Luke Fallon, a junior on the Wilson golf team, was a par machine with 16 pars on his scorecard at Reading Country Club, the classic layout along Route 422 in Exeter Township, on his way to a 2-over-par 72 that gave him a victory in the 16-to-18 division in a Philadelphia Section PGA Junior Tour stop Sept. 19th.
Fallon opened his round with seven straight pars and finished his round with eight consecutive pars.
It proved to be a good tuneup for Fallon as he came back five days later to finish in third place in the Berks County Interscholastic Athletic Association Championship at Golden Oaks Golf Club in Fleetwood.
Mason Matlack, a Boyertown resident and a junior on the Malvern Prep golf team, and Jaden Irvin, a senior on the Hershey High golf team, shared runnerup honors, each ending up a shot behind Fallon with a 3-over 73.
Matlack ripped off consecutive birdies at the fourth, fifth and sixth holes, added another birdie at 14 and had eight pars on his card.
Irvin made birdies at the 12th and 14th holes and had 11 pars on his card.
Shane Cornell, a senior on the Avon Grove golf team, took fourth place with a 75, Vaughn Smartt of Bryn Mawr and Lucas Keysock of Schwenksville shared fifth, each signing for a 79, Brady Morris, a senior on the Governor Mifflin golf team, was seventh with an 80 and Clifton Beam of West Chester was eighth with an 83.
Toby Lerner of Philadelphia and Pierce Lamichane of Lancaster shared ninth place, each tallying an 86, and Chase Schmidt of Waterford, N.J. and Jacob Allen of West Chester rounded out the field in the 16-to-18 division as they finished in a tie for 11th, each recording an 88.
Bret Wade III, a freshman on the Owen J. Roberts golf team, made a birdie at the 14th hole and had eight pars on his scorecard as he finished at the top of the leaderboard in the 13-to-15 division with a 7-over 77.
Toby Parker of Chester Springs and Jake Ronsvalle, a freshman on the Marple Newtown golf team, shared runnerup honors as each finished a shot behind Wade with a 78.
Parker had 10 pars on his card and Ronsvalle had 11 pars on his card, twice rattling off four straight pars from the second through the fifth holes and again from 11 through 14.
Five players finished in a tie for fourth place with 79s, including Connor Bates, a freshman on the Perkiomen Valley golf team, Sam Nelligan, a freshman on the Boyertown golf team, Noah Gates, a sophomore on the Haverford High golf team, Blake Coppolino of Glenmoore and Declan Mayo of Chadds Ford.
Jonathan Thomas of Landenberg took ninth place with an 80 and Jake Julian of Malvern rounded out the top 10 in the 13-to-15 division as he finished 10th with an 81.
Ryan Kaye of Lansdale had eight pars on his scorecard, opening his round with six straight pars, as he bested the field of boys 12-and-under nine-holers with a 1-over 35.
Grayson Wright of Philadelphia and Joey Charpentier of Schwenksville shared runnerup honors as each finished two shots behind Kaye with a 37.
Wright had six pars on his card, closing out his round with consecutive pars at the seventh, eighth and ninth holes. Charpentier made a birdie at the fifth hole and had four pars on his card.
Niko Muego of Bryn Mawr and Connor Michaels of Lancaster shared fourth place, each registering a 41, Sid Joshi of Coopersburg was sixth with a 42 and Bennett Cho of Chesterbrook was seventh with a 45.
Declan Brainard of Pipersville and Adam Feith of Merion Station shared eighth place, each posting a 46, and Alex Cheng of Wilmington, Del. rounded out the field in the boys 12-and-under division as he finished 10th with a 49.
Addison Sabatini of West Chester made pars at the sixth and eighth holes as she bested the field of girls 12-and-under nine-holers with an 8-over 42.
Lauryn Kirby of Chester Springs made a par at the ninth hole as she earned runnerup honors with a 48.
Kasey Bell of Wilmington, Del. rounded out a short field in the girls 12-and-under division as she made a par at the sixth hole on her way to a 50 that left her in third place.
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