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  Willow Oaks GC: Fall Invitational: overall champions: Steve Serrao-Jay Serrao 134; senior champions: John Casstevens-George Owens 134
  Salisbury CC: Fall Fling: first place (gross): Gary Dimenna-Debbie Dimenna-Tom Bernhardt-Susan Bernhardt 63; first place (net): Larry Sykes-Rita Sykes-Dave Bradham-Doris Bradham 58; 9 holes (net): Lyle Cooper-Jeanette Cooper-Ken Pember-Susan Pember 29

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  Jefferson Lakeside CC: Low net in classes: 0-12: Ron Williams 69; 13 and up: Barry White 68
Mixed event: first place (gross): Linda Paret-Ed Gelletly-Dina Boettcher-Bob Gallo 67; first place (net): Alice Hale-Dick Hale-Janet Rickman-George Rickman 54.2

Richmond Golf Association Junior champion Bryce Chalkley picked up another winner’s trophy at Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg. Chalkley, 16, posted a final-round 71 on the resort’s famed River Course for a 54-hole total of 7-under-par 206 to win the AJGA Junior at Kingsmill. It was his first American Junior Golf Association title. Chalkley finished three strokes clear of Peter Eiler of Holland, Pa., and five ahead of Brandon Dalinka of Newtown, Pa. Ji Soo Park of Centreville, the first-day leader, was fourth (71-212).

Dustin Groves’ fondness for the Manakin golf course at Hermitage Country Club is evident. The past seven rounds Groves has played on the course, he has posted rounds in the 60s. The last two, a 4-under-par 68 on Saturday and a 3-under 69 yesterday vaulted him to victory in the 67th Valentine Invitational. Groves’ 54-hole total of 6-under 210 was two strokes better than three-time Valentine winner Keith Decker of Martinsville and three clear of Jacob Everts of Ooltewah, Tenn.

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  RWGA: Highlands 49, Stonehenge 23; Country Club of Virginia 52.5, Richmond 19.5; Meadowbrook 36.5, Willow Oaks 35.5; Brandermill 34.5, Salisbury 37.5; Hermitage 47.5, Meadowbrook 24.5; Hanover 33.5, Dominion 38.5

POWHATAN—Two extra holes have been good to Ben Keefer during the summer golf season. His good fortune continued yesterday in the Richmond Golf Association Mid-Amateur Championship at Mill Quarter. Keefer, a 30-year-old Hermitage Country Club member, fired a final round 6-under-par 66 that gave him a two-day total of 6-under 138. Tim Kelley equaled the 138 total with a 67.

POWHATAN—Years have gone by since Robert Nussey Jr. has been at the top of the leader board in a Richmond Golf Association tournament. Nussey, winner of the 1997 RGA Men’s Amateur and one of the commonwealth’s top players into the early part of the 2000s, fired a 6-under-par 66 at Mill Quarter Plantation yesterday and leads the RGA Mid-Amateur by four strokes.

Reigning Richmond Women’s Golf Association champion Lyberty Anderson shot an opening-round 84 at Spring Creek Golf Club in Gordonsville in the American Junior Golf Association Junior All-Star at Spring Creek tournament. Anderson, 13, is 16 shots behind leader Paveenuch Sritragul of Bangkok, Thailand, who posted a 4-under-par 68. The tournament is open to boys and girls ages 12 to 15.

Coming off a good finish among amateurs in the SunTrust State Open, Bryce Chalkley shares the lead with Tanner Foutz after the opening round in the Richmond Golf Association Junior Championship. The two 16-year-olds posted 1-under-par rounds of 71 yesterday at The Traditions Golf Club at The Crossings. The final round of the 36-hole tourney is today.

MIDLOTHIAN—Josh Meador fired an 8-under 64 today to take the early first-round lead in the SunTrust State Open at Independence Golf Club. The Mechanicsville native shook close his inward half with three straight birdies, including a 15-footer on No. 18. “I made a couple of more putts that I usually do,“ said Meador, who won here two years ago. “I made some good shots that I wasn’t expecting.“Meador, who failed to make the cut in 2009 after first-round 77, holds a one-shot lead over two-time champion Faber Jamerson of Appomattox. Jamerson, who polished off his round with five birdies in a row, turned in a 64 on the 7,127-yard course that has yielded several good scores.

The golf course at Richmond Country Club wasn’t so nice to Jeff Bostic the first time he tried to qualify for a tournament there. When Corbin Smith was in high school at Benedictine, RCC was the golf team’s home course. Smith, 25, hadn’t seen it since until he played a practice round last week for the Richmond Golf Association Men’s Amateur Championship, which began yesterday.

Thirteen-year-old Lyberty Anderson, a seventh-grader at Bailey Bridge Middle School, played the first nine holes in 4-under par today and rolled to a 5 and 4 victory over former champion and pre-tournament favorite Boodie McGurn in the quarterfinal round of the RWGA city amateur golf playoffs.

Five-time RWGA champion Natalie Easterly gives her putting line a worm’s-eye look during a first-round match with Angie Nguyen. Four-time RWGA champion Boodie McGurn missed this putt but rolled to victory over Margaret McGehee. Next up is medalist Lyberty Anderson. Experience is a valuable but at times fickle ally. Just ask Natalie Easterly and Maggie Balch. Experience helped rescue five-time former champion Easterly during the first day of the Richmond Women’s Golf Association tournament match play at Salisbury Country Club. But it left three-time winner Balch to fend for herself.

Lyberty Anderson, a 13-year-old seventh-grader from Bailey Bridge Middle School, shot 1-under-par 71 today at Salisbury Country Club to win a second consecutive RWGA city amateur qualifying medal. Anderson played her first four holes in 4-under (par, eagle, birdie, birdie). The absence of defending champion Kristine Rohrbaugh means that Anderson will carry the No. 1 seed into tomorrow’s first round of match play.—Vic Dorr

This much is certain about the 2009 Richmond Women’s Golf Association city amateur tournament: Kristine Rohrbaugh won’t win back-to-back championships. Rohrbaugh, the William and Mary sophomore-to-be who defeated four-time champion Boodie McGurn in the 2008 final, won’t participate in next week’s event at Salisbury Country Club. She’ll compete, instead, in the prestigious women’s Eastern Amateur, which will take place June 10-12 on the Wintergreeen Resort’s Stoney Creek course.