Pat Mitchell shot a 3-under 68 to secure his second Lackawanna County Amateur title in three years Saturday at Pine Hills Country Club in Taylor.<\/p>\n
Mitchell birdied the par-4 first hole, the par-5 fifth hole, the par-4 ninth hole and the par-4 13th hole, bogeyed the par-3 16th and parred the rest.<\/p>\n
Matt Torrisi and Doug Nardella finished in a tie for second at even-par 71.<\/p>\n
Senior division champion Bob Andrejko shot the low round for the tournament with a 4-under 67. Dave Torrisi finished second with an even-par 71.<\/p>\n
Noah Gruber secured the Amateur Division title with a 1-under 70, outdueling Mark Edwards, who shot 73.<\/p>\n
West Scranton\u2019s Adam Holman won the Boys Junior Division, shooting 1-over 72. Holy Cross\u2019 Joe Yusinski finished second with a 3-over 74. He carded the tournament\u2019s only eagle on the par-5 eighth.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights\u2019 Brianna Moffatt won her second straight Girls Junior Division title with an 81.<\/p>\n
Seventy-five golfers participated in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Mitchell shot a 3-under 68 to secure his second Lackawanna County Amateur title in three years Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-206586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}