CB East won the Pennridge Invitational and East sophomore Patrick Sheehan shot a low round. Check out all of Monday’s SOL golf results. Check back for photos of the Pennridge Invitational.
By Ben Reese
TELFORD -- Two sophomores and a senior scorched the course at Indian Valley Country Club during the Pennridge Invitational golf tournament which kicks off the Continental Conference golf schedule.
One of the sophomores, Central Bucks East's Patrick Sheehan, toured the par-36 front nine in even par. The other soph, CB West's Luca Jezzeny, and the senior, Souderton's Dawson Anders, were one stroke behind at 37.
"My driver was really the key," Sheehan said. "I hit it long and I was just hitting fairways and greens."
Sheehan's total might have been even better if he hadn't bogeyed the ninth hole, his eighth hole of the day, or if he hadn't bogeyed the sixth.
"I bogeyed nine," he said, "three-putted. I bogeyed the par-3 sixth which kind of hurt.
"(I had) two birdies and two bogeys. I birdied the par-3 third and the par-4 seventh."
Sheehan also led the Patriots to the team title. CB East turned in a score of 198, four shots better than its closest competitor, Souderton at 202. Central Bucks was third in the seven-team field with a 203 while Central Bucks South was fourth with a 205.
"I'm very impressed with our top five players," said East coach Matt Wolf. "They came through really well, especially Brian McCartan with a 39.
"He's shown dramatic improvement. Last year he was a jayvee player.
"And we're excited to see what Patrick (Sheehan) can do as a sophomore. This is a great start with a 36 but, top to bottom, (it was) a really good performance by the whole team."
Jezzeny, who reached the Eastern Regionals last year as a freshman, played in the same foursome as Anders and had some troubles on the green but got it together when it counted.
"I was swinging well, hitting some good shots, hitting a lot of greens," he said. "I just couldn't make many putts until the last hole. I birdied the last."
Anders got off to a rough start, bogeying the first two holes. But he rebounded well, eagling the par-5 third hole.
But he dropped a shot on the par-4 seventh hole. And he couldn't make it up.
"I only hit four greens and my start was bad but I got an eagle on the third hole," Anders said. "No more birdies and one or two good pars.
"I wasn't striking the ball great. I got some putts to go in but I couldn't score."
Anders has had an excellent summer. He won the Montgomery County Junior Amateur and the Montgomery County Amateur and reached the match-play portion of the Golf Association of Philadelphia at Merion.
"That was a good weekend," he said of the amateur championships. "I'd like to have more weekends like that."
Two players turned in scorecards with 38s. They were North Penn's Ron Robinson and Ryan Bormann of William Tennent.
"It was a good start to the season," said Sheehan, a sentiment that was also echoed by Anders and Jezzeny. "This course isn't the easiest of courses."
His 36 might give pause to that statement. However, he has a history at Indian Valley.
When reminded that he will see it again for the Suburban One League championships, he said that his game will be "hopefully better than last time. (I shot) 80 in the SOLs (last year)."
Anders and Jezzeny echoed Sheehan's assessment of the tournament and also agreed that it was beneficial for the rest of the season.
"We see all the teams and how they are playing," said Anders. "We got to see our competition and how they play."
"We got to look at all the different teams and how they play and how we stack up against them so we are feeling pretty good," Jezzeny said. "I'm feeling pretty confident with my game and I think I can shoot some more good scores."
But it was Wolf who expressed what every member of his CB East team was thinking.
"I remember last year we had a little bit of trouble here at Indian Valley in the match and it was a little tough to rebound from," he said. "Hopefully this will help us in the beginning of the season, kind of give us a little bit of momentum going into the first week."
PENNRIDGE INVITATIONAL
CENTRAL BUCKS EAST 198, SOUDERTON 202, CENTRAL BUCKS WEST 203, CENTRAL BUCKS SOUTH 205, NORTH PENN 217, WILLIAM TENNENT 225, PENNRIDGE 240
Indian Valley Country Club
Central Bucks East (198) – Patrick Sheehan 36, Brian McCartan 39, Matt Davis 40, Hayden Rousselle 41, Matt Becker 42, Brandon Cassidy 45, Jack Haggerty 46, Drew Krause 46.
Souderton (202) – Dawson Anders 37, Anthony Barr 40, Thomas Butler 40, James O’Malley 41, Evan Kreiser 44, Jack DeSpain 47, Liam Kreag 47, Joshua Smith 50.
Central Bucks West (203) – Luca Jezzeny 37, Owen Tillger 40, Jack Farrington 41, Chaz Nestory 42, Brock Nestory 43, Drew Enright 44, Tommy Walsh 46, Brandon Gervais 46.
Central Bucks South (205) – Jack Lawlor 39, Evan Casey 40, Dylan Peniston 41, Kevin Anthony 42, Jack Cenci 43, David Shaffer 44, Colin Johnston 45, Andrew Seader 46.
North Penn (217) – Ron Robinson 38, Andrew Lombardo 44, Minjoo Kim 44, Nick Romano 45, Billy Donovan 46, Tyler Schulze 49, Ally McFarland 50, Matt Cooney 56.
William Tennent (225) – Ryan Bormann 38, Dan McCabe 42, Colin Walsh 45, David Scott 50, Ryan Foley 50.
Pennridge (240) – Michael Simpson 41, Ben Baker 46, TJ Detweiler 50, Cole White 51, Nick Perricone 52, Matt Dolan 59, Paul Croyle 60, Caroline McFadden 61.
ABINGTON 208, NESHAMINY 216
Middletown Country Club, White Tees
Abington (208) – Will Breslin 37, Zach O’Leary 38, Jacob Taylor 38, Jack Kurtz 47, Timmy Gallagher 48, Taylor Mynn 48, Victoria Monterosso 53, Andrew Garrett 54,
Neshaminy (216) – Greg DeLuca 41, Chris Benvenuto 43, Kyle Everett 43, Luke Sermarini 44, Mason Zeberlein 45, Mike Anella 45, Michael Lester 49, Bobby Gergal 50.
PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 206, CHELTENHAM 231
Green Valley Country Club
Plymouth Whitemarsh (206) – Matt Aprile 38, Jon Green 40, Jon Silberman 41, Jake Butler 43, Alec Goldberg 44, Scott Laudenbach 45, Steve Roehm 49, Jared Petrisko 54.
CHELTENHAM (231) – Stephen DeFrancis 40, Luke Fisher 45, Jack McHugh 46, Jacob Petrisko 48, Evan Gallagher 52, Henry Dobi 55, Tim McHugh 57.
UPPER DUBLIN 198, SPRINGFIELD MONTO (246)
Melrose Country club, Par 34, Slope 124
The Upper Dublin golf team beat Springfield to go 2-0 on the season. Stellar rounds were turned in by UDHS senior Davi Kim, who carded an even par 36, which was the low round of the day, and junior Jason Swartz, who shot a personal season low of 39. Rounding out the scoring for the Flying Cardinals were Brandon Jensen (39), Matt Hebling (41) and Ryan Williams (43). Upper Dublin will face Quakertown at Locust Valley on Thursday.
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