College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita claimed the California Community College Athletic Association Women’s Championship for the third time, winning by 18 strokes over College of the Desert in Palm Desert at Morro Bay Golf Course https://golfmorrobay.com in Morro Bay, Calif.
Eunsoo Jeon of Fullerton College claimed the individual title by one shot over Haruka Koda of Canyons.
The Cougars, who claimed their sixth victory of the season including the Southern California Regional Championship a week earlier, also won the state title in 2001 and 2007.
“When the season started, I knew we had a very talented team,” Canyons head coach Gary Peterson said. “Things can go wrong and goals aren’t achieved, but they really stuck to the path. We played well all year and peaked at the right time. I’m extremely proud.
“Doing what we did all year, making sure we work hard but we also have a lot of fun. After the first round we had a casual buffet and afterward all the other teams went to the hotel, but we went and putted for 45 minutes to an hour to work on our putting strokes. There wasn’t one bit of grumbling within the crew. They all said, ‘OK, let’s do it.’”
Canyons posted a score of 309-306—615, 45-over-par, while Desert finished at 325-308—633, followed by Sierra College of in Rocklin at 330-324—654, Santa Barbara City College at 339-316—655.
Reedley College was sixth at 333-331—664, followed by Saddleback College in Mission Viejo at 331-339—670, Modesto Junior College at 332-344—670 and Fresno City College at 362-347—709.
Jeon finished first at 69-73—142, 2-under, followed by Koda at 72-71—143, Tammy Lim of Fresno City at 76-70—146, Katie Stribling of Irvine Valley College at 74-74—148, and Zoe Walker of Desert at 76-73—149.
Alexa Bleth of Santa Barbara was sixth at 79-74—153, followed by Jessie Lin of Canyons at 75-79—154, while JoJo Roecker of Canyons shot 77-77—154 to tie for eighth with Georgia Shevitt of Moorpark College, who finished at 75-79—154, and Dagmar Urbankova of Desert was 10th at 79-76—155.
Serena DiMauro led Reedley in 11th at 81-74—155, Arianna Custodio of Sacramento City College was 12th at 71-86—157, Brittney Do of Saddleback was 13th at 79-79—158, and Sierra teammates Gurman Kaur (78-80) and Kelsey Blaylock (81-77—158) finished in a tie for 15th.
Allie Crawley of Bakersfield College was 16th at 78-82—160, Shizuka Okochi of Citrus College in Glendora was 22nd at 79-87—166, Natalie Cowan of Modesto was 23rd at 81-85—166, Mackenzie Kelly of Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut was 24th at 86-80—166, Kaleigh Irey of Taft College was 26th at 84-83—167, Desiree Ramos of Napa Valley was 40th at 88-86—174 and Legacy Barnes of San Joaquin Delta College in Visalia was 48th at 98-85—183.
Rounding out the scoring for team champion Canyons were Shabana Poswal in 21st at 86-80—166, Paige Heuer in 30th at 90-79—169, and Gina Chung in 34th at 85-86—171.
“We lose two girls (Chung and Roecker), but the nucleus of this team is going to come back and they are already really excited about playing again and trying to repeat,” Peterson said. “I’ve never been able to win back-to-back championships. That remains a goal of mine.”
For complete results, visit http://cccaasports.org/sports/wgolf/2018-19/files/WGolf_2018_StateScoringDay2.pdf
