DAY IN SPORTS: GIRLS' GOLF IMPROVES TO 21-0 AT SAUGUS.Byline: Daily News Visiting Saugus knocked defending City Section champion Granada Hills from the perfect-record ranks Thursday in an intersectional battle of undefeated teams, but Granada Hills coach Steve Thompson Steve Thompson or Steven Thompson may be:
``I'm very pleased with what we did,'' he said after third-ranked Saugus (21-0) dropped No. 7 Granada Hills to 8-1 with a 261-273 victory in the nine-hole match at par-37 Knollwood Country Club in Granada Hills. ``Our girls were a little disappointed we lost, but they understand what we're trying to do, and I think we did a really good job today,'' Thompson said. Thompson, who hopes playing tougher teams during the season will help his Valley 1 League leaders in their City title defense next month, got another strong effort from sophomore Alyson Golditch (45) and junior Lucy Davies (47), but Saugus prevailed with better front-end scoring and depth. Saugus sophomore Melanie De Leon, the Foothill League scoring leader through the first two league tournaments, was medalist at 40. Stephanie Aston, another sophomore, added a 51 for Saugus in the nine-hole match, which was played under the Southern Section's score-five system rather than the score-four City system. In other girls' golf: --Notre Dame 229, Chaminade 249: All five scoring players for No. 4 Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame equaled or bettered personal bests as the Knights of Sherman Oaks (7-0, 7-0) held off No. 9 Chaminade of West Hills (5-3, 5-2) at par-37 Woodley Lakes GC to take a two-game lead in the Mission League race. Notre Dame's Mayumi Kobayashi and Erinn Roundtree equaled their personal best of 39 to share medalist honors, and Ali Simpson (46), Laura Lee (50) and Monica Molloy (55) completed a school-record total. Nicole Mayo shot a team-best 40 for Chaminade. ``This is the most impressive effort I've ever been associated with, no matter what the sport,'' said Notre Dame coach Rob DiMuro, who also coached the Notre Dame boys' basketball team to the state tournament and coached Notre Dame girls' basketball to back-to-back appearances in the Southern Section semifinals. ``For all five to play that well with first place on the line is particularly satisfying.'' Notre Dame, which never has won a Mission League title in girls' golf, can clinch Clinch, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed by the junction of two forks in SW Va., and flowing generally SW across E Tenn. to the Tennessee River at Kingston. no worse than a title tie by winning one of its final three league matches. In girls' tennis: --Valencia 17, Burroughs 1: Ashley Herrera, Sayaka Inagawa, Shelli Williams and Samantha Milner combined to give Valencia a sweep of singles as the Foothill League-leading Vikings (10-2, 6-0) won at home to drop Burroughs of Burbank to 2-10, 0-6. --Hart 15, Saugus 3: Yasaman Sakhakorn's 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 sweep at No. 1 singles provided the only points for Saugus (2-9, 1-5) as Hart of Newhall (9-2, 5-1) won at home to stay within a match of Foothill League-leading Valencia. In girls' volleyball: --Harvard-Westlake d. Chaminade 3-0: Alex Dunphy had seven kills and 17 assists for Harvard-Westlake of Studio City in the 15-2, 15-3, 15-0 victory at home. The top-ranked Wolverines improved to 12-2, 4-0. --Granada Hills d. 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:
In college tennis: --Small College Championship: Cal Lutheran freshman Amir Marandy defeated Evan Tindell of MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6-1, 6-1 to advance to the semifinals of the ITA ITA abbr. initial teaching alphabet ITA initial teaching alphabet: a partly phonetic alphabet used to teach reading ITA n abbr (BRIT) (= initial teaching alphabet) → National Small College Championships at Corpus Christi, Texas Corpus Christi is a coastal city and the county seat of Nueces CountyGR6 in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the region known as South Texas. . Marandy, from Woodland Hills, qualified for the ITA championship by winning the Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. West Regional at Claremont. The Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, in Christianity Corpus Christi [Lat.,=body of Christ], feast of the Western Church, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (or on the following Sunday). event produces national champions in singles and doubles in four divisions (NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association II an III, NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes and junior college), and all winners qualify for the Oct. 20 Super Bowl of Small College Tennis. PRIME-TIME PLAYERS GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL --Claudia Pizano (Birmingham) 39 assists --Courtney Wade (Westlake) 25 assists --Alex Dunphy (Harvard-Westlake) 17 assists, 7 kills --Haelynne Barron (Notre Dame) 10 kills, 14 digs --Breezy Ward (La Reina La Reina (Spanish: "The queen") is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It consistently ranks in the top five communes with the best quality of life in the Metropolitan Region. ) 17 service points GIRLS' GOLF --Catherine Pease pease n. pl. pease or peas·en Archaic A pea. [Middle English; see pea. (La Reina) 2-over-par 36 --Alana Maiello (La Reina) 2-over-par 36 --Mayumi Kobayashi (Notre Dame) 2-over-par 39 --Erinn Roundtreei (Notre Dame) 2-over-par 39 --Melanie De Leon (Saugus) 3-over-par 40 CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Saugus girls' golfer Melanie De Leon shot a 3-over 40 on Thursday to help the Centurions defeat Granada Hills. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer Box: PRIME TIME PLAYERS (see text) |
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