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Last Thursday, Hemet High School’s track teams — mens and womens — defeated Beaumont High School. Former Idyllwild School students were significant contributors to Hemet’s victories. Several juniors and two freshmen are members of the school’s varsity teams. Three junior boys continued their spring successes. Chad Schelly won the 400-meter race, was a member of…
The Hemet High School Girls Volleyball (23-7) team’s journey through the state championships ended abruptly in Del Mar Tuesday, Nov. 22. Nationally ranked Cathedral Catholic swept Hemet 3-0. The game scores were 25-9, 25-18 and 25-14 in the final. This is the second consecutive year Hemet has ended its season in the first round of…
Brendan Steele missed the cut for the first time in six appearances at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas last week. He slammed drives an average of 328 yards, but they found fairways only 57 percent of the time, leading to hitting 69 percent of the greens in regulation — and he…
Brendan Steele had up-and-down rounds in the U.S. Open last week, missing the cut by one stroke. He pulled it altogether for his last three holes scoring birdie-birdie-birdie — perhaps in preparation for this week’s tournament.The Idyllwild native will tee it up Thursday in the $7.4-million Travelers Championship on the TPC River Highlands course in…
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, Oct. 19, golf tournament. The club held its regular monthly tournament at Oak Valley Golf Club in Beaumont. It was a perfect fall day and the course was in excellent shape. Regular 2012-13 Tournament Les Widerynski (course handicap 18) shot…
Brendan Steele fired a 5-under-par 70-71-72-70 — 283 last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida, to tie for 17th place and capture his second top-20 finish of this PGA Tour season. On the week, the Idyllwild native found 69 percent of the fairways with drives averaging 300 yards. His approaches hit 67…