Matthew Morrone and Zach Martin (photo) started a birdie run on No. 13 Saturday at Reserve Run Golf Course that didn’t end until the course ended and they carded a 59. The saucy stretch launched them into a tie in the ‘Joe’ Dickey Electric Juniors 2-player scramble event and an eventual win based on back-9 score tiebreaker.
The Poland pair dueled in the Coaches Burger Bar u17 Boys division with Badger’s Ian Tricker and Hudson Rice and their first-in 59.
“The front 9 was rough,” said Martin, now a Baldwin Wallace student. “But we lit it up on the back 9 — making putts, hitting fairways, sticking greens.”
Tricker and Rice posted a 59 with great work all around the course, including 2 eagles powered by Tricker’s shots – one on the opening No. 1 par 5.
Said Rice of Tricker’s work on the eagles: “Good drives. Good putts. He made them look easy. I was just watching and waving my pom-poms around.”
Rice is a 2024 grad, now at Mount Union. Tricker graduates this month and will play golf at Hocking College in the fall.
In the Reserve Run u17 Girls Division, the Canfield High duo of Rhyloh Turpack and Mia Tisone scored a 78 to beat out by 1 shot the father-daughter Canfield duo of Tom and Natalie Sawicki.
In the Ambrose Family Eye Care u14 Girls play, Madison Do of Mars and Katelyn Plummer of Grove City won the tiebreaker in their division, beating out United Local’s Claire Whetstone and Mati Zines. Both shot 70s.
And in the Morrone Mechanical Boys u14 play, the father-son South Range duo of Brad and Braden Meshula pounded out a 66 for their win.
The Greatest juniors series, presented also by Phantom Fireworks, features 10 events from May 10 to July 16, then a 36-hole finals July 18-19 at Avalon Lakes. It’s Ohio and Pennsylvania’s least expensive yet most competitive summer play for high schoolers. Register at TheGreatestGolfer.com. The next event is an 18-hole individual event that tees off May 31 at The Lake Club — the 16-year home of Greatest Golfer.
U14 Boys | Morrone Mechanical
66 Braden Meshula Brad Meshula
68 Logan Poultney John Poultney
73 Marcus Rickert Matt Rickert
73 Chris Morrone Taylor Morrone
74 Bohdi Forman Brian Forman
87 Enzo Farina Jim Farina
U14 Girls | Ambrose Family Eye Center
70 Madison Do Katelyn Plummer
70 Claire Whetstone Mati Zines
86 Laney Allen Vince Allen
U17 Boys | Coaches Burger Bar
59 Ian Tricker Hudson Rice
59 Matthew Morrone Zach Martin
63 AJ Battaglia Ryan Lombardo
63 Breen Dahman Chase Forsythe
66 Trenton Hall Papa Hall
67 Austin Mariani Mark Mariani
68 Joey Wollet Dan Horacek
69 Brennan Proya Andy Proya
69 David Masters Brad Masters
69 Shane Barnes Karsten Baker
69 Chase Ogden Parker Ogden
71 Papa Chaplow Danny Chaplow
88 Caden Arcuri Gregory Arcuri
103 Preston Lawton Mr. Lawton
U17 Girls |Reserve Run
78 Rhyloh Turpack Mia Tisone
79 Natalie Sawicki Tom Sawicki
80 Chloe Leskovac Lorin Sam
84 Natalie Mastrangelo Sophia DiDomenico
85 Madeline Isenberg Olivia Norris