SOUTHERN SECTION GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP: THREE ADVANCE TO CIF FINAL.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer DESERT HOT SPRINGS - Nikki Imaromna, Emma Stachowicz and Jennifer Parkes kept area girls' high school golf in the present for the remainder of the season Thursday, and Grace Woo gave good reason to look to the future. Seniors Imaromna, from 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 of Sherman Oaks, Stachowicz of Harvard-Westlake of Studio City and Parkes of Hart of Newhall all placed in the top 22 at the Southern Section individual championship to qualify for the Nov. 27 CIF/WSCGA championship at SCGA SCGA Southern California Golf Association SCGA Software Carrier Group Alarm Members Club in Murrieta. Woo, this year's Foothill League champion as a Burbank freshman, came close to joining them, losing in a five-hole playoff for the final berth in that season-ending meeting of the Southern, Central, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and 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. City sections of the California Interscholastic Federation The California Interscholastic Federation (abbreviated CIF) is the governing body for high school sports in the state of California. It mirrors similar governing bodies in other states; however, it differs from others in that it covers most high schools in the state of . That championship, sponsored by the Women's Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Golf Association, is the closest Southern California girls get to a state high school golf championship. For more than an hour after Imaromna (76), Stachowicz (77) and Parkes (78) secured their CIF/WSCGA berths in regulation play at the 118-entry section final at par-71 Mission Lakes Country Club, Woo (79) battled on - locked in what started as a three-girl playoff for the final two CIF/WSCGA berths. Tiffany Chudy of Temecula Valley won out early with a birdie on the 448-yard, par-5 second playoff hole, while Woo and Erin Kate of Los Altos moved on with pars. Then the real drama, shot-making rallies and angst kicked in, as first Kate, then Woo, made remarkable downhill recovery shots from thick greenside green·side adj. Sports Situated beside a putting green: a greenside bunker. Adj. 1. rough on the third playoff holes to set up possible winning pars, only to both see their putts narrowly miss the cup on that 353-yard, par-4 hole. Woo really showed her staying power on the next hole, draining a seven- foot par-saving putt to keep the playoff alive after Kate had applied the pressure with a tap-in par on that 268-yard, uphill par-4 hole. Woo was in trouble again shortly after that recovery, as she hooked her second shot out of bounds on the fifth playoff hole - a 454-yard, uphill par-5. But she hit again to the middle of the fairway on that dogleg-right hole, then bounced an approach to within 12 feet of the flagstick flag·stick n. A removable pole with a flag marking the placement of each hole on the putting greens of a golf course. and made a delicate downhill putt for an improbable bogey to put the pressure back on Kate - who needed to make a putt almost that long to avoid another playoff hole. Kate proved up to the task, ending one of the more memorable section playoffs in years. |
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