BOYS' GOLF: GRANADA HILLS WILL HAVE TO WORK.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff WriterDefending City Section boys' golf champion Granada Hills, which needed to survive a two-team tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie to win last year's final, might wind up looking back at that as the good old days of comfortable advancement by the time this week's 36-hole section championship concludes Wednesday. The Highlanders' bid for a third consecutive title and another berth in the season-ending CIF/SCGA championship is being seriously challenged by three teams this year. El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Ryan Marsh shot 75 and Marshall Abraham 76 for El Camino Real, bidding for its first CIF/SCGA berth in 10 years. Taylon Tom shot 77 to lead fast-improving Westchester, which has advanced from 2-A League tournament champion last year to undefeated 4-A league champion this year and is pushing the best teams in the 7-A League for the section title. Palisades, which has won a section-best 13 City titles, received a 75 from Steve Chung and a 78 from Ben Seelig in the opening round. ``We've got our work cut out for us,'' said Granada Hills coach Joe White, the dean of the section's golf coaches, who watched his Highlanders get opening 78s from Andrew Ok and Edgar Gonzales. ``I knew El Camino Real was going to be good, and Palisades is always tough, but I didn't know Westchester was this good. It's going to be something on Wednesday.'' It could be history-making if Westchester continues the progress it has shown under second-year coach Tay Aminifu and comes away with its first section title in golf. ``We did what we set out to do,'' Aminifu said of his team's strong first-round showing, which included an 80 by senior captain Brandon Brooks Brandon Brooks (17 November 1973, Nashville, Tennessee, USA) is an American sitcom actor. He has starred in a number of Peter Engel productions such as USA High and the role of the stereotypical surfer Murray Updyke in Malibu CA. He is of part English, Irish and part Cherokee descent. and 81s from junior Garet Takiguchi and freshman Joey Joey after Joseph Grimaldi, famous 19th-century clown. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 45] See : Clowns Enseki, the season scoring leader for the Comets Non-periodic comets are seen only once. They are usually on near-parabolic orbits that will not return to the vicinity of the Sun for thousands of years, if ever. Periodic comets usually have elongated elliptical orbits, and usually return to the vicinity of the Sun after a number (10-0). ``We wanted to show Westchester has a decent golf team,'' Aminifu said. ``We've got some good young players, and we're going to be a force to be reckoned with in City golf.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Granada Hills' Andrew Ok shot an opening-round 78 at the City Section Championships at Griffith Park's Wilson Golf Course on Monday. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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