The REPORTER
Two junior golfers with Hamilton County ties have earned semifinal places in the Indiana Boys State Junior Championship, which continued Thursday at Purdue University’s Ackerman-Allen Course.
Noblesville’s Tyler Marucci punched his ticket to the last four with a 4&3 quarterfinal victory over Gas City’s Landon Tropf. Marucci will play Boonville’s Alex Cook in a semifinal match this morning.
Eli Wessel, a recent Guerin Catholic graduate, advanced to the semis by beating Fort Wayne’s Caden Baker 4&2. Wessel will play Roanoke’s Landon Snyder in the other semifinal.
The semifinals begin at 8 a.m. this morning, with the two winners facing off for the championship, which will be played immediately following the semifinals.
Round of 16 results
Marucci and Wessel were two of the six local players that competed in the Round of 16 at the State Junior on Thursday morning. Marucci got past Elkhart’s Benjamin Divido in 20 holes, while Wessel beat Carmel’s Patrick Wolf 6&4.
In other matches involving county golfers, Westfield’s Ryan Cesare fell to Spencerville’s Christian Hicks 3&1, Tropf beat Fishers’ Mattingly Upchurch 2 Up and Middlebury’s Luke Haarer defeated Fishers’ Dane Starnes 3&2.
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