The Seneca Falls Country Club Canal Cup squad defeated Silver Creek on Sunday, August 21, 2022 to win back the Cup from Silver Creek. This was the 15th win for SFCC in the history of the matches but the first time the Cup was won by Seneca Falls since 2019. After Sunday’s win, SFCC has won 15 times to Silver Creek’s 3 victories.
The matches, conducted at Seneca Falls Country Club, were tied after the first 18 holes with Silver Creek edging SFCC in the front-nine Alternate Shot format. SFCC evened the overall score following the Best Ball format on the back-nine. In the final, 2-man scramble format, SFCC jumped out to a lead securing the first two matches before rain delayed play for about 90 minutes. Following the rain delay SFCC secured the cup when Dan Kernan and Jim Sinicropi closed out their match on the 8th green. Full results are below.
ALTERNATE SHOT
Tab Carman/Josh Durso DEF Doug Brown/Kevin Schweitz
Norm Sharman/Don Johnson DEF Matt Walters/Shaun Cook
John Sandlas/Bob Smith DEF Gary Millerd/Bill Paul
Mike Burdsall/Jeff Kapps DEF Mark Hylwa/Ben Wong
Jim Sinicropi/Dan Kernan DEF Mike Strohm/Bummer Felice
Matt Olmstead/Brian Yarnot TIED Scoot Stein/George Mander
SFCC 2.5
SCGC 3.5
BEST BALL
Tab Carman/Josh Durso DEF Doug Brown/Kevin Schweitz
Matt Walters/Shaun Cook TIED Norm Sharman/Don Johnson
John Sandlas/Bob Smith DEF Gary Millerd/Bill Paul
Mark Hylwa/Ben Wong DEF Mike Burdsall/Jeff Kapps
Mike Strohm/Bummer Felice DEF Jim Sinicropi/Dan Kernan
Matt Olmstead/Brian Yarnot DEF Scoot Stein/George Mander
SFCC 6.0
SCGC 6.0
SCRAMBLE
Doug Brown/Kevin Schweitz DEF Tab Carman/Josh Durso
Matt Walters/Shaun Cook DEF Norm Sharman/Don Johnson
John Sandlas/Bob Smith DEF Gary Millerd/Bill Paul
Mark Hylwa/Ben Wong DEF Mike Burdsall/Jeff Kapps
Jim Sinicropi/Dan Kernan DEF Mike Strohm/Bummer Felice
Scoot Stein/George Mander DEF Matt Olmstead/Brian Yarnot
SFCC 5.0
SCGC 1.0
TOTAL:
SENECA FALLS COUNTRY CLUB – 11.0 *
SILVER CREEK GOLF CLUB – 7.0
* SFCC WINS CANAL CUP
