Seaside's Nick Moore advances to match play at California State Amateur golf championship

It's off to match play for Seaside resident Nick Moore.

Moore, who picked up golf at the age of 23 after a four-year stint playing baseball in college, shot a 3-over 75 on the par-72 Dunes Course on Tuesday to advance to the match play portion of this week's California State Amateur at Monterey Peninsula Country Club.

Winner of the 2012 Northern California Golf Association Public Links championship, Moore finished the 36-hole stroke play qualifying portion of the championship tied for 18th at 3-over 147. He'll open today's first round of match play on the Dunes Course against 2012 NCGA Player of the Year Ben Geyer at 8:33 a.m.

While Moore marched on, locals Jerry Ledzinski of Carmel and Casey Boyns of Pacific Grove both came in on the cut line at 6-over 150 after rounds of 80 and 77 on the Dunes, respectively. They'd find themselves in a seven-man playoff for the final 32nd spot, where Atherton's Jonathan Garrick prevailed.

Ledzinksi had opened with a 70 on the par-72 Shore Course, while Boyns, a two-time winner of the championship, had opened with a 73 on the Shore.

Corey Pereira of Cameron Park and Xander Schauffele of San Diego shared medalist honors at 2-under 142. Pereira fired a second round 70 on the Dunes while Schauffele shot 74 on the Dunes.

Carmel's Robert Salomon came up two strokes shy of the cut despite carding a 73 on the Dunes.

JT Harper of Pebble Beach, who plays at Seton Hall, shot a 79 on the Shore to finish at 154. Stevenson

senior Seb Crampton and recent Stevenson grad Michael Decker, who's headed to Vanderbilt, shot 78 on the Shore and 80 on the Dunes, respectively, to finish at 155. Monterey's Joe Huston, who opened with an 83 on the Dunes, bounced back with a 72 on the Shore but also came in at 155.

U.S. WAPL: CSU Monterey Bay sophomore Arinda Bhanaraksa shot a 79 in Tuesday's second round of this week's U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship at par-72 Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club in Oklahoma, missing the cut. Bhanaraksa, who lives in Chino, finished stroke play at 11-over 155 (T-77) after an opening round 76.

Bhanraksa was a stroke off the cut line (153) for match play with only two holes to go, but she'd bogey the 17th.

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