For the second time in three years, Patrick Sullivan of Grosse Pointe is the Michigan Junior State Amateur champion.

Sullivan won the Junior State Am Thursday at Plum Hollow Country Club in Southfield by beating Nick Krueger of Spring Lake 1 up in the 19-hole championship match.

"This is awesome," said Sullivan, who will play college golf at Michigan next season. "I've always dreamed of this. I remember my first Junior Am. I shot a pair of 80s and obviously didn't make match play. I remember thinking the scores were so insane and how I had a long way to go.

"Last year I won the stroke play, but to come back this year and close it out in match play and win the championship is just awesome."

Sullivan, last year's GAM Junior Player of the Year, entered match play seeded seventh and never played past the 16th hole until the championship.

He knocked off Essex's Austin Friesen 4 and 2 in the first round of match play, beat McGregor's Luc Warnock 2 up in the second round and recorded 3 and 2 wins over DeWitt's Charles DeLong and Rockford's Kevin Healy in the quarterfinals and semifinals.

DeLong was the No. 2 seed.

In the championship match, a birdie at No. 15 gave Krueger a 1-up lead with three holes to play but Sullivan forced extra holes with an eagle at the par-5 17th.

"It was nerve-wracking, and it was different playing so many rounds of golf, and playing matches," said Krueger, a senior-to-be at Spring Lake High School who will play at Grand Valley State University in 2019-20.

"It is all about endurance. You play that well and that long, you really want to close it out, but Patrick played great. That was a great eagle at 17, and then he two-putted for par on 18 from 30 feet, and that was really good, too."

Krueger reached the championship match by beating Lake Orion's Drew Coble 1 up in the semis.

That came after he eliminated Waterford's Joshua Kuhn in 19 holes during the opening round, Clarkston's Patrick Deardorff 5 and 4 in the second round and Northville's Andrew Lack 1 up in the quarterfinals.