Fox Chapel sophomore Nadia Luttner stood on the 17th tee staring at a two-shot deficit and looking up at one of the WPIAL's most accomplished golfers in recent history, Waynesburg senior Rachel Rohanna, who held the lead.

"I just said, 'I can only control what I do,' " Luttner recalled of that moment. "I just wanted to make a couple shots and see what would happen."

What happened at the end of yesterday's WPIAL girls' individual golf championship at Valley Brook Country Club was that Luttner did make a few shots -- and Rohanna played one of the worst holes of her high school career.

And when it all ended, there Luttner stood as champion, carding a 3-over 75 while Rohanna, an Ohio State recruit and defending WPIAL champion, had to settle for a second-place tie at 78 along with Serra's Sarah Heimlich. Luttner, Rohanna and Heimlich were the final threesome and offered heavy drama throughout the day, but it heightened exponentially on the final two holes.

Rohanna was 2 over after 16, with Luttner at 4 over as both hit irons off the 520-yard par 5 with a stream running through the heart of the fairway about 250 yards out. While Luttner flushed her iron, perfectly laying up, Rohanna pulled hers a bit left and onto the cart path about 120 yards from the stream.

"My first idea was just walking up and hitting it off the cart path," she said. "I thought it was on dirt, but there were some rocks, too."

So she elected to take the free drop, which nestled a bit down in the rough.

"I figured after the drop, I still only had a 7-iron out of the rough over the water, no big deal," Rohanna said. "I hit it and it never felt right. And then ..."

It landed in the water, which, coupled with a three putt once she reached the green gave her an 8 on the hole and turned a two-shot lead into a one-shot deficit with one hole left.

Luttner's celebration when Rohanna's ball went into the water was a bit tempered.

"I really felt bad," Luttner said of seeing Rohanna, a friend of hers, hit it into the water. "I wasn't hoping for a mistake from her. I truly didn't want her to mess up or anything like that."

But Rohanna did, and Luttner capitalized. Luttner then closed things vehemently with a birdie on the 319-yard, par-4 18th as she hit her second shot -- a wedge from 72 yards -- to about 6 feet before dropping the putt for her 75 and the title.

It served as a bit of revenge for Luttner, who pulled even with Rohanna after 15 holes in last year's championship at Allegheny Country Club, only to self-destruct down the stretch and finish six shots back. On top of that, Luttner was routinely outdriven by Rohanna by a wide margin yesterday.

"She has like 20 yards on me," Luttner said. "It used to bother me a little bit, but I am fine with it now. It is whoever gets it closer and gets it in the hole first. That is what is really important."

And that is what, ultimately, won Luttner a WPIAL title yesterday.