The Hemet High School boy’s volleyball team beat Saddleback High School (Orange County) 3 games to 1. The individual game scores were 25-10, 25-19, 14-25 and 25-22. Hemet plays Oak Park High School next.
The game is Thursday, 7 p.m., at Oak Park, which is the number one seed in the division. Oak Park’s record is 26-6. They were undefeated (12-0) in the Tri-Valley League.
Oak Park is in LA county, between Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks.
I apologize to Brendan Steele and his family — including his parents, Kent and Jana Steele here in Idyllwild — and to our readers for my blunder in last week’s Town Crier. I was under the very mistaken impression that a player needed not only to score high enough on the FedExCup list to advance…
Brendan Steele posted a 2-under-par 286 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week to earn a tie for 18th place, his second-best finish in the Palmer ever. The Idyllwild native collected an eagle and 10 birdies against 10 bogeys while finding nearly 61% of the fairways with drives averaging 296 yards. He hit 67% of…
Brendan Steele posted a 4-over-par 71-73 — 144 at the PGA Championship at the Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey last week. From his stats, it appears that driving accuracy was a bit of a problem (he hit 13 of 29 fairways), he lost most of a stroke to the field with approach irons, and…
Brendan Steele posted a 6-under-par 73-69-73-67 — 282 at the Emirates Australian Open in Sydney last week to take outright 12th place. Along the way, he posted 20 birdies against 7 bogeys — one triple and one quad. Ouch! To demonstrate how damaging the triple and the quad were, had they both been simple bogeys…
Town Hall Sports Coordinator Richard Mozeleski gave this report on adult softball: Adult co-ed softball is up and running in Idyllwild. Last year’s champ, Creekstone Inn, is repeating its slow start of last season but is showing it will be a force to be reckoned with. This season, two new teams are on board with…
Brendan Steele will tee it up this week on the PGA National (Champion) course at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in The Honda Classic, a $7-million tournament. In his nine previous PGA Tour seasons, the Idyllwild native has played The Honda Classic eight times, collecting three top-20s. He has only been cut once — last year…
