Okemos’ Li, Patil into Thursday’s Michigan Girls Junior AM Semifinals

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – The city of Okemos could have two local winners when it’s all said and done at the 46th Michigan Girls Junior State Amateur.

Wednesday, both rising Okemos senior Alena Li and rising eighth-grader Saisha Patil won quarterfinal match play rounds to move into Thursday’s semifinal rounds in their respective divisions.

Li, also a match play semifinalist a year ago, is into the Final Four in the ‘Overall Division”.

Patil, who’s 15-years-old, is the semifinalist in the “15-and-under Division”.

Li bounced rising Grand Ledge senior Isabel Kelly in Wednesday morning’s Round of 16 with a 6-and-5 winning score.

She then went on to play just 10 holes in the quarterfinal round, in which she birdied six of the holes, to dispatch of Petoskey’s Rachel Fay with a dominant 10-and-8 final score.

Li will take on stroke play runner-up, Traverse City’s Grace Slocum in Thursday’s semifinal at 8:10 a.m.

Patil, which won 5-and-4 in the quarterfinals, will play Grand Blanc’s Madilyn Sheerin Thursday morning with a tee time yet to be announced.

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