44 NC Junior
Championship
Pine Island
CC Charlotte, NC
June 24, 2011
Final Results
Charlotte, NC—Stanhope Johnson,
Jr. of Greensboro completed a week of
stellar play winning the NC Junior Boys’ Championship at Pine Island CC in Charlotte, NC. Johnson, a rising high school senior,
defeated the scrappy Benjamin Griffin of Chapel Hill
in the morning’s semi-finals, 4&3. Griffin was one up after
the first nine holes, but Johnson five of the next six holes to close out the
match on the fifteenth hole. In the
other semi-finals match, Dylan Harris of Southern Pines defeated Victory
Wiggins of Gastonia, 2&1 in very close back and forth match. In the championship match, Johnson got off to
a great start winning holes three through six to take a four up lead and was
three up after the first nine holes.
Johnson took a four lead after a Harris bogeyed the short par 4 11th
hole. Johnson then closed out the match
with a birdie on the par 4 fourteenth and secured his first CGA championship.
In the
girls’ championship, 2010 NC Junior Girls’ Player of the Year Sarah Bae of
Cary captured
her second CGA championship defeating Kayla Sciupider of Etowah, 4&3. Bae, a rising high school junior, reached the
championship match defeating Alaina Yeatts of Durham, 3&2. In the afternoon championship match, Bae got
off to a quick start winning four of the first five hole and had a four up lead
through seven holes. Bae extended the
lead to four after eleven holes, but Sciupider chipped in for birdie on the par
4 twelfth hole to get back to three down.
On the fourteenth hole, Bae reached the par five is two and made the
putt for an eagle three and went back to four up and secured her victory when
both players pared the par five 15th.
This
annual junior championship is conducted by the Carolinas Golf Association.
Boys’ Championship
Semifinals
Stanhope
Johnson Jr, Greensboro, NC
def. Benjamin Griffin, Chapel Hill,
NC, 4&3
Dylan
Harris, Southern Pines, NC def. Victor Wiggins, Gastonia, NC,
2&1
Finals
Johnson Jr
def. Harris, 6&4
Girls’ Championship
Semifinals
Kayla
Sciupider, Etowah, NC
def. Victoria Allred, Pfafftown,
NC, 7&6
Sarah Bae, Cary, NC def. Alaina
Yeatts, Durham, NC, 3&2
Finals
Bae def.
Sciupider, 4&3
