SOUTH HADLEY — Standing in the clubhouse at Ledges Golf Club with a gold medal dangling around her neck, Isabel Brozena was overcome with happiness and relief. After finishing runner-up at last year’s state championship, and again at last week’s North/West/Central sectional final, the North Reading senior broke through Monday in runaway fashion. Brozena fired a sparkling 6-under-par 66 to win her second MIAA individual girls’ golf title by six shots.
Brozena also captured the 2022 crown at Eastward Ho! Country Club in Chatham. “I was motivated to win,” said Brozena. “I was so close last year.
I wanted it even more this year. I’m so happy because this was my last state championship and I was committed to winning this.” Advertisement Brozena was the only player to finish under par on the challenging 5,539-yard course, carding eight birdies and two bogeys to separate from Westwood’s Lillian Guleserian (72) and Sturgis West’s Mya Murphy (72), the two sectional winners last Tuesday.
Brozena, who will play at Xavier, was locked in from the opening tee shot. She began with a birdie on the par-5 18th and rattled off birdies on holes No. 2 and No.
4. The powerful hitter took control on the back nine with five more birdies, including a beautiful tee shot on the par-3 14th that landed feet away from the pin. But Brozena’s best work came with her putter, rolling in a clutch 25-foot par save on the 15th hole before draining birdie putts on 16 and 17.
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