GOLF NOTEBOOK: SAUGUS PRODUCT SIZZLES FOR NEVADA.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer She was the best girls' golfer in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. the past two seasons, and Melanie De Leon hasn't much slowed the pace since stepping up to the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college ranks. The 2003 Daily News Girls' Player of the Year has been team medalist or co-medalist in three of four tournaments played by the University of Nevada University of Nevada could refer to either of the universities in the Nevada System of Higher Education:
De Leon, who won a California state junior title in 2004 and qualified for the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links The U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship, often referred to as the Public Links or the Publinx, is a women's amateur golf tournament, one of 10 individual amateur championships organized by the USGA. The USGA typically calls the event the U.S. championship this year, is averaging 75.8 as a freshman and posted a Nevada season-best 2-under-par 70 last week when she was seventh at the 108-player Collegiate Invitational. The four-year Saugus letterwinner shot 74-70-76 to finish 4-over 220 at the 6,319-yard, par-72 New Mexico State University New Mexico State University, at Las Cruces; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1889 as a college. It became New Mexico State Univ. of Engineering, Agriculture, and Science in 1958 and adopted its present name in 1960. Golf Course, leading the Wolf Pack wolf pack n. A group of submarines that attack a single vessel or a convoy. Noun 1. wolf pack - a group of submarines operating together in attacking enemy convoys to 12th-place in the 21-team tournament. De Leon led Saugus to back-to-back Foothill League titles and a 66-match winning streak spanning parts of the 2003 and 2004 seasons. In her junior year, she became the first Santa Clarita Valley golfer to qualify for the state high school girls' championship. She is leading a resurgence at Nevada that has produced top-10 finishes for the Wolf Pack in three of their first four tournaments - 10th in the season-opening Oregon State Invitational, second in their Wolf Pack Invitational, and a tie for eighth in the Heather Farr/Colorado Memorial. Nevada finished second in the Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (commonly referred to as the WAC, pronounced "wack") was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly and 18th in the NCAA Regionals in the 2002-03 season, but it fell to fourth in the 2003-04 WAC WAC (Women's Army Corps), U.S. army organization created (1942) during World War II to enlist women as auxiliaries for noncombatant duty in the U.S. army. Before 1943 it was known as the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby. championship and did not advance as a team to postseason play. De Leon, 18, one of three freshman starters on a Nevada roster that doesn't have a senior, has been the Wolf Pack's low scorer in four of 12 rounds this season. --Brother act: Lawrence Jarvey, who nearly won the Western State Conference scoring title in his redshirt sophomore season at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. in 2003, teamed up with younger brother Erik last week to qualify for the Southern California Golf Association Four-Ball Championship. Erik Jarvey, now starting as a freshman for Cal State Northridge, and Lawrence, who failed in a bid to make the CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge team as a walk-on this season after being out of competitive golf for a year, combined to shoot 8-under 64 in their SCGA SCGA Southern California Golf Association SCGA Software Carrier Group Alarm Four-Ball qualifier at Crystalaire Country Club in Llano lla·no n. pl. lla·nos A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America. [Spanish, plain, from Latin pl . The younger Jarvey, a June graduate of Highland High in Palmdale - both brothers were Southern Section qualifiers for the Falcons - has been hot lately. He placed sixth at the SCGA Amateur championship in July, with Lawrence as caddie, then won the CSUN preseason tournament to start the year as the Matadors' No. 1 player, then opened his collegiate career with a team-medalist 68 at the Northwest Collegiate Classic. Team Jarvey finished with nine birdies against a single bogey at Crystalaire in a 33-31 effort, one shot better than its closest challengers. The top 12 teams in the 36-team qualifier claimed berths in the Dec. 14-15 SCGA Four Ball Championship at El Niguel Country Club in Laguna Niguel. Riley Marshall, who will play as a sophomore for College of the Canyons next year, teamed with Thad Koontz to shoot 66 at Crystalaire, tying for fourth place and winning a berth in the final. --Down to the wire: Valencia, ranked No. 1 in high school girls' golf by the Daily News, and No. 3-ranked Hart went into Monday's final Foothill League tournament of the season tied for the league lead. Valencia (27-2) and Hart (26-5) shared first place with 22 points, six ahead of third-place Saugus, going into the nine-hole league finale at Woodley Lakes Golf Course in Lake Balboa. The top three Foothill teams qualify for the Nov. 7 Southern Section prelims at River Ridge Golf Course in Oxnard. The top 18 individual finishers qualify for the league's 18-hole individual postseason qualifying tournament. Four Foothill golfers advance to the Nov. 4 Southern Section individual final at Diamond Bar Golf Course in Diamond Bar. Valencia's Stevy Loy led the league in scoring at 34.0 heading into Monday's event. Teammate Michelle Mannix and Hart's Tessa Harp shared second at 34.7. Dave Shelburne, (818) 713-3609 dave.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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