GIRLS' GOLF DAILY NEWS ALL-AREA TEAM AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON.Byline: Compiled by Dave Shelburne Staff Writer PLAYER OF THE YEAR JEE HEE HEE Higher Education Establishments HWANG Birmingham, Senior Few golfers have wrung wrung v. Past tense and past participle of wring. wrung Verb the past of wring wrung wring so much out of the game so quickly as this four-year starter for the Valley 2 League-champion Patriots. Hwang, who had not played golf before taking it up as a freshman, was the No. 2 player on a City Section championship team as a sophomore and won City individual titles as a junior and senior. ``She just got better and better,'' said outgoing Birmingham coach Chick Epstein, who will retire next month after nearly 40 years of coaching and counts Hwang among the top three girls he has coached - along with her sister Min Hee and 1993 CIF/SCGA title contender Monica Chant. ``She's dedicated, and she was willing to practice and practice and practice,'' Epstein said of Jee Hee, who teamed with Min Hee - MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. for state community college champion Mt. San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. this year - to win the inaugural City Section girls' team title in 2000. This year, Jee Hee was undefeated in the regular season before successfully defending her City individual title - shooting 77 at Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). GC for a second consecutive one-stroke victory. ``To win two years in a row with pressure like that is fantastic,'' Epstein said. But he wasn't surprised, given Jee Hee's penchant for practice. ``When she started,'' he said, ``she was shooting in the 90s, and then the 80s and 70s. This year, she averaged 4.8 over par in nine-hole matches. She's a real solid player who knows how to correct her faults, and she keeps improving and improving.'' SOO JI CHO CHO Carbohydrate (chemical formla Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen) CHO Chinese Hamster Ovary CHO Chemical Hygiene Officer CHO Chief Health Officer (corporate title) Glendale, Sophomore Her school had no girls' team, so Cho played on the boys' team, then qualified as an individual for the girls' Southern Section final, shooting 75 there and again in the CIF/WSCGA Championship. Glendale coach Bob Francis For the Australian radio presenter, see Bob Francis (radio) Robert "Bob" Francis (born December 5, 1958 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada) was an ice hockey head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes from June 1999 to February 2004. said she will play No. 1 on the boys' team next season. MELANIE DE LEON Saugus, Sophomore One of the area's most improved players In some sports, a Most Improved Player award is given to players who have improved the most over the year.
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Camarillo, Senior One of only two seniors on a team that finished fourth in the Southern Section and fifth in the CIF/WSCGA Championship, Silvertrust led Ventura County in scoring this season, earned a golf scholarship to Kentucky and helped the top-ranked Scorpions finish the regular season 17-0. MAYUMI KOBAYASHI 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 , Junior A three-time Southern Section finalist who reached the CIF/WSCGA Championship as a freshman, Mission League individual champion Kobayashi led Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks to its first league team title, then shot 74 to tie for seventh at the section final to earn her second CIF/WSCGA berth. ALYSON GOLDITCH Granada Hills, Sophomore The sister of 1990s City Section stars Scott Golditch (who led Chatsworth to a City team title) and Todd Golditch (twice runner-up to three-time City champion Darren Angel of Granada Hills), Alyson lost only once in the regular season and led the Highlanders to their second City championship. MARIA GAMBOA Agoura, Junior No player was hotter in the Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. tournament than Gamboa, who earned MVP honors in a league traditionally the toughest in the area. She went on to shoot 78 in the Southern Section final, where she tied for 17th to qualify for the CIF/WSCGA Championship. SECOND TEAM Vanessa Brockett: Campbell Hall Campbell Hall can refer to:
Lucy Davies: Granada Hills junior shot 79 to place third in the City Section final in her first year of golf. Nicole Mayo: Chaminade of West Hills senior was a Southern Section finalist for the Mission League runner-up Eagles. Gloria Park: Chatsworth freshman led City Section runner-up Chancellors to CIF/WSCGA tournament. Catherine Pease pease n. pl. pease or peas·en Archaic A pea. [Middle English; see pea. : 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. of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. senior was Frontier League The Frontier League, based in Troy, Illinois, is a professional, independent baseball organization located in the Midwestern United States and Western Pennsylvania. It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either. co-MVP and co-medalist at Northern Division qualifier. Katrina Sutton: Camarillo junior was the co-medalist in Pacific View League final and the team medalist at 79 in the Southern Section final. HONORABLE MENTION Stephanie Aston (Saugus), Foothill League champ; Lotta Andonian (Rio Mesa of Oxnard), Southern Section finalist; Laura Bernstein (Calabasas), Southern Section finalist; Rishika Das (Quartz Hill), Golden League champ; Jasmine jasmine (jăs`mĭn, jăz–) or jessamine (jĕs`əmĭn), any plant of the genus Jasminum of the family Oleaceae (olive family). Koehler (Agoura), season scoring leader for Marmonte League champs; Hillary Mow (Harvard-Westlake of Studio City), Southern Section finalist; Alana Niello niello (nēĕl`ō) [Ital. from Latin nigellus=blackish], black metallic alloy of sulfur, copper, silver, and usually lead, used as an inlay on engraved metal. (La Reina of Thousand Oaks), Frontier League co-MVP; Chelsea Orozco (Highland of Palmdale), leading scorer for Golden League champs); Marie Roscigno (Valencia), Southern Section finalist; Jennifer Haws (Thousand Oaks), Southern Section finalist. COACH OF THE YEAR BILL DOWDEN Camarillo A good run got even better this year for Dowden, whose teams have won the past three Pacific View League titles in boys' and girls' golf, and whose son Kyle was Daily News co-Player of the Year last spring in boys' golf. His latest girls' team, which had just two seniors, earned a second consecutive trip to the Southern Section final, placing fourth there to earn the school's first CIF/WSCGA berth, where it also finished fourth. A LOOK AHEAD --Teams to watch: Granada Hills, again. The two-time City Section champion Highlanders lose one player from a team that improved by 95 shots in its successful City title defense. Camarillo, Agoura and Saugus, league champions ranked in the top three of the Daily News poll all season, also will return most of their top players. --Players to watch: Amanda Goodman was one of Agoura's best players as a freshman this year, finishing fourth in the Marmonte League tournament. She could be among the area's best next season, when teammate Maria Gamboa, Camarillo's Katrina Sutton and Gem Torres, Melanie De Leon and Stephanie Aston of Saugus, Rishika Das (Quartz Hill), Alyson Golditch (Granada Hills) and Mayumi Kobayashi (Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks) also return as league MVPs or league champions. Also back will be Vanessa Brockett, who won this year's Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Women's championship as a sophomore at Campbell Hall of North Hollywood, where she played boys' golf because there was no girls' team. --Projected player of the year: Soo Ji Cho played in only two girls' events this year as a Glendale sophomore because her school had no girls' team. But she finished in the top 10 of both - shooting 75 at the Southern Section final and again in the CIF/WSCGA Championship, coming within a lipped-out 17th-hole birdie putt of gaining a playoff for the CIF/WSCGA title. LEAGUE CHAMPIONS Foothill: Saugus Frontier: La Reina Golden: Highland Marmonte: Agoura Mission: Notre Dame Pacific: Arcadia Pacific View: Camarillo Valley 1: Granada Hills Valley 2: Birmingham FINAL TOP 10 1. Camarillo 2. Agoura 3. Saugus 4. Granada Hills 5. Notre Dame 6. La Reina 7. Calabasas 8. Chaminade 9. Valencia 10. Chatsworth CAPTION(S): 8 photos, 2 boxes Photo: (1 -- color) JEE HEE HWANG (2 -- color) SOO JI CHO (3 -- color) MELANIE DE LEON (4 -- color) ALANNA SILVERTRUST (1 -- color) MAYUMI KOBAYASHI (6 -- color) ALYSON GOLDITCH (7 -- color) MARIA GAMBOA (8 -- color) BILL DOWDEN Box: (1) League Champions (see text) (2) Final Top 10 (see text) |
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