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CourseI which begins next Tuesday. Carter Field and Dave PontariI both from 3OyPRuWK :KLWHPDUVK, finished tied for NMth overall and tied for second in the American Conference after HDFK VKRW D 79. ,n DOO, fivH CRORnLDOV TuDOLfiHG IRU GLVtricts.
“It’s a big thing for me and for the whole teamI” Field said of the team’s success. “It’s pretty cool for our whole team to get to experience this.”
tissahickon’s Jesse Hunsicker and rpper Dublin freshman jichael Reed-Price each had an UM for a tie for NMth overall. A trio of local players tied for NSth at U2W Carber from rpper DublinI Alex Acciani of North Penn and Pt’s Zak Glaser. Colonials’ teammate Evan Beaty was tied for 2Sth after an UP and Pt senior Dom Aprile posted an UR then qualified by surviving a six-way playoff for the final two district spotsI making par on the first playoff hole.
GULIfin IROORZHG uS KLV bogey on nine with another at the NMthI making birdies at N2 and N4 to get him back to even before a late bogey. At the NUthI he had a decent look at birdie to bring him back to level par.
“That’s pretty goodI yeahI” he said of the TP. “It started out pretty good.
“I was missing easy puttsI thoughI missed some birdie putts.”
6WLOO, GULIfin ZDV nRW MuVW looking to do well jonday. After getting through districts and regionals and finLVKLnJ WLHG IRU 19WK Ln WKH state a year agoI he cannot help but look down the road a few weeks.
“,W GHfinLWHOy IHHOV D ORW better that I actually accomplished my goal of getting Eto states last yearFI” he saidI “but I think it also puts a little more pressure on getting there again beFDuVH LW’V VR GLIfiFuOW JHWting throughI district especially.”
)LHOG KDG DOVR TuDOLfiHG IRU districts last year and knew what it took to get back again as a junior.
“I was thinking about the number needed and I felt I was below thatI but I wanted to put a good number out thereI” said FieldI who shot an UN at leagues last year. “I wanted to improve on last year. I got thinking too much about it and I lost focus.”
For AprileI this was his first trip to the league championshipI and advancing to the next round was paramount in his thoughts. The senior started on the N2th holeI and double-bogeyed the par-P NNth to complete his roundI wondering if he had made it. His UR put him right on the cut lineI along with five othersI and only two spots available.
The group of six teed off WKH SDU-4 fiUVW, ZLWK ASULOH hitting his tee shot down the left sideI putting his approach on the right side of the green to about 2M feet. He sent the birdie putt fivH IHHW SDVW WKH KROH EuW drained the come-backer to lock in more golf for next week.
“I just knew off the tee I had to hit a good tee shotI” Aprile said. “I didn’t hit it badI just hit it a little left. I wanted to get it on the greenI two-putt and get my par. I thought par would do it.”
Pennsbury won the team wild card spot with a combined score of PNN among the low four scores. Pt came in second at P2PI but this means the Colonials still have work to do if the team is to also make districts. CurrentlyI rp- per Dublin is NP-M and has locked up at least a share of the American Conference title. Pt hosts the Cards Tuesday at Green salley. Should the Colonials defeat rpper Dublin by more than three strokes in that matchI and then beat tissahickon tednesdayI Pt would get the league’s automatic bid to districts in front of the Cards.