11th Mid-Atlantic Challenge Junior Girls Team Matches

Independence Golf Club, Midlothian, VA

July 29, 2012

Final Results

 

 

CAROLINAS TEAM WINS THE 11th MID-ATLANTIC GIRLS’ CHALLENGE

 

MIDLOTHIAN –– The eight-player Carolinas team posted a five-point victory, 8½-3½, over their Virginia-Maryland counterparts as the 11th Mid-Atlantic Girls’ Challenge concluded on Sunday at Independence Golf Club.

 

A team of juniors mixing Virginia and Maryland players against their North and South Carolina counterparts competed in the event.

  

Owners of a two-point lead (3-1) after Saturday's opening day four-ball encounters, Carolinas outscored Virginia-Maryland by three points (5½-2½) in concluding singles’ play.

 

Carolinas, which avenged last year’s loss in the matches, now leads the all-time series, 8-2-1, and owns a perfect 6-0-0 record on Virginia soil.

 

The two teams each tallied a point and a half through the first three encounters. Emily Brooks (Chapel Hill, N.C.) recorded an opening 6-and-5 win in singles’ for Carolinas. Meanwhile, in match two, 16-year-old Bryana Nguyen (Columbia, Md.) won three of the final four holes to defeat Lucia Polo (Greensboro, N.C.), 3 and 1. Nguyen concluded the match by draining a 10-foot birdie putt at the par-5 17th hole. In the third match of the day, Karishma Thiagaraj (Haymarket, Va.) halved Evie Dole (Raleigh, N.C.). Thiagaraj held as much as a three holes up advantage in the match, but Dole charged back and shot three under par on the second nine to earn one-half point.

 

The 18-year-old Thiagaraj, making her last appearance in the matches before passing the age eligibility limit, contributed a point and a half for Virginia-Maryland over the weekend.

 

Carolinas claimed four of the final five matches to secure victory. For Carolinas, Sarah Bae (Cary, N.C.) notched a 3-and-2 win in the fourth encounter, while Kelsey Badmaev (Blythewood, S.C.) followed it up with a 4-and-2 triumph. Bae defeated Elizabeth Bose (Norfolk, Va.), while Badmaev ousted Lauren Eklund (Charlottesville, Va.).

 

In that stretch, 15-year-old Jordan McKelvin of Westminster, Md., accounted for Virginia-Maryland’s only point, registering a par-win at No. 17 to ultimately outlast Isabella Rusher (Salisbury, N.C.), 1 up. McKelvin paced Virginia-Maryland by scoring two points.

 

Carolinas finished off the matches as Victoria Allred (Pfafftown, N.C.) defeated Delaney Shah (North Potomac, Md.), 4 and 3, while Kelli Murphy (Elgin, S.C.) got past Lyndsey Hunnell (Troutville, Va.), 2 and 1.                  

 

For Carolinas, Bae, Murphy and Badmaev went undefeated, securing a team-leading two points in the matches.

 

MIDLOTHIAN –– Results from final day singles matches at the 11th Mid-Atlantic Girls’ Challenge at Independence Golf Club on Sunday, July 29.

 

Emily Brooks (Chapel Hill, N.C.) def. Mary Bryan Owen (Baltimore, Md.), 6 and 5; Bryana Nguyen (Columbia, Md.) def. Lucia Polo (Greensboro, N.C.), 3 and 1; Evie Dole (Raleigh, N.C.) halved Karishma Thiagaraj (Haymarket, Va.); Sarah Bae (Cary, N.C.) def. Elizabeth Bose (Norfolk, Va.), 3 and 2; Kelsey Badmaev (Blythewood, S.C.) def. Lauren Eklund (Charlottesville, Va.), 4 and 2; Jordan McKelvin (Westminster, Md.) def. Isabella Rusher (Salisbury, N.C.), 1 up; Victoria Allred (Pfafftown, N.C.) def. Delaney Shah (North Potomac, Md.), 4 and 3; Kelli Murphy (Elgin, S.C.) def. Lyndsey Hunnell (Troutville, Va.), 2 and 1            

 

Carolinas won final day singles’ matches, 5½-2½

 

Carolinas wins the 11th Mid-Atlantic Girls’ Challenge, 8½-3½

 

MIDLOTHIAN –– Results from first day four-ball matches at the 11th Mid-Atlantic Girls’ Challenge at Independence Golf Club on Saturday, July 28.

 

Jordan McKelvin (Westminster, Md.)-Karishma Thiagaraj (Haymarket, Va.) def. Emily Brooks (Chapel Hill, N.C.)-Victoria Allred (Pfafftown, N.C.), 2 and 1; Sarah Bae (Cary, N.C.)-Isabella Rusher (Salisbury, N.C.) def. Lyndsey Hunnell (Troutville, Va.)-Lauren Eklund (Charlottesville, Va.), 3 and 2; Evie Dole (Raleigh, N.C.)-Lucia Polo (Greensboro, N.C.) def. Elizabeth Bose (Norfolk, Va.)-Mary Bryan Owen (Baltimore, Md.), 6 and 5; Kelli Murphy (Elgin, S.C.)-Kelsey Badmaev (Blythewood, S.C.) def. Bryana Nguyen (Columbia, Md.)-Delaney Shah (North Potomac, Md.), 4 and 2

 

Carolinas won first day four-ball matches, 3-1

 

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