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Arnold
Cutrell won his third Jay Sigel Match Play Championship
conducted by the Pennsylvania Golf Association, while Paul
Schlachter won his first in the senior division of the Sigel.
Both were played at Stonewall GC in Elverson, near Philadelphia,
on May 10-11.
Cutrell beat Eric Williams in the final, 5 & 4, while Schlachter
defeated Tom Bartolacci, 3 & 1, in his finals.
Other
area players in the Sigel were Frank Fairman, Punxsutawney; Adam
Hofmann, Oakmont; Sean Knapp, St. Jude/Longue Vue; and David
Brown, St. Clair. All but Fairman won their first round
matches and lost in the second.
Area
senior players were Schlachter, Ed Strickler, Huntingdon; Joe
Cordaro, Nevillewood; Don Erickson, III, DuBois; John Benson,
Punxsutawney, and Bill Baloh, Hannastown. Erickson and
Benson joined Schlachter in the semi-finals, where Benson, the
defending champion, lost to Bartolacci, while Schlachter
defeated Erickson. This was Schlachter’s seventh state title,
and his first senior match play.
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