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U.S. Junior Girls' Championship: 2 Palm Beach County golfers reach match play quarterfinals
Jupiter's Grace Carter and Boca Raton's Chloe Kovelesky are making a week of it at the U.S. Junior Girls' Championship in Georgia.
Carter and Kovelesky advanced to the match play quarterfinals with a pair of victories on the Riverside Course at Atlanta Athletic Club on July 17.
Carter, who took low medalist and the No. 1 match play seed after the first two rounds of stroke play, won her Round of 32 matchup 3 and 2 over California's Lucinda Wu.
She built a big lead early over Canada's Clairey Lin in the Round of 16 and held on to win 1 up.
Carter, 15, is a rising high school freshman who played varsity golf last year with Brevard HEAT. She is the reigning and multi-time women's club champion at Jonathan's Landing Golf Club in Jupiter.
Kovelesky, a rising sophomore at Wake Forest University, won her Round of 32 matchup over Thailand's OneOn Sriwong 2 and 1.
She pulled off a huge comeback against California's Anna Fang in the Round of 16, overturning a three-hole deficit after eight holes to win on the 22nd hole of match play.
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Carter will face Australia's Shyla Singh at 8a.m. on July 18 in the day's first matchup on the course.
Kovelesky will face Canada's Aphrodite Deng, the No. 2 ranked player in the latest American Junior Golf Association rankings, with the morning's final tee time at 8:50 a.m.
Eric J. Wallace is deputy sports editor for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at ejwallace@
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