


Photos by Jenny Kirchner

Photos by Jenny Kirchner
Sports: Town Hall soccer season comes to a close
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Brendan Steele had a rough time of it at the Wells Fargo last week, posting an 8-over-par 72-72-70-78 — 292 and finishing tied for 70th place.His drives averaged 305 yards, but they found only 53% of the fairways while he hit 61% of the greens in regulation. His putter was problematic, too — he averaged…
Brendan Steele scored a fine come-from-behind top-20 finish at the CareerBuilders Challenge on Sunday, posting a 14-under-par 71-69-66-68 — 274. The Idyllwild native was below the cut line after two days of the three-day cut, but sharper irons and a cooperative putter combined to launch him up the leaderboard on the weekend. Brendan has collected…
The Hemet High School Girls Volleyball (23-6) team has returned to the state championships for the second consecutive year. On Saturday, they defeated the Cornelia Connelly School of Anaheim in games. Hemet took the first two games easily 25-11 and 25-6. Connelly came back from a 5-0 deficit in the third game and won 21-25,…
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 this week’s Town Crier. I was under the very mistaken impression that a player not only needed to score high enough on the FedExCup list to advance…
Ginger Dagnall, playing for Idyllwild Pizza Co., and Lance Fogle, of Forest Lumber, meet at the net during Town Hall Adult Volleyball Saturday afternoon at Idyllwild School.
No, Brendan Steele isn’t injured. He’s just been taking four weeks off to spend time with family and to prepare for next week’s U.S. Open. The native Idyllwilder currently stands 22nd on the FedExCup list and 51st in the Official World Golf Ranking. That may change a bit next Monday morning. A nice finish at…