Traverse City Record-Eagle

July 2, 2009

Local Sports In Brief: 07/02/2009

FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

Crouch, Katona win Glen Arbor tourney

GLEN ARBOR -- Charlie Crouch and Joe Katona won the men's doubles championship at the Glen Arbor Tennis Tournament.

The pair topped Rick Badinger and Larry Daniel in the finals, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3.

Kim Guilbeau and Jordi Justribo won the mixed doubles crown with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Mackenzie Magee and Katona.

The teams of Jackie Olson and Kim Guilbeau and Nancy Schafer and Barb Hodge shared the women's doubles tourney after coming out of the round-robin event with the same records.

The open doubles event was won by Magee and Demetrios Buck. In that event, 16 individuals played seven rounds of doubles games with different partners. Magee and Buck ended the with best records for the day.

Hebert 16 at PGA Nat. Championship

SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. -- Mike Small won the PGA Professional National Championship for the second time in five years, closing with a 3-under 68 on Wednesday for a one-stroke victory over Mark Sheftic and Steve Schneiter.

Grand Traverse Resort & Pro's Scott Hebert finished tied for 16th after shooting a 69 Wednesday. His four-day total of 282 put him in a playoff and he was one of five players to qualify for this year's PGA Championship at Hazeltine.

Small, the golf coach at the University of Illinois, had a 7-under 277 total.

Schneiter finished with a 71, and Sheftic shot a 72. Craig Thomas (68), Ryan Benzel (69), Eric Lippert (70) and Lee Rinker (71) tied for fourth at 5 under.

Calif. native leads Jr. Championship

HARBOR SPRINGS -- Ryann Ree, of Redondo Beach, Calif., opened with 67 Wednesday to lead the boys division of the Coca-Cola Junior All-Star Championship at Boyne Highlands.

Vivian Tsui of Ontario leads the girls division after shooting a 73.

The Coca-Cola Junior All-Star Championship at Boyne Highlands is a 54-hole stroke play event being played on the Moor Course.

There are 101 boys and 32 girls -- ages 12-15 -- competing in the event.

Ree's 67 was a personal best.

Three shots back is Jordan Niebrugge of Mequon, Wis. Chandler Fischer of Nicholasville, Ky., is in third place at 71, while Tee-k Kelly of Wheaton, Ill., and Caleb Barker of Highlands Ranch, Colo., are tied for fourth at even-par 72.

In the Girls Division, Tsui currently leads by two over Emma Smyser, of Naples, Fla., who shot a 3-over-par 75.

There is a three-way tie for third at 77.