UNITED STATES WIN JUNIOR RYDER CUP 14.5 TO 9.5

OLYMPIA FIELDS, Illinois (AP) - Casie Cathrea, Karen Chung and Esther Lee led the United States to its third straight Junior Ryder Cup victory, winning singles matches to finish undefeated in the 14 1/2-9 1/2 win over Europe.
Sixteen-year-old Cathrea, from Livermore, California, beat Emily Pedersen by two holes at Olympia Fields. Chung, 17, from Livingston, New Jersey, topped Germany's Quirine Eijkenboom 4 and 2, and Lee, 17, from Los Alamitos, California, edged past England's Curtis Cup star Bronte Law by one hole.
The three Americans were each 2 and 0 on Monday in foursomes and mixed four-balls.
Casey Danielson of Osceola, Wisconsin, and Alison Lee of Valencia, California, also won in singles, and Robby Shelton of Wilmer, Alabama, and Gavin Hall of Pittsford, New York scored full points for the U.S. boys.
Overall, the six U.S. girls were 5 and 1 in singles and 3-0 in foursomes, while the U.S. boys earned 2 1/2 points in six singles matches after scoring only a half-point in three foursomes. In the mixed fourballs, the Americans were 3-2.
The United States leads the series 4-3-1.
The 2014 Junior Ryder Cup match will be played at Blairgowrie Golf Club. 

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The United States have won the Junior Ryder Cup for the third time in succession with a five-point victory at Olympia Fields in Chicago.
The home side led by 7-5 going into the 12 singles matches and were soon closing in on the trophy after winning four of the first five matches and halving the other.
And although Germany's Dominic Foos, Spain's Covadonga Sanjuan and Austria's Matthias Schwab won the next three matches out, America's Alison Lee was completing a 6 and 5 victory over Sweden's Linnea Strom in match nine to seal the win.
Ireland's Gavin Moynihan did have the satisfaction of a 4 and 3 win over Jim Liu in the final match, but the home side were comfortable winners by 14.5 points to 9.5.
That was considerably closer than the last contest on US soil in 2008, when the home side won by an amazing 22-2 in Kentucky.
The biennial competition has helped launch the careers of the likes of Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia and Nicolas Colsaerts, who are all on the European team seeking to defend the Ryder Cup at Medinah, starting on Friday.
The United States now owns a 4-3-1 overall record in the Junior Ryder Cup, and has not lost since 2004 at Westfield Country Club in Westfield Center, Ohio. The matches were halved 6-6 in 2006 at The Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales.
US Captain Roger Warren was overwhelmed by the entire experience of serving as the United States Captain and came away impressed with the performance of both teams.
"We are really fortunate to have won, because these teams are so evenly matched and each have such a wealth of talent," said Warren, who was the 34th president of The PGA of America. 
"We wanted to compete and win but in the end it was all about friendships and goodwill between the teams that made this a truly special experience."
European Captain Stuart Wilson also enjoyed his experience as Captain and is looking forward to being Captain again in 2014 when the Junior Ryder Cup visits Blairgowrie Golf Club in his native Scotland.
"The players really enjoyed themselves this week and we battled all the way down to the final match," said Wilson. "It will be an honour to Captain the team again in 2014 when we go to Scotland and we will hope for a better result."
Both teams will play a "Friendship" Match" today at the Ryder Cup venue - Medinah Country Club, Illinois
The "Friendship" Match will feature a combined mixed four-ball, with six groupings of four players that includes one girl and one boy from both Europe and the United States. The teams will play a composite course of 10 total holes, blending both front-nine and back-nine holes.