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Around The Commonwealth
61st Women’ s Virginias- Carolinas Matches
The 24-member Virginias team ended a seven-year skid against their Carolinas counterparts with an 81-63 victory at Spring Creek Golf Club. Players participated in three days of four ball, modified alternate shot, and singles matches. The Virginias dominated team play, taking a 20½-15½ lead after four ball and winning the alternate shot matches by a count of 27-9. Mary Cabriele( CC of Fairfax) and Kay Tyler( Springfield G & CC) were co-captains. Seniors Natalie Easterly( CC of Virginia) and Bev Lane( Reston National GC) each went 8-0-1 in their matches, where points were awarded for wins on the front nine, back nine and overall match.
60th VSGA Senior Women’ s Amateur Championship
A two-time VSGA Senior Women’ s Stroke Play champion, Mary Cabriele
( CC of Fairfax) added a Senior Women’ s Amateur title to her resume by beating four-time SWA champion Mimi Hoffman 1 up in the title match at the Omni Homestead Resort’ s Old Course. After falling behind early, Cabriele won four straight holes from 4-7 to flip the match in her favor. She made a two-putt par on 18 to close the victory. Bev Lane( Reston National GC) was the medalist in strokeplay qualifying.
ALSO
Dave Pulk( Two Rivers CC) bested Tim Moore( The Virginian GC) in a playoff at Hidden Valley CC to win the 32nd VSGA Senior Stroke Play Championship. Pulk, who won the 2015 Senior Open of Virginia, made a par on the par-4 18th to win the playoff. … Led by two-point performances from Skyler Sload( VSGA JGC), Naomi Mitchell( Sewells Point GC) and Rebecca DiNunzio( VSGA JGC), Virginia topped
Maryland 7½-4½ at Winchester CC in the 19th Virginia-Maryland Junior Girls’ Matches. … The Carolinas’ squad defeated the Virginia-Maryland team 9-3 to win the Mid-Atlantic Girls’ Challenge at Scotch Hall Preserve in Merry, N. C. … Congratulations to all VSGA members who qualified for( or were exempt into) the summer USGA championships: Keith Decker, Matt Sughrue, Vinny Giles and Pat Tallent( U. S. Senior Amateur); Mark Lawrence Jr., Scott Shingler, Mike Muehr, Connor Creasy, Vishal Giri and Sughrue( U. S. Amateur); Lauren Greenlief and Elizabeth Bose( U. S. Women’ s Amateur); Mary Cabriele and Mimi Hoffman( U. S. Senior Women’ s Amateur); Cameron Moore and Otto Voettiner( U. S. Junior Amateur); and Rory Weinfurther( U. S. Junior Girls’). … The representatives for the final VSGA entry in the U. S. Women’ s State Team Championship in Santa Fe, N. M. in September will be Greenlief, Alexandra Austin and Karishma Thiagaraj.
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