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Karishma Thiagaraj birdied the second playoff hole to defeat Elyse Smidinger for the 35th annual Junior Girls championship of the Maryland State Golf Association at Rolling Road Golf Club in Catonsville. Playing in 90-degree heat for a second straight day, Thiagaraj, 16, the 2008 champion from Rockville, and Smidinger, 16, the defending champion from Crofton, had matching rounds of 78-80--158 to force extra holes. Thiagaraj chipped to five feet and sank the putt to end it on the 381-yard second hole. The two had parred the first. The course was played at 5,644 yards to a par of 37-37--74. An out-going 41 left Smidinger, a qualifier for next month's U.S. Junior Girls championship, two shots behind and she was still there when both players bogeyed the 12th and 13th holes. From there, though, she parred in and when her opponent came away with bogeys at the 15th and 17th holes they were tied. Putting woes led to Thiagaraj losing her lead, including a three-putt at the 17th. Kaitlyn Rohrback,18, the 2006 champion from Crofton, shot 2-over-par 76 and finished 83-76--159, missing the playoff by a stroke. The recent Archbishop Spalding graduate who will be going to the University of Tennessee in the fall, had four birdies, six bogeys, and it was a bogey at the 18th that kept her from making it a three-way tie at the top. Clare Connolly, 17, from Chevy Chase, a former Middle Atlantic Junior Girls titlist, had the tournament's low round, a 75, that included three birdies, four bogeys. She finished at 162. The two finished as winner and runnerup in the 16- 18 division. Liz Silbernagel, from Fallston, who was one shot out of the lead after the first round, slipped back to an 86 and ended on 165 to be third. Bryana Nguyen, who just turned 14, won her second age-group title in a row. The Columbia resident, who plays from Fairway Hills, won the 13-under title a year ago, and this time shot 84-80--164, and won the 14-15 group by 10 strokes. Micaa' Thomas, from Enterprise Golf Course in Prince George's County, won the 13-under title with 94-94--188. -Reported by John Stewart from Rolling Road Golf Club