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Elizabeth Forward grad Mya Morgan reaches match play, falls in Round of 64 at U.S. Girls Junior

Mya Morgan advanced to match play at the U.S. Girls’ Junior Golf Championship but her stay in the 64-player bracket was short. Morgan, a two-time WPIAL and PIAA champion from Elizabeth Forward, fell four down after seven holes to Keya Naik of Ashburn, Va. and her slight back-nine rally was...
Riverview golfers working all summer to prepare for what they hope is successful fall

As temperatures rose past the 80-degree mark Monday morning, Riverview rising seniors Ian Stempfer and Rex Roberts hit the golf course at Pheasant Ridge Golf Club in Gibsonia under sunny skies for another round in what is a common summer routine for two of last year’s PIAA Class 2A qualifiers...
West Allegheny’s Ward, 13-year-old Kline win C.R. Miller Match Play titles

Nico Ward has been busy this summer. The rising junior at West Allegheny clinched a spot in the 78th USGA Junior Boys Amateur, and he also played in the USGA Final Qualifier for the U.S. Open. There must be something about Westmoreland County he likes. He qualified for the Amateur...
River Valley grad wins Westmoreland Junior title in playoff at Latrobe CC

Jeremy Reed Jr. had not played well previously in the Westmoreland County Golf Association Junior Championship. But the recent River Valley graduate reversed that trend Wednesday at Latrobe County Club. Reed, who is the first cousin of Franklin Regional basketball coach Jesse Reed, outlasted Latrobe’s Jack Sacriponte in a sudden-death...
Greensburg Salem’s Luke Sikora, Peters Township grad Ellie Benson take top honors at Tri-State Junior PGA qualifier

Greensburg Salem’s Luke Sikora and Peters Township grad Ellie Benson took medalist honors at the Tri-State PGA Junior Championships qualifier Tuesday at South Hills Country Club. The top two finishers in the boys and girls field advance to the National Junior PGA Championship on July 28-31 in Frisco, Texas. Sikora...
Peters Township’s Camden Reyes wins rain-shortened WPGA Junior in playoff

As Peters Township senior-to-be Camden Reyes prepared to putt on his final hole Monday at the 106th WPGA Junior Championship, thunder rumbled from a nearby storm. Undeterred by the noise, Reyes drained a 25-foot putt for birdie to tie Kiski Area senior Max Mottura at 1-over-par 72. He then used...
Hunter Swidzinski, Michael Quallich stay alive at Sunnehanna Amateur

Grant Roscich, the first-round leader, will take a one-shot lead into Saturday’s final round of the Sunnehanna Amateur. Roscich is 9-under par 131 and leads Jake Birdwell, who is 8-under. Butler’s Hunter Swidzinski and Baldwin’s Michael Quallich also qualified for the final round. The tournament was reduced from 72 holes...
Greensburg Salem sophomore golfer has ace up his sleeve — 6 of them, in fact

If Greensburg Salem sophomore Luke Sikora was given a nickname, it might be “Ace.” That’s because Sikora has done something statistically improbable: making six holes-in-one in the past 13 months. According to American Hole ‘n One, an insurance provider dealing with aces, the range of odds is 1 in hundreds...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Latrobe’s Jack Sacriponte picks Youngstown State

Like a bogey-free scorecard, Youngstown State checked all the right boxes for Jack Sacriponte. The Latrobe senior committed to play NCAA Division I golf for the Penguins. “Good distance from home, very good golf program and schedule, has what I am looking for academically, and I was looking for somewhere...
Makenna Kamnikar wraps up memorable golf career at Quaker Valley

Makenna Kamnikar was a member of the Quaker Valley boys golf team all four years of high school. “This season is really important to me as it’s my senior season so I’m going into it with a positive mindset,” Kamnikar said prior to the start of QV’s fall golf schedule....
Local junior golfers selected for state developmental team

There is a new junior golf development program in Pennsylvania and some of the area’s top rising players will be a part of it. Twelve boys and 12 girls were selected to the inaugural Team Pennsylvania, the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association announced Tuesday. The program (ages 13-18) is geared toward...
Promising Sewickley Academy freshman makes 1st WPIAL golf headlines

Trey Susa is a 5-foot-9 golfer at Sewickley Academy who has an iron game to more than match his size. A bit of irony was experienced by Susa at the WPIAL boys individual golf championships this season, as the Sewickley freshman tied for third in Class 2A. “I was thrilled...
Fox Chapel’s Carson Kittsley joins elite company with 2nd state golf title

Fox Chapel junior Carson Kittsley felt more comfortable on the golf course this season. Results didn’t necessarily come easier, but Kittsley felt better equipped to put himself in the best position to win. Kittsley’s precision proved to be necessary during the second and final round of the PIAA Class 3A...
Plum golfers cap season at WPIAL tournament

Out of the hundreds of boys golfers who took to courses in high school matches this fall, only 36 were able to play for a WPIAL Class 3A championship at Butler Country Club. Plum senior Dany Caruso and Mustangs junior Gavin Fink were two of them. And while they didn’t...
Peters Township girls place 2nd in PIAA team golf championships

Gold medals were not in the cards for the WPIAL golf teams at the PIAA championship Wednesday. Only the Peters Township girls earn a medal: a silver in Class 3A. Conestoga finished first at 12-over-par, and Peters Township was next at 16-over. Senior Ellie Benson paced the Indians by shooting...
Fox Chapel’s Carson Kittsley, Elizabeth Forward’s Mya Morgan repeat as PIAA golf champs

Fox Chapel junior Carson Kittsley has a chance to do something that has not been done in 84 years, win a PIAA golf championship three times. Kittsley and Elizabeth Forward senior Mya Morgan successfully defended their Class 3A titles Tuesday at Penn State University. Kittsley won in dramatic fashion. After...

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