There was a curious look of symmetry to Rebecca Skoler’s scorecards for two days of stroke play at Plymouth Country Club. But when the numbers were crunched, the sophomore-to-be at the University of Virginia had easily secured medalist honors in the 118th Massachusetts Women’s Amateur.

One day after establishing a women’s course record at Plymouth with seven birdies and a bogey for a sizzling 6-under 64, Skoler – who is from Needham and graduated from the Beaver Country Day School – recorded seven bogeys against a lone birdie to shoot 76.

At level-par 140, though, she finished three ahead of Tracy Martin of Vesper CC (73-70 – 143), while Megan Buck of Thorny Lea GC (71-74 – 145) was third.

Solid as the play was for those at the top of the leaderboard, these amateur competitions to crown state and national winners are unique in that your interest drifts downward to see who sneaks into the 32-player field for match play. As it usually does, it required a playoff, where Emma Abramson secured the 32nd final spot, beating Jacqueline Cingel and Tate Hadges in a playoff.

For her efforts, Abramson draws the opening match in the Round of 32 against Skoler. They will lead things off at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Defending champion Allison Paik (77-77 – 154) will take on Christine Mandile (74-80 – 154) in the second match.

It was a record-breaking start for Rebecca Skoler.

With 16 games, you’d expect some to present good flavor and you’ll have that in Game 3 where the reigning Massachusetts Senior Women’s Amateur champ, Pam Kuong (77-80) will take on 16-year-old Molly Smith (75-75), one of the rising junior players in the area.

Skoler is a two-time winner of the Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Championship, but there are others who will bring solid credentials into the Round of 32.

Angela Garvin, for instance, won this State Amateur title in 2019 and has three Girls’ Junior wins on her resume. A member of the team at the University of Maryland, Garvin shot 76-73 to finish fifth and will meet Annie Dai (79-79).

The 2018 winner of this State Amateur, Shannon Johnson, didn’t have her best stuff, but with 74-78 – 152 she earned a match against Alice Fan (76-80), a member of Bruce Chalas’ Boston University women’s team.

Buck made just one birdie in two days of stroke-play, but she made just six bogeys, which sometimes offer a better indicator to how one is playing. In the Round of 32, she will draw Jacqueline Gonzalez, who made one of the nicest comebacks, bouncing back from an 82 with a 76.

Paik, Johnson, and Garvin aren’t the only former winners of this State Amateur championship to advance. You just need to scroll down the archives a bit to find when Kuong (2008), Chelsea Curtis (2005), and Tracy Welch (1998, 2006) claimed their crowns.

Curtis (79-78) will go up against another member of The Country Club, Catie Schernecker (75-75), while Welch (75-77) and Sue Curtin (80-76) will be a game between two longtime standouts who each recently earned spots into the upcoming U.S. Women’s Amateur.