
Photo courtesy of Mike Morton
Klingaman gets two seconds
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Emma Klingaman of Idyllwild is a sophomore on the Lees McRae College, North Carolina Cross Country cycling team. She has two second-place finishes in her last two races. The season ends in December.

The Los Angeles Marathon was Sunday, March 17, and two Hill residents completed the 26-mile jaunt. In her second marathon, Jana Baker’s time was 4:17:19 and Molly Newman, running her first marathon, completed it in 4:31:01. Running with more than 24,000 other marathoners, both women finished ahead of 18,000 other runners.
The annual 5K & 10K Fitness Run and Walk is again scheduled for the first Saturday in June and the course, through Idyllwild County Park, is unchanged.
Last week Brendan Steele made it into Sunday’s play in The Barclays, the first of four FedExCup playoff tournaments, but he didn’t score well enough to help himself in the standings. The Idyllwild native posted an even-par 71-71-69-73 — 284 to finish in 57th place. He found only 53.6 percent of the fairways with drives…
Steele’s one-under-par 70-71 — 141 in The Barclay’s last week was not good enough to make the cut in the first tournament of the FedEx Cup playoffs, so he earned no new FedEx cup points. However, he had enough FedEx Cup points built up from regular season play to advance to the second tournament of…
Last week, Brendan Steele justified the praise of his super fans André Pilon and Pierrette Filon of Montreal that he does not give up.
Brendan Steele experienced tough times in two more tournaments during the past two weeks, missing the cuts at the Shell Houston Open and at his first Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. His stats in Houston and Augusta once again indicate difficulty with greens in regulation and putting. Steele is not playing this week. Next week,…