Coatesville's Jakatt solid at Chapel Hill on his way to a Philly Junior Tour victory

 

   Braydon Jakatt, a senior on the Coatesville golf team, carded a solid 1-over-par 71 at the Chapel Hill Golf Course near Reading to claim a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour victory in the 16-to-18 division June 22^nd.

   Jakatt made birdies at the fourth and seventh holes, went back-to-back with birdies at 10 and 11 and had 10 pars on his scorecard, including five straight pars to finish out his round.

   John Thompson, a junior on the Phoenixville golf team, and Radek Ramaley, a senior on the Nazareth golf team, shared second place, each ending up three shots behind Jakatt with a 4-over 74.

   John Thompson jump-started his round with an eagle at the par-5 fourth hole, added birdies at 10 and 15 and had eight pars on his card. Ramaley made birdies at the fourth and 14^th holes and had 11 pars on his card, including a string of five straight pars from five through nine.

   Grady Rupe, a senior on the Perkiomen Valley golf team, took fourth place with a 79 and Max Berish, a senior on the Owen J. Roberts golf team, Morgan Thompson, a senior and another member of Team Thompson on the Phoenixville golf team, and Victor Frederico of Moorestown, N.J. finished in a tie for fifth, each posting an 80.

   Landon Wolfe of Middletown, Del. took eighth place with an 82, Matthew Quinn of Abington was ninth with an 85 and Denny Deering, a junior on the golf team at The Haverford School, and Jaden Irvin, a senior on the Hershey golf team, rounded out the top 10 in the 16-to-18 division, each ending up in a tie for 10^th with 88s.

   Ruben Yoon, a sophomore on the Archmere Academy golf team, got off to a hot start and went on to capture a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 13-to-15 division with a 5-over 75.

   Yoon made a birdie at the second hole and then an eagle at the par-5 fourth before making another birdie at five. He ended up with eight pars on his scorecard.

   Jesse Kanefsky, a Bryn Mawr resident and a sophomore at The Haverford School, made birdies at the fourth, 11^th, 13^th and 16^th holes and had five pars on his card, four of them coming consecutively from five through eight, as he finished two shots behind Yoon in second place with a 7-over 77.

   Peter Heilman of Mechanicsburg and Harry Nepereny of Devon shared third place, each signing for an 80.

   Heilman made a birdie on the fourth hole and had nine pars on his card. Nepereny had 10 pars on his card.

   Charlie Murray of Berwyn took fifth place with an 85 and James Dugan of Villanova and Dylan Henzel of Wallingford finished in a tie for sixth, each recording an 87.

   Will Sylvester of Wayne and Michael McCalla of Newtown Square shared eighth place, each registering an 88, and Toby Parker of Chester Springs and Chase Fogli, another Wayne guy, rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as they finished in a tie for 10^th, each posting a 90.

   Emily Stauffer, who wrapped up her scholastic career at Warwick last fall, was the lone entry in the girls 16-to-18 division and delivered the best score of the day among the girls with an 89.

   Stauffer made a birdie at the 13^th hole and had four pars on her scorecard.

   Alexa Mcelwain of Schnecksville made a birdie on the 10^th hole and had three pars on her scorecard as she earned a Philly Junior Tour victory in the 13-to-15 division with a 90.

   Naaya Patel of Moorestown, N.J. made pars on the first and 11^th holes as she earned runnerup honors with a 94.

   Lanie Whitehead of Swedesboro, N.J. rounded out the field in the 13-to-15 division as she made a birdie on the 10^th hole and a par at the first to finish in third place with a 106.

   Joey Charpentier of Schwenksville, who has been a fixture on the boys 12-and-under division leaderboards in 2026, made birdies at the fourth and ninth holes and had five pars on his scorecard, including three straight at six, seven and eight, as he bested the field of nine-holers with an even-par 36 on Chapel Hill’s outward nine.

   Blake Shurman of Villanova had six pars on his card as he earned runnerup honors with a 4-over 40.

Kash Gray of Eagleville made a birdie on the third hole and had six pars on his card, including a string of five pars in a row from five through eight, as he finished in third place with a 41.

   Niko Muego of Bryn Mawr took fourth place with a 42, Jaxon Price of York was fifth with a 43 and Grayson Wright of Philadelphia rounded out the field in the 12-and-under division as he finished sixth with a 44.