Golf Notebook: Radnor girls out for another District title

The Radnor girls golf team will be shooting for a third straight District One Class AAA team title when the district tournament commences with Round 1 at Gilbertsville Golf Club Monday. After the team champion is crowned Monday, the top finishers from Round 1 will head down Swamp Pike for the conclusion of the individual tournament Tuesday at Turtle Creek Golf Club.

Both days of the boys tournament — Monday and Tuesday — will be held at Turtle Creek with the boys team champion being crowned Tuesday.

The Radnor girls have a pretty good idea which team they will be battling for the championship — the same Mount St. Joseph team that they edged by a shot two years ago and by four shots a year ago.

Defending District One individual champion Isabella Dilisio is back to lead the way for the Mount.

“We beat them in the Spring-Ford Invitational at Linfield National, but Isabella wasn’t there,’ said Radnor sophomore Brynn Walker after blistering Turtle Creek with a 2-under 70 at the Central League Tournament Monday. “If we can get two scores in the 70s and two scores in the 80s, we’ll be tough to beat.’

Radnor pretty much got that kind of showing at Centrals with junior Julia Curley posting a 78, freshman Gabby Kim carding an 80 and senior captain Julieanne Horgan coming in with a 91 behind Walker.

Walker’s formidable game seems to have received a jolt of confidence from her recent appearance representing Pennsylvania in the USGA

Women’s State Team Championship in Kettering, Ohio. Joining forces with Kelli Pry of Coatesville and Amy Kennedy, a veteran mid-am out of the York area, Walker helped the Pennsylvania team finish 27th, last among the teams that survived a weather-induced cut. But they did a good job to make the cut and get the full three-day experience at the NCR Country Club.

“It was the best golf experience of my life so far,’ Walker said after overpowering Turtle Creek with three birdies and an eagle against three bogeys. “It was the first time juniors were allowed to play and I was nominated because I won the state Junior.’

It will be interesting to see how Walker stacks up in the district individual event against a field that includes Dilisio, reigning two-time PIAA champion Erica Herr of Council Rock North and Pennsbury’s Jackie Rogowicz, runner-up to Herr at states last year.