Virginia Tech, with two Triad golfers in its starting five, finished second, one spot ahead of Wake Forest and another local player at the Wolfpack Match Play tournament, which concluded Tuesday at Lonnie Poole Golf Course in Raleigh.
North Carolina won the eight-team event, knocking off Virginia Tech 3-2 in the championship round. Virginia Tech’s Morgan Ketchum won her match 1-up over UNC’s Inez Ng. Teammate Emily Matthews lost to UNC’s Megan Streicher 1-up.
For the tournament, Ketchum (pictured) and Wake Forest’s Macy Pate, former teammates at Reagan High, each went 2-1. Mathews, a former star at Eastern Alamance, went 1-2.
Virginia was fourth in the team race ahead of Augusta, N.C. State, Princeton and Coastal Carolina.
In a matchup between Wake and Virginia Tech, the Hokies prevailed 3-2 with Pate and Mathews winning 1-up decisions while Ketchum was defeated by Rachel Kuehn 3 and 2.
Kuehn had tied for eighth over the weekend at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
