Tim Rotermund from Madison Country Club won his first two matches convincingly to advance to the quarterfinals of the 74th Connecticut Junior Amateur golf tournament Tuesday at Watertown Golf Club.

Rotermund defeated B.K. Browne (Rolling Hills CC) 7 and 6 and Justin Clark (Rolling Hills CC) 5 and 4. Rotermund will face John Aitken (Connecticut National GC) in Wednesday’s quarterfinal.

Chandler Morris (CC of Waterbury) eliminated medalist Jason Liu (Wintonbury Hills GC) 1-up and will face Connor O’Brien (Oak Hills Park) in the quarterfinals. Michael Vanderlaan (eclub of New Haven) will face Eric Ganshaw (Tamarack CC) in another quarterfinal.

In a matchup of Register All-Area high school golf selections from this past spring season, Andrew Sciarretta from Fairfield Prep beat Abir Singh from The Hopkins School 5 and 4 to advance to play Max Theodorakis (Ridgewood CC), a finalist in this event last year, Wednesday.