pars on his scorecard on his way to the Junior Tour victory.

   Aidan Farkas, an Ardmore resident and a junior at St. Joseph’s Prep, was a shot behind Debusschere in second place with a 3-over 74 as he opened his round with back-to-back birdies at the first and second holes, added a third bird at 17 and had 10 pars on his card.

   Like Debusschere, Farkas earned a trip to the Class AAA state tournament last fall and finished in a tie for sixth place.

   Kennett junior Kasim Narinesingh-Smith made a birdie on the ninth hole and had 11 pars on his scorecard to finish in third place with a 5-over 76. He made seven of those pars in a row from the second to the eighth holes while matching par with a 35 on Chesapeake Bay’s outgoing nine.

   Like the two players who finished ahead of him on the 16-to-18 division leaderboard, Narinesingh-Smith earned a trip to Penn State for the PIAA Class AAA Championship last fall.

   Noah Wallace of Elkton, Md. took fourth place with a 78, Avon Grove junior Tyler Sikorski was fifth with a 79 and Grady Adams of Yardley was sixth with an 81.

   Luke Evans, a junior at Radnor, Joshua Freeman of Middletown, Del. and Aiden Leary of Ambler finished in a tie for seventh place, each landing on 82.

   Evans’ teammate on the Radnor High golf team, sophomore Will Walsh, rounded out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division as he finished in 10^th place with an 84.

   Keegan Redmond of Hummelstown made birdies on the fourth and 18^th holes and had 11 pars on his scorecard as he finished atop the leaderboard in the 13-to-15 division with a 4-over 75 to earn a Junior Tour victory.

   Quinten Joiner of Millington, Md. had 11 pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with an 80. Declan Conner of Swarthmore also had 11 pars on his card as he finished a shot behind Joiner in third place with an 81.

   Yaejoon Wee of Chesterbrook and Joseph Gangemi Jr. of Downingtown shared fourth place, each carding an 82, Avery O’Neill of Romansville was sixth with an 83 and Henry Nowak of Wilmington, Del. and P.J. Foley of Northfield, N.J. finished in a tie for seventh, each landing on 84.

   Trey Barkman of West Chester took ninth place with an 85 and Benjamin Robbins of Holland and Braydon Jakatt of Coatesville rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as they finished in a tie for 10^th, each registering a 90.

   The best score of the day among the girls came from the only entry in the 16-to-18 division as Kylie Yiengst of Wyoming, Del. made a birdie on the fourth hole and had five pars on her scorecard on her way to an 84.

   Giulia Weisser of Reading had six pars on her scorecard as she claimed top honors in the 13-to-15 division with an 88.

   Zuzu Campbell of Wilmington, Del. made a birdie on the 12^th hole and had four pars on her card as she earned runnerup honors with a 96. Maia Alinskas of Millsboro, Del. took third place as she had four pars on her card on her way to a 104.

   Rounding out the field in the 13-to-15 division was Emma Gangemi of Downingtown’s Team Gangemi as she finished in fourth place with a 115.

   Nathan Lobo of Collegeville had two pars on his scorecard as he bested the field of nine-holers with a 7-over 42.

   Ben Meixell of Wilmington, Del. made birdies on the second and sixth holes and had a par at eight as he took second place, a shot behind Lobo with a 43.

   Taimoor Naseem of Sinking Spring and Jaxson Refold of Bryn Mawr finished in a tie for third place, each landing on 46. Both players recorded back-to-back pars on the sixth and seventh holes to highlight their rounds.

   Jacob Russell of Wilmington, Del. took fifth place with a 47, Preston Minio of Lansdale was sixth with a 48, Jia Yan of Malvern was seventh with a 53 and Benjamin Gangemi, another member of Downingtown’s Team Gangemi, was eighth with a 54.

   Zheng Yan, another member of Malvern’s Team Yan, ended up in ninth place with a 57 and Bruno Peri of Glen Mills rounded out the field in the coed 12-and-under division as he finished in 10^th place with a 66.