Idyllwild native Brendan Steele will play this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, in the two-day Military Appreciation Pro-Am on the TPC Sawgrass course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The tournament will benefit Birdies for the Brave, a military outreach initiative originally created by Steele’s friend and fellow PGA pro Phil Mickelson and…
The third trip to the state volleyball tournament was a repeat of the 2011 visit for the Hemet High School girls volleyball team, CIF SS champions. Cathedral Catholic of Del Mar defeated the Hemet team again in the first round of the state tourney. The scores were 25-9, 25-18, 25-14. Cathedral Catholic was the San…
Idyllwild’s Lauren Salter competed in the second North American Cup stop in Calgary, Alberta. In the first Women’s Skeleton Race on Nov. 15, Salter finished 13th, with a combined 2-race time of 1:59.01 (59.83, 59.18). “I placed 13th in my race, not where I wanted to finish, but I had two huge personal records on…
Jim Crandall, Palms to Pines Golf Association handicap chair, provided this report about the Friday, Nov. 16, golf tournament. The club held its regular monthly tournament at Morongo Tukwet Canyon Champions Course in Beaumont. It was cloudy in the morning, with sprinkling rain. Although the rain stopped, the clouds stayed. Temperatures were mild, and the…
The Hemet High School Girls Volleyball team is returning to the CIF tournament for the third consecutive year. This time they will face Cathedral Catholic High School from San Diego in a Division III first round match at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20 at Cathedral Catholic. ON Saturday, the Lady Bulldogs defeated Saddleback Valley Christian…
The Hemet High School Girls Volleyball team is returning to the CIF SS finals for the third consecutive year. This time they will face Saddleback Valley Christian High School from San Juan Capistrano in the Division 4AA championship 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17 at Cypress College. Last night, the Lady Bulldogs defeated Anaheim Loara High…
Brendan Steele finished in the money in the last official-money tournament of the 2012 PGA Tour season. He posted 67-75-72-68 — 282 last week at the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Classic in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., to finish in a tie for 40th place. He earned $16,045, bringing his final official earnings for the year…
Hemet High Boys cross-country The Hemet High School boy’s cross-county team’s season ended at the CIF — SS preliminary races Saturday, Nov. 10. They finished ninth in its heat, but were about a minute short of qualifying for this coming weekend’s CIF-SS cross-county finals. Idyllwild sophomore Jayden Emerson cointinued his streak of sub-16-minute races, but…
For the third consecutive year, the Hemet High School girls’ volleyball team will play in the CIF-SS semi-finals Tuesday evening, Nov. 13. The Bulldogs, seeded second in Division 4AA, had a first-round bye. In the second round, they easily defeated Twentynine Palms High School in 3 games (25-15, 25-6 and 25-14). Saturday night, Hemet…
