Brad Clark of Chapel Hill shot an even-par 71 Wednesday to finished tied for second in a qualifying round for the 18th North Carolina Mid-Amateur Championship. Michael Swiger of Raleigh was medalist with a 68.

Clark was near the top of a field of 31 golfers who qualified Wednesday at the TPC Wakefield Plantation in Raleigh. Another 59 missed the cut.

The CGA's 18th North Carolina Mid-Amateur Championship, hosted by the Carolinas Golf Association, will be played Sept. 7-9 at River Run Country Club in Davidson.

Sarah Bae of Cary has been chosen the girls winner of the N.C. Junior Player of the Year award by the Tarheel Youth Golf Association and the Carolinas Golf Association, the organizations announced Monday.

Bae, a 16-year-old sophomore at Athens Drive High School in Raleigh, and boys winner Davis Womble of High Point, a 17-year-old junior at Wesleyan Christian Academy, will be honored at the N.C. Junior Golf Night Awards Banquet on Dec. 27 at Pine Needles Resort in Southern Pines.

The all-state girls and boys teams also will be recognized.

Grant Houser of Holly Springs, Thomas Bass of Holly Springs and Jordan Walor of Wake Forest reached the quarterfinals of the inaugural N.C. Amateur Match Play Championship, but it was a player from outside the Triangle who took the title.

Payne McLeod, 19, of Reidsville defeated Ryan Heisey of Greensboro 1-up in the final match on Sunday at The Country Club of Salisbury.

The finalists combined for 13 birdies and an eagle in their 18-hole match, the Carolinas Golf Association, which conducted the competition, said in a news release. (More results are below.)

Taelor Rubin of Raleigh led from start to finish in winning the 44th Twin States Junior Girls Golf Championship on Wednesday at The Windermere Club in Blythewood, S.C.

Rubin, 17, shot a final-round 73 to finish with a 1-under-par 143 and a three-stroke victory over Collins Bradshaw of Columbia, S.C.

Eric Bae of Cary had to play extra holes, but that didn't stop him from winning his first Carolinas Golf Association title.

Bae defeated Raleigh's Harrison Rhoades on the third playoff hole to win the N.C. Junior Boys 13-and-Under Championship at the Asheboro Municipal Golf Course in Asheboro on Tuesday. (Complete results are below.)

Durham's Rob Stover has qualified for the inaugural N.C. Amateur Match Play Championship to be played Aug. 4-8 at the Country Club of Salisbury.

In sectional qualifying conducted Wednesday by the Carolinas Golf Association, Stover shot a 3-over-par 74 at Pine Island Country Club in Charlotte to share 18th place.

Thirty-nine golfers made the cut, which fell at 5-over 76. (Complete results are below.)

Will Almand of Cary tied for first place with Greensboro's Jordan Utley on Tuesday in leading the Triangle's contingent of qualifiers for the inaugural N.C. Amateur Match Play Championship, which will be played Aug. 4-8 at the Country Club of Salisbury.

Almand and Utley each shot a 4-under-par 68 in the sectional qualifying event conducted by the Carolinas Golf Association at the Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro. (Complete results below.)

Triangle golfers took three of the top 10 spots in a sectional
qualifying tournament played Friday for next month's North Carolina
Amateur Championship.

Zach Edmondson of Morrisville won the qualifier at River Landing's
River course in Wallace by shooting a 3-under-par 69 for a one-stroke
victory over Fayetteville's Jack Keefe and Hampstead's David Donovan,
who each shot a 70.

Raleigh's Cyrus Stewart shared fourth place with three other golfers at
71, and Keith Waters was in a three-man group tied for eighth place at
par 72.

Local-level U.S. Open qualifying tournaments completed Tuesday and
Wednesday in Pinehurst and Wallace saw golfers from Raleigh and
Pinehurst claim places in sectional qualifying. Competitors from Chapel
Hill and Wake Forest were left waiting in alternate spots.

Wallace: In Wednesday's local qualifier on River Landing's River
Course in Wallace, Jason Moon of Raleigh tied for second at 6-under-par
66 and Bobby Clampett of Raleigh shared fourth place at 67 to take two
of the five sectionals spots. Ryan Armour of Jupiter, Fla., won the
event with a 65.

Pinehurst: In the local qualifier at Pinewild Country Club's
Magnolia Course in Pinehurst that started Monday but had to be
completed Tuesday because of rain, nine qualifying spots and two
alternate positions were available. Darron Stiles of Pinehurst shot a 6-under-par 66 for a one-stroke victory.

What a memorable May 13 for Raleigh's Paul Simson. 

He will be inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame tonight
fresh off winning his 22nd Carolinas Golf Association championship
earlier in the day.

Simson, the defending champion, shot a
final-round 69 to take a four-stroke victory and reclaim the N.C.
Senior Amateur Championship at Forsyth Country Club in Winston Salem.