Kameron And McKayla Kerle Finish In Top 15 At PIAA State Class-AA Golf Tournament

(Images by Jackie Kerle) Above: McKayla and Kameron at States

Clarion Area Bobcat golfers and siblings Kameron and McKayla Kerle each finished in the Top 15 at the PIAA State Class-AA Golf Tournament, on Monday, October 19th, at Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York.

Kameron, a freshman, shot an 8-over 79, to finish in a five-way tie for 15th place in the Boys’ match, with Cael Ropietski from Lake Lehman, Gavin June from Lackawanna Trail, R J Royer from Tyrone and Andrew Green from North Penn Mansfield.

Other Keystone Shortway Athletic Conference (KSAC) golfers who competed were Moniteau’s Jacob Felsing and Forest Area’s Ethan Carl.

McKayla, a junior, recorded a 12-over 84, placing her in a four-way tie for 13th in the Girls’ match, with Luciana Masters from Hickory, Claire Konieczny from Geible Catholic and Chloe Sipe from Elk Lake. Karns City’s Chloe Fritch finished on shot behind them, with an 85, in a four way-way tie for 17th.

Moniteau’s Emma Covert also competed.

The Boys’ medalist was Josh James from Union City, who shot a 1-over 72 and for the Girls’ it was Paige Richter from Camp Hill, who shot a 1-over 73.

There were seventy-two golfers in the Boys’ field and thirty-six in the Girls’ field.

Clarion Area Coaches Jay and Jackie Kerle, are very pleased with the performances their son and daughter turned in.

“Kameron and McKayla’s parents are very pleased with the season As a coaches and parents, we are really proud of the golf season that our kids have had. They have worked really hard and this tournament was a great accomplishment.” 

“It was a long couple of days. Heritage Hills is a long course, the kids rounds took 6 hours to play in super windy cold conditions.”

McKayla shared her thoughts on her round, “I was 8 over on just the par 3’s today and 12 over total for the day.  The par 3’s got the best of me, if I played them a little better, my score would have been more where I wanted it to be. My goal was to make the top 10 and I missed it by one stroke. Overall I’m glad that I made it to the state tournament and will hopefully get another shot at it next year.”

And Kameron’s thoughts, “ I was even on the par 5’s and I should have been under on them. My goal for the day was to shoot in the 70’s. Even though I met that goal, I had couple bad breaks and had trouble getting the ball to spin and stop on the greens. My goal for next year is to make it back to the state tournament.”

Kameron and McKayla are both thankful for all of the support from friends, family and Clarion Oaks golf course this whole golf season.

(Thanks to Jackie Kerle for the images. CONGRATULATIONS, KAMERON AND MCKAYLA!!!! YOU MAKE US CLARION PROUD!!!!)