Spackenkill freshman Stanley Garrant made four birdies on the front nine.

Both Harcher and Garrant qualified for the state tournament. Garrant  made a birdie on the second playoff hole to eighth of nine qualifying spots.

OCIAA champion David Powers of Eldred, a state qualifier last season, missed the cut (163), shooting 84-85-169.

The second round started a half-hour earlier, 11:30 a.m.

Play was stopped at 4:14 p.m. due to thunder and was resumed slightly after 5 p.m. with four of the six groups on the course.

Rodriguez, who turns 15 on Friday (May 23), fired a 1-over-par 75 in the second round for a two-round score of 5-over 149.

Rodriguez talks about winning Cornwall’s first section title since 1995.

Ryan’s two-round score of 15-over 157 was 11 strokes better than second-place Caroline Roberto of Highland.

The top nine golfers advanced to the state tournament on June 8-9 at SUNY Delhi.

Section 9 tournament
(Second and final round at Apple Greens Golf Course, Highland, par 71)

Meg Ryan (Warwick) 81-76-157; Caroline Roberto (Highland) 86-82-168; Bernice Lee (New Paltz) 88-84-172; Hannah Fleckenstein (Newburgh Free Academy) 89-84-173; Katie Krahulik (Warwick) 90-88-178; Kendra DeMartino (Valley Central) 91-93-184; Danielle Stratton (Fallsburg) 95-91-186; Alice Lee (New Paltz) 99-91-190; Katie O’Reilly (Warwick) 95-97-192.

Missed cut: Madison Levine (Fallsburg) 53-46-99-94-193; Emily Thatcher (Monroe-Woodbury) 53-50-103-92-195;   Rachel Menoutis (Warwick)101-96-197; Lia Rinaldi 98-110-208;  Taylor Knapp (Monticello) 113-99-212; Savannah Maas (John S. Burke Catholic) 109-103-212; Haley Heins (Monticello) 106-110-216; Bridget DeHaan (Warwick) 106-112-218; Katie Biagi (Goshen) 116-120-236.

Class AA
Quarterfinals
Saturday, May 25
No. 5 Newburgh Free Academy at No. 4 Valley Central, 1 p.m.
No. 7 Minisink Valley at No. 2 Pine Bush, 1 p.m.
No. 6 Warwick at No. 3 Roosevelt, 1 p.m.
Semifinals
Tuesday, May 28
NFA/Valley Central winner at No. 1 Kingston, 4 p.m.
Minisink/Pine Bush winner vs. Warwick/Roosevelt winner at highest remaining seed, 4 p.m.
Final
Thursday, May 30
Semifinal winners at Dutchess Stadium, time TBD

Class A
Quarterfinals
Saturday, May 25
No. 5 Wallkill at No. 4 Goshen, 1 p.m.
No. 6 Red Hook at No. 3 Port Jervis, 1 p.m.
Semifinals
Tuesday, May 28
Goshen/Wallkill winner at No. 1 Cornwall, 4 p.m.
Red Hook/Port Jervis winner at No. 2 New Paltz, 4 p.m.
Final
Thursday, May 30
Semifinal winners at SUNY New Paltz, 4 p.m.

Class B
Quarterfinals
Saturday, May 25
No. 5 Marlboro at No. 4 Onteora, 1 p.m.
Semifinals
Tuesday, May 28
Marlboro/Onteora winner at No. 1 Highland, 4 p.m.
No. 3 Spackenkill at No. 2 James I. O’Neill, 4 p.m.
Final
Thursday, May 30
Semifinal winners at Dutchess Stadium, time TBD

Class C
Quarterfinals
Saturday, May 25
No. 5 S.S. Seward at No. 4 Tri-Valley, 1 p.m.
Semifinals
Tuesday, May 28
Seward/Tri-Valley winner at No. 1 Chester, 4 p.m.
No. 3 Pine Plains at No. 2 Rhinebeck, 4 p.m.
Final
Wednesday, May 29
Semifinal winners at SUNY New Paltz, 4 p.m.

Class D
Final
Tuesday, May 28
No. 1 Eldred vs. No. 2 John A. Coleman Catholic at SUNY New Paltz, 4 p.m.

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Class AA
Kingston, the OCIAA Division I regular season champion, is the No. 1 seed for good reason, but the rest of this very competitive bracket is also packed with title contenders. Pine Bush and Newburgh Free Academy proved to be up to the task in the Division I regular season. Warwick held off Minisink Valley and Valley Central to win the Division II title, but all three of those teams have a shot at making a run. Roosevelt, which played in the MHAL championship game, can’t be ignored either.
The favorite: Kingston. The Tigers have returned plenty of talent from the 2012 state championship team, including top pitchers Sam Einhorn and Sean DeBrosky. Kingston has a pair of No. 1-caliber pitchers, making them tough to beat at this time of year.
Team to watch: Newburgh Free Academy. The Goldbacks finished the regular season on an incredible hot streak, winning seven straight to finish 11-9 and clinch a postseason berth. Will that carry over into the playoffs?
Player to watch: Will Marmor, Sr., of, Warwick: Marmor has been Warwick’s top run-producer, batting .375 with 19 RBI in 56 at-bats.

Class A
Marlboro played in the Section 9 Class A championship game last season, losing to eventual state champion Cornwall. With the Dukes now playing in Class B, the A bracket has been thinned out considerably. Still, Cornwall, Goshen, Port Jervis, Wallkill and New Paltz should make for a competitive tournament.
The favorite: Cornwall. The Dragons finished the regular season with a losing record (9-10), but Cornwall was 7-2 in Division III games, winning the division title for a 10th straight season. Cornwall lost a great deal of experience to graduation, but catcher Steve Octave and pitcher Steve Powles were keys to the Dragons’ state title last season.
Team to watch:Wallkill. The Panthers have outscored opponents 157-79 this season and have quality wins against Pine Bush and Highland, but Wallkill split two-game sets with both Cornwall and New Paltz.

Goshen shortstop Tyler Eisenbacher (#2) dives but is unable to stop a base hit by Burke batter Stephen Cushing during their Boys Varsity baseball game against Burke in Goshen, NY on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (CHET GORDON photo/Times Herald-Record)

Player to watch: Tyler Eisenbacher, Sr., p/ss, Goshen. Eisenbacher has been a star on the football field and the basketball court for the Gladiators. That has extended to the baseball diamond, as Eisenbacher is the team’s top hitter and No. 1 pitcher.

Class B
Highland, Marlboro and James I. O’Neill all will compete in this bracket, but the championship game could wind up being the fourth meeting of the season between Spackenkill and Onteora. The MHAL Division III rivals split the regular season series, with each team winning on the road. Both teams swept through the rest of the division schedule, setting up a one-game playoff for the division title on May 14. Spackenkill won, 4-3.
The favorite: Spackenkill. The Spartans are the defending Section 9 champions. Senior Kenny Herrera is batting .476, getting on base at a .590 clip and has scored 26 runs and driven in 13 in 83 plate appearances.
Team to watch: Onteora. The Indians have played in a Section 9 championship game just once, having lost to Highland in the 1996 Class C final, 7-6.
Player to watch: Kevin Crill, Jr., ss/p, James I. O’Neill: Crill is having a terrific season on the mound, as he’s gone 6-0 in his six starts with 37 strikeouts and 23 hits allowed in 43 innings pitched. At the plate, he’s batting .444 with 32 hits in 72 at-bats.

Class C
Five different schools have won championships in this bracket over the last five seasons: Tri-Valley, S.S. Seward, Pine Plains, Webutuck and Millbrook. This year, a new school could join that list as Chester looks for its first Section 9 baseball title since 1989.
The favorite: Chester. Ryan Cabrera has been absolutely dominant in most of his starts this year, as he’s tossed a pair of no-hitters and a perfect game. The Hambletonians have a solid No. 2 starter in Matt Coffey and a lineup that can score plenty of runs. Of Chester’s three losses, two were to Class A Goshen in early April.
Team to watch: S.S. Seward. The only Class C team to have beaten Chester this season is S.S. Seward. Nick Harty pitched a complete game for the Spartans in the 7-5 win on May 9.
Player to watch: Rodney Jester, Sr., ss, Tri-Valley: Jester played in the Section 9 Class C championship game as a sophomore and a junior. Will the Bears’ offensive leader make it three appearances in a row in the big game?

Class D
Coleman Catholic entered the 2012 Section 9 tournament with a losing record, but the Statesmen wound up state champions. The moral of the story is: anything is possible in Class D, which has few teams in the classification in this corner of the state.
The favorite: Eldred. The Yellow Jackets haven’t played in a Section 9 final since 2006, falling in the D game to Chapel Field, 9-1. The last time Eldred won a Section 9 title was 1991, which was the school’s second in three years. Eldred had also won the title in 1989.
Team to watch: John A. Coleman Catholic. Coleman Catholic has had a great deal of success in the postseason in recent years in boys’ and girls’ basketball and baseball. The Statesmen have a shot at making it back to Binghamton this season, but it’s going to be tough, especially after the graduation of reigning state player of the year Mike Smithmyer, who was the team’s ace in 2012.
Player to watch: Bray Curreri, Jr., ss/p, Eldred: The lefty-swinging Curreri has been the focal point of Eldred’s offense all season and he’ll be counted on again as Eldred makes its return to the big stage.

Rodriguez finished with a two-round total of 5-over-par 149. Rondout Valley junior Ethan DeForest (77-78-155) and Wallkill senior Alex Harcher (78-77-155) tied for second.

Section 9 championship
(Second and final round at Casperkill Golf Club, Poughkeepsie, par 72)
The top nine golfers qualified for the state tournament on June 2-3 at Cornell University, Ithaca)

Ryan Rodriguez (Cornwall) 76-73-149; Ethan DeForest (Rondout Valley) 77-78-155; Alex Harcher (Wallkill) 78-77-155; Drew Billard (SullivanWest) 80-76-156; Sean Ginley (Warwick) 77-80-157; Ian Wilson (Spackenkill) 81-78-159; Justin Lane (Onteora) 82-80-162; *Stanley Garrant (Spackenkill) 81-82-163; # Nikolai Quigley (Warwick) 80-83-163.

* – won eighth qualifying spot on second playoff hole; # won ninth and final qualifying spot on third playoff hole.

Missed the cut: Russ Auth (Warwick) 83-80-163; ; Luke Babirad (Rhinebeck) 82-81-163; Anthony Barone (Valley Central) 80-85-165; Erik Stauderman (Spackenkill) 76-86-165; David Powers (Eldred) 84-85-169; Andre Manginelli (Kingston) 84-86-170;  James Purcell (Monroe-Woodbury) 84-86-170; Brendan Riley (James I. O’Neill) 85-85-170; Greg Allen (Spackenkill) 85-89-174; Justin Theilig (Kingston) 85-89-174; Blake Waaland (Washingtonville) 84-90-174; Tyler Prater (Millbrook) 84-94-178; Jason Donley (Goshen) 84-95-179.

It’s been a heartbreaking run in the championship for John S. Burke Catholic. Still, the Eagles deserve plenty of credit. Few teams in Section 9 – in any sport – advance to four consecutive championship games.

The Eagles hope to make it a fifth this spring and bring home the Class C title.

“That would be amazing,” said Burke Catholic senior attack Meghan Kerr, who has 60 goals this season. “It would mean a lot to us and the players that came before us. I think we can do really well because we have a lot of different players who can step up.”

Third-seeded Burke Catholic opens the tourney against Millbrook, the second seed, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Webutuck. The teams’ split a pair of meetings this season. The Burke Catholic-Millbrook winner advances to play two-time defending champion Red Hook in the final on Tuesday at Dietz Stadium in Kingston.

Along with Kerr, junior midfielder Alexis Anastasio is a scoring threat, putting up 28 goals and 10 assists. Junior attack Amber Briscone, who missed four games, has 21 goals. Meanwhile, Kariann Closs has been solid in net for the Eagles again, making 162 saves.

A win over Millbrook would set up a Burke Catholic-Red Hook rematch in the Class C final. Red Hook, which has lost one game all year, defeated the Eagles 11-7 for last year’s championship. Burke Catholic lost to Red Hook 11-10 the year before. O’Neill defeated the Eagles 13-7 in the 2010 championship and 9-8 in ‘09.

“Not many teams can say they make it to the final every year,” Burke Catholic coach Kelly Reid said. “Some teams just get blown out of the water every game and don’t have a chance. Nobody isn’t going to hand it to you, it isn’t going to be easy. We are proud of what we accomplished, but, of course, we want to win one. That’s what we are focused on doing.”

And Warwick-Minisink Valley, Part III is on tap at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the semifinals of the Section 9 Class A tournament. Host Warwick, the second seed, has defeated third-seeded Minisink Valley five times in a row dating back to the start of last year.

Warwick used a 10-0 second-half run to put away Minisink Valley 17-9 in last year’s Class A semifinals. The Wildcats went on to lose to Section 9 superpower Kingston 15-10 in their first appearance in the Class A title game.

As for Warwick-Minisink Valley, what makes the rivalry so good, so important?

“I think it might be because of location, we are located pretty close to each other.” said Warwick junior attack Kelsey Aeberli, who has 44 goals and 41 assists this season. “Plus, we all know each other. The way I look at it, it’s business on the field. Off the field, we are friends.”

Speaking of business, Warwick took care of some earlier this year, defeating Minisink Valley 17-14 on April 17. Warwick added an 18-8 win over the Warriors on May 6. However, Minisink Valley played without Section 9’s all-time leading goal scorer, senior attack Jenn Peters. She missed two weeks with flu-like symptoms, but has returned for Minisink Valley. Peters has 58 goals this season and 353 for her career.

“I definitely want to win,” Minisink Valley senior midfielder Bria Litow said. “No more losing to Warwick, we want to finally beat them. To beat Warwick, I think our defense needs to be on point, we have to win the draws and play smart.”

Added Litow: “I love playing Warwick more than any other team. It’s such an important game. It could be our last game and that will only push us even more to win.”

Laine and Parris did it in impressive fashion, defeating defending champions Matt Anastasi and Sam Lawyer of Cornwall in straight sets (6-3, 6-3).

If they can hold serve, Laine and Parris are a tough team to beat. And, their serves were on in the final.

Laine and Parris, who avenged a loss in the OCIAA semifinals last week, were broken just one time by Anastasi and Lawyer, who are solid returners.

They talked about their victory.

Fleming defeated Cornwall junior Ernesto Dillon, the 2011 section champion, 6-4, 3-1 retired.

Fleming talks about winning the section title.

Dillon and Fleming will play for the fourth time this season. Dillon defeated Fleming twice in the regular season and in the OCIAA final. All scores have been 6-1, 6-2.

Newburgh Free Academy eighth-grader Tyler Reede pushed Dillon in a semifinal. Dillon fought off two break points at 4-4 to defeat Reede 6-3, 6-4.

Cornwall seniors Matt Anastasi and Sam Lawyer are one win away from defending their section doubles title.

Anastasi and Lawyer have lost just two games in three tournament matches. They will Newburgh Free Academy’s Jacques Laine and Danny Parris in final. Anastasi and Lawyer defeated Laine and Parris 6-4, 6-3 in an OCIAA semifinal last week.

Section 9 championships
(at Match Point Tennis, Goshen)
Singles: Davis Fleming (James I. O’Neill) d. Ernesto Dillon (Cornwall) 6-4, 3-1 (retired).
Consolation final: Tyler Reede (Newburgh Free Academy) d. Jonah Berkowitz (Roosevelt) 6-2, 6-4.
Semifinals: Ernesto Dillon (Cornwall) d. Tyler Reede (Newburgh Free Academy) 6-3, 6-4; Davis Fleming (James I. O’Neill) d. Jonah Berkowitz (Roosevelt) 6-3, 7-5.

Doubles
Final: Jacques Laine-Danny Parris (Newburgh Free Academy) d. Matt Anastasi-Sam Lawyer (Cornwall) 6-3, 6-3.
Consolation final: Andy Hu-Dan Stevenson (Monroe-Woodbury) d. John Ackerman-Jay Gohel (Roosevelt) 6-3, 6-4.
Semifinals: Matt Anastasi-Sam Lawyer (Cornwall) d. John Ackerman-Jay Gohel (Roosevelt) 6-2, 6-0; Jacques Laine-Danny Parris (Newburgh Free Academy) d. Andy Hu-Dan Stevenson (Monroe-Woodbury) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.