A Team of Their Own for Golfers

Riverside King has had two of the top girls’ golfers in Southern California for the last two years, but this year will be the first that Nicole Smith and Sommer Scholl get to play on the girls’ golf team.

Smith, the 2001 Southern Section individual champion, and Scholl, a force on the junior golf scene for years, have played on the boys’ team the last two seasons because King didn’t have enough players for a girls’ team. Now it does.

Coach Mike Martin scouted the softball and basketball teams looking for athletes and found enough talent to field a team. There are 10 players out for the team. Smith and Scholl are juniors.

“We felt like we had enough girls at school to play golf,” said Martin, who hopes the team can improve enough to qualify for the playoffs. “We’re very pleased with the progress they are making. We’re seeing palpable, tangible improvement.”

Peter Yoon

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The Garden Grove Los Amigos football team will forfeit its 42-14 victory Friday over Huntington Beach because it used an ineligible player.

Coach Roger Takahashi said that upon investigation, it was discovered a player who had transferred over the summer was not living at the address he supplied to the school.

Last year, Huntington Beach had to forfeit its victory over Los Amigos because it used a 14-year-old player without filing proper documentation.