The Junior Golf Tour had the second of back to back tournament at Tashua Knolls in Trumbull, in memory of Don Miklus with great volunteers and staff. The event brought the first hole in one of the season by Joseph Catalina of Wolcott. He teed off with an 8-iron on the par 3 third to ace the 151 yard hole.

A small field of 90 in the 13-18 division competed in the tournament where a low score of one under par of 71 by Jacob Henny of Norwalk, Conn. took first place in the boys division and Lauren Gregory of Trumbull, Conn. shot a 78 to win for the girls division.

For the boys 9-hole division Aaron Montgomery of Lakefield, again faced a tie, this time against Ben James with matching scores of 42. This time Aaron was able to win with matching cards and win the division. The girls 9-hole division was won by Gabrielle Martin with a score of 43.



Boys 13-18 Par 72 - 6119 yds

1 Jacob Henny 36-35--71 -1
2 David Szewczul 36-38--74 +2
T3 Ryan Karbowicz 38-37--75 +3
T3 Patrick Albanesi 38-37--75 +3
5 Nicholas Shemkovitz 38-38--76 +4
6 Andrew Several 34-43--77 +5
T7 Michael Balokoz 37-41--78 +6
T7 Connor Loree 36-42--78 +6
T7 Eric Dietrich 41-37--78 +6
T10 Brian LeBlanc 39-40--79 +7


Girls 13-18 Par 72 - 5454

1 Lauren Gregory 37-41--78 +6
2 Marissa Grillo 39-40--79 +7
3 Abbey Doski 40-41--81 +9
4 Amanda Lee 42-42--84 +12
5 Alyssa Lyon 41-46--87 +15
6 Katie Becker 47-44--91 +19
7 Jamie O'Meara 47-45--92 +20
8 Josie Spelling 46-48--94 +22
9 Samantha Pavano 50-47--97 +25
10 Erica Oberg 58-43--101 +29

The state Junior Amateur qualifier was held Tuesday Connecticut National. The following three players advance to the 64th U.S. Junior Amateur at Gold Mountain Golf Club in Brementon, Wash. on July 18-23:

Overall 1 2 Score

Joe Walp, Portland, ME -3 71 68 139
Anthony Vecchiarelli, Agawam, MA -2 65 75
Geoff Vartelas, Cromwell, CT -1 72 69 141

Vartelas will be a senior at Xavier High School in the fall

Here are the final scores of the championship flight for the 2011 SNEWGA Individual Championship held at Smith Richardson Golf Course, Monday and Tuesday.
Congratulations to repeat winner Linda Lyons of Timberlin Golf Club.

The top 10 scores in the championship flight are:

Place Name Day-1 Day-2 Total

1 Linda Lyons 76 77 153

2 Debbie Johnson 80 76 156

3 Lisa Fern-Boros 84 82 166

4 Carole Oat 85 84 169

5 Jo Rasmussen 86 84 170

6 Lisa Lavoie 88 83 171

7 Tania Stenberg 83 88 171

8 Nicole Coffey 87 85 172

9 Jenny Burrill 88 87 175

10 Debby Tendler 88 88 176

77th Connecticut Open at Aspetuck Valley Country Club

The following 18 players advance to the 77th Connecticut Open at Brooklawn Country Club on July 25-27:


Rank Player Name Overall Front Back Total

1 John Murphy, Brooklawn Even 34 37 71

2 Dan Powers, Aspetuck Valley (a) +1 37 35 72

T3 Rich Hague, Wallingford (a) +2 37 36 73

T3 Reed Howard, Greenwich +2 34 39 73

T5 Philip Boehme, Unaffiliated +3 36 38 74

T5 Frank Mollica, HS Richardson (a) +3 36 38 74

T5 John Deigan, Wykagyl +3 38 36 74

T5 Gerard Scheer Jr., Aspetuck Valley +3 36 38 74

T5 Michael Herlihy, Fox Hopyard (a) +3 38 36 74

T5 Pieter Hartong, Stanwich (a) +3 36 38 74

T11 Max Fortin, Wheeler Park (a) +4 39 36 75

T11 Alex DiClemente, Fairview Farm (a) +4 40 35 75

T11 Jack Roy Ayers, Clinton (a) +4 36 39 75

T11 Jason Thresher, Crestview (a) +4 39 36 75

T11 Dylan Murray, Patterson (a) +4 36 39 75

T11 David Jones, Silver Spring +4 41 34 75

T11 Tony Frabizzio, Silvermine +4 38 37 75

T11 Schuyler Stitzer, Round Hill (a) +4 37 38 75