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Overall Winner - Karishma Thiagaraj, Northwest GC - 72-79-151
Karishma Thaigaraj backed up a career-best opening-round 72 with a 79, and her 151 was enough to win the 33rd Junior Girls championship of the Maryland State Golf Association at Hog Neck Golf Course in Easton, June 24. For a second straight day, the weather was mild and sunny for the 24-player field. Thaaigaraj, 14, and her family are from India, have been in this country for only three and a half months, and this was her first tournament here. Her sister, Khushboo, 12, posted 80-85--165, and wonh the 13-under division. The girls live in Rockville and play from Northwest Park Golf Course. Caroline Sweet, 17, from Bowie and Glenn Dale GC, fashioned the best score of the day, a 3-over-par 75 for the 5,716-yard Eastern Shore course. Sweet, a recent Eleanor Roosvelt graduate and headed for the College of William & Mary, finished 79-75--154, seven shots clear of her closest pursuer. She had tied for fifth at 168 a year ago. Among the age-group leaders, Lauren Smith, from Crofton CC, finished 80-81--161 to hold off Suh Hwang, Waverly Woods GC, last year's overall runnerup, 84-78--162, in the 16-17 division. Elizabeth Silbernagle, 15, from Fallston and Maryland Golf & CC, had two consecutive solid rounds of 80-80-160, and won the 14-15 division. Elyse Smidinger, from Crofton CC, was second, 80-81--161, The younger Thaigaraj was followed in 13-under by Bryana Nguyen, Columbia and Fairway Hills GC, 84-84--168. In the 9-hole group, Alexis Calomiris, Congressional CC, won with 51-53--104, followed by Annie Rohrback, Crofton CC, 50-55--105.