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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.

Pine Cove resident Mark Dean heads to Boston on Tuesday, April 9, to run for the first time in that city’s prestigious marathon. As the Hill’s sole runner in the Monday, April 15, Boston event, Dean, 60, said he is proud to represent the mountain communities. The mountain may also have conferred an advantage on…
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, reports about the Friday, April 18, golf tournament at the Diamond Valley Golf Club in Hemet.
Brendan Steele had another good tournament last week at The McGladrey Classic on the Seaside Course in Sea Island, Ga. His scorecard showed 67-71-66-68 — 272, an eight-under-par performance that earned a tie for 20th place and upped his official money-list earnings by more than $41,000. Steele drove exceptionally well, hitting nearly 80 percent of…
Idyllwild native Brendan Steele teamed with Keegan Bradley, his close friend from Nationwide Tour days, to win the PGA Tour’s 2011 Franklin Templeton “Shark” Shootout at the Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Fla., last week. The two PGA Tour rookies posted a 32-under-par score over the three days of competition on the par 72 course…
Brendan Steele chalked up his eighth top-25 finish in 23 entries so far this season at the Barracuda Championship in Reno last week. He found more than 80 percent of the fairways with drives averaging 321 yards. Steele also hit more than 77 percent of the greens in regulation and gained 0.292 strokes putting against…
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report on the Friday, March 16, golf tournament: The club held its regular monthly tournament at The Oak Valley Golf Club. It was so foggy in the morning that if you hit a good drive off the first tee, you couldn’t see where your…