THE DAY IN SPORTS: FULGENTIS ADVANCES IN QUALIFYING FOR U.S. OPEN.Byline: Daily News Westlake's Ross Fulgentis, a top-five performer as a redshirt freshman for UCLA's No. 16-ranked golf team, advanced to the sectional round of U.S. Open The term U.S. Open is applied to "open" United States national championships in a particular sport, in which anybody, amateur or professional, American or non-American may compete. These include:
Fulgentis was one of seven survivors - four of them area players - in a 71-player competition won by Camarillo's John Fielder, who shot 72. Braemar Country Club pro Paul Holtby of Moorpark and amateur Richard Jimenez of West Hills were other area qualifiers, both shooting 74 on the 6,900-yard course to advance to June 8 sectional qualifying at Lake Merced Lake Merced is a freshwater lake in the southwest corner of San Francisco, California. It is surrounded by three golf courses (the private Olympic Club and San Francisco Golf Club, and the public Harding Park Golf Club), as well as residential areas, Lowell High School, San CC in Daly City Daly City, city (1990 pop. 92,311), San Mateo co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco; inc. 1911. Daly City is primarily residential, its population having grown significantly since the 1970s. . Fulgentis, who helped Westlake High win a state title two years ago, was one of two members of that state championship team who competed at La Purisima, and the Warriors nearly came away with two qualifiers. Westlake junior J.T. Kohut missed a playoff for the final berth by one turn of the ball in a finish that was equal parts astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, and agonizing. After losing three strokes to par in the first six holes, Kohut played even par the rest of the day, only to drive his tee shot on the 18th hole into a fairway bunker. He then hit that partially buried ball 150 yards 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. but left his birdie bid on the lip of the cup to finish one shot shy at 75. It was the second time in three years Kohut came within a stroke of surviving a local qualifier, but the even-keeled Westlake junior took it in stride Adv. 1. in stride - without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" in good spirits . ``We were driving home and I was ready to cry,'' said his father, George Kohut. ``And J.T. is just doing his homework.'' Scholarship winners: Tanya McLaughlin and Nyoke McKeith of Valley College have earned NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I basketball scholarships. McLaughlin is headed for Lamar University in Texas and McKeith to Southwestern Louisiana. McLaughlin, a two-year All-Western State Conference forward who prepped at Canyon High, averaged 16.5 points and seven rebounds in her sophomore season at Valley. McKeith, from Taft High, averaged five steals this past season for the third-best steal average in the state. Highland romps: Melissa Wintermute totaled three hits and seven RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in and improved to 4-0 as a pitcher as Highland rolled past host Antelope Valley 19-0 in a Golden League softball game halted after three innings. Wintermute and katy Gonzales both homered for the Bulldogs (21-5, 7-2) and Wintermute added a double as Highland totaled nine hits in dropping the Antelopes to 0-9 in league play. Blumfield tops West Valley: Two-sport standout Cara Blumfield of 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:
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