HANOVER – The match of the day on a day of big matches at the 34th Tommy Keane Invitational might have been Saturday afternoon's Championship Flight quarterfinal pitting 15th-seeded Dean Cashman and Mike Pollard against Peter and Doug Williamson, the father-son team that was seeded 10th.
The two teams combined for just one bogey in a well-played match that wasn’t decided until Cashman’s 115-yard approach on the 19th hole left him a 6-foot birdie putt. Cashman calmly drained the putt to put away the defending champions and send his team into a Sunday morning semifinal against Jake Obar and Bill Vielleux.
Obar and Vielluex, seeded third, advanced to the quarters with a 7&5 victory over No. 14 Dave Aznavorian and Rick Watson.
In the other half of the bracket, Shane MacDonald used a red-hot putter to earn family bragging as he and Andy Hydorn posted a 5&4 victory over son Nick MacDonald and Patrick Pelletier. Shane MacDonald and Hydorn were seeded ninth while top-seeded Nick MacDonald and Pelletier were coming off a 6&5 win in their morning match.
Hydorn and Nick MacDonald, co-champions of the TKI in 2002, will now face the No. 5 pairing of Josh Hilderbrand and Josh Wilson, which surprised six-time champions Mike and Scott Peters, 3&2, in an afternoon match.
The winners of Sunday’s morning matches will square off in the afternoon for the championship.
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