Olivia Zambruno of Greensburg CC Repeats as PIAA Girls Golf Champ
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | 1:19 PM
Junior Olivia Zambruno has become the golden girl on the links. Three weeks after repeating as WPIAL Girls Class AA champion, she was able to repeat as PIAA Class AA champion Tuesday at the Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York. Her two day total was 153, ten strokes better than runner-up Amber Hess of Keystone. She was the only WPIAL golfer to win gold, but a pair of Boys Class AA golfer finished in the Top 3 as 2014 WPIAL winner Chris Tanabe of Quaker Valley finished second with a 150, four strokes behind champion Nate Mennon of Wyomissing while 2015 WPIAL champion Jason Li finished third with a 151. WPIAL Girls AAA champion Marissa Balish finished in third place with a 154.
Beside Zambruno wining Girls AA and Mennon winning Boys AA, Steve Cerbara of Holy Ghost Prep edged Geoff Rice of Great Valley in a one hole playoff to win Boys AAA with a 147 while Brynne Walker of Radnor won Girls AAA with a 150.
Here are how the district golfers fared at the two day PIAA state individual golf championships. The PIAA state team finals set for Wednesday, have been postponed until Thursday.
BOYS CLASS AAA:
T-7th: Palmer Jackson (Franklin Regional) – 153
T-9th: Noah Firmstone (Moon) – 154
T-9th: Brady Pevarnik (Latrobe) – 154
14th: Alec Stopperich (Peters Township) – 156
T-18th: Justin Guzik (Penn-Trafford) – 160
T-26th: Connor Schmidt (Peters Township) – 164
T-26th: Alex Lawson (Fox Chapel) – 164
T-32nd: Jimmy Meyers (Pittsburgh Central Catholic) – 165
34th: Tanner Johnson (Peters Township) – 167
BOYS AA:
2nd: Chris Tanabe (Quaker Valley) – 150
3rd: Jason Li (Sewickley Academy) – 151
4th: Evan Long (Laurel) – 153
7th: Mike Kondratik (Charleroi) – 159
T-13th: Cody Dobbin (Burgettstown) – 163
T-16th: Declan Hickton (Sewickley Academy) – 167
T-22nd: Sam Smallhoover (Bishop Canevin) – 167
T-28th: Luke Dziak (Bentworth) – 170
T-28th: Tucker Skerbetz (Laurel) – 170
T-31st: Austin Lis (Burgettstown) – 172
T-31st: Scott Brown (Sewickley Academy) – 172
T-34th: Liam Shea (Carmichaels) – 175
GIRLS AAA:
3rd: Marissa Balish (Hampton) – 154
T-4th: Mia Kness (Peters Township) – 155
T-4th: Maddy McDanel (Central Valley) – 155
7th: Lauren Freyvogel (Pine-Richland) – 157
10th: Megan Leto (North Allegheny) – 163
12th: Caroline Wrigley (North Allegheny) – 166
GIRLS AA:
CHAMP: Olivia Zambruno (Greensburg Central Catholic) – 153
3rd: Marissa Kirkwood (Neshannock) – 164
6th: Audrey Dougherty (Freeport) – 172
7th: Katie Carlson (Avonworth) – 176
13th: Annika Erdely (Frazier) – 187
17th: Abby Zambruno (Greensburg Central Catholic) – 193
Tags: Greensburg C.C.
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