Victoria Cui capped off a dream postseason run as the Crystal sophomore captured the CIF Girls’ Golf Championship Wednesday at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach.
And she did it in dramatic fashion. Playing in the last group of the day that also featured junior phenom Asterisk Talley, Cui trailed by two shots with four holes left to play, but birdied the final three holes to post a round of 4-under 67 to win by a shot over Palos Verde’s Rina Kawasaki, Doninia Zhou of Santa Margarita and Ashley Gettleman of Stevenson.
Cui finished fifth in the West Bay Athletic League championship with a 2-over 74 at Bayland Golf Links in Palo Alto, captured the Central Coast Section title with a round of 4-under 67 at Laguna Seca Golf Ranch in Monterey and finished third with a score of 2-under 70 at the Northern California regional tournament at Berkeley Country Club in El Cerrito.
Cui opened with four pars in a row before notching a birdie at the 357-yard, par-4 fourth and ended her front-9 with an eagle-3 on the 455-yard, par-5 ninth hole to drop to 3-under at the turn.
She parred holes 10, 11 and 12 before back-to-back bogeys at 13 and 14 dropped her back to 1-under, two shots behind clubhouse leader Gettleman.
But Cui had a storybook finish, with three straight birdies on hole Nos. 16, 17, 18.
Two other golfers from the CCS also had a top-10 finishes. In addition to Gettleman’s fourth-place finish, while St. Ignatius’ Stevie Umali finished in a tie for seventh with a 1-under 70. Talley, who is the second-ranked junior golfer in the world and is committed to play collegiately at Stanford, finished in a tie for 20th with a 2-over 73.
Stevenson, which won the CCS team title, finished third in the state tournament with a score of 12-over 367. Santa Margarita captured the team championship with score of even-par 355. Torrey Pines was second, with an 8-over 363.
SHP, Carlmont doubles teams to face off in CCS semis
With Los Altos having won the Central Coast Section girls’ tennis team title last week, the CCS singles and doubles tournaments got underway this week, with the first two rounds of the doubles draw being played Tuesday.
On one side of the bracket, there is a Peninsula Athletic League vs West Bay Athletic League match up, while the other side of the bracket features a pair of Monta Vista squads.
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Sacred Heart Prep’s Charlotte Weber and Jena Azmeh, the No. 1 seed, lost a total of five games as they advanced to the semifinals Thursday.
The Gators pair, which also won the WBAL doubles championship, cruised to a 6-1, 6-1, first-round win over a team from Wilcox. In the second round, Weber and Azmeh beat Menlo’s Milla Bardony and Leighton Bardony, 6-1, 6-2.
The Bardony sisters, Milla a senior and Leighton a freshman, won their first-round match, 6-2, 6-2.
The SHP tandem will face Carlmont’s Zoe Hendricks and Megan Bence, who were the No. 1 and No. 2 singles for a Scots’ squad that won their second straight PAL Bay Division title.
The fourth-seeded Hendricks and Bence also won their first- and second-round matches in straight sets. They opened with a 6-0, 6-2 win over a duo from Santa Catalina, before beating a Branham team, 6-1, 6-2.
The Aragon entry of Shanay Biouk and Jessa Williams, posted a first-round win, 6-0, 6-1 over a team from Santa Cruz, but were eliminated in the second round, 6-1, 7-5.
The singles tournament, after a day’sdelay, started Wednesday with the first two round being played at Bay Club Courtside in Los Gatos and both San Mateo County representatives have been eliminated.
Aragon sent its top two singles players, Mia Lo and Ella Teng, who went 1-2 at the PAL championships. Lo, a freshman, managed to win her first-round match at love, dominating Monte Vista Christian’s Sofia Moore, 6-0, 6-0.
But Lo’s first CCS singles tournament came to an end in the second round with a 6-1, 7-6(8) loss to No. 3 seed Akina Ogawa of Palo Alto.
Teng’s tournament ended with a straight-set loss to top-seeded Kayla Mitchell of Los Gatos — 6-3, 6-4.
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