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16 in the women’s).
Meadowbrook was the venue for the
RWGA, and Anderson won the qualifying
medal, returning a score of 6-under-par 65.
She went on to defeat 11-year-old Caroline
Curtis in the final for her fourth RWGA
title, the first coming when she was 13.
Ball won his first RGA crown at Willow
Oaks Country Club. He qualified as the fourth
seed, defeated his older brother and VCU
teammate Matt Ball Jr. in the quarterfinals
and edged good friend and fellow collegiate
player Chris Kapsak, a sophomore at James
Madison University, in the final.
Ball was runner-up to Nick Austin in
the 2011 City Amateur final that went 22
holes and has been called one of the most
thrilling deciding encounters in the event’s
89-year history.
Anderson is the reigning Virginia High
School League Group AAA individual
champion and garnered Richmond TimesDispatch All-Metro player of the year
accolades last fall. She won the VHSL
Girls Open title as a freshman.
She picked up her most significant
victory in June when she won the
VSGA Virginias Women’s Stroke Play
Championship to take home her first
association individual title. Anderson
was co-medalist in the VSGA Women’s
Amateur before losing in the quarterfinals.
She also qualified for the U.S. Girls’
Junior Championship, where she advanced
through stroke-play qualifying to make
the 64-player match play before being
defeated in the first round.
Ball is the only player to own four wins
in junior events conducted by the VSGA,
having captured two VSGA Junior Stroke
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