Sea Kings place 9th

The Corona del Mar High girls golf team finished ninth among 16 teams

at the CIF Southern Section team finals Monday at Las Posas Country

Club in Camarillo.

“This is the best we’ve ever done,” Sea Kings Coach Mike

Starkweather said with pride. “We’ve never made it to the big dance,

but we were there today. And there are no divisions in golf.”

Katie Albright shot 17-over-par 89 to pace the Sea Kings, on a

course that was particularly tough, Starkweather said.

“It was so hilly, there were a lot of blind shots, and the greens

were lightning,” Starkweather said. “It was like putting on a

linoleum floor, with one side six feet higher than the other. It was

crazy.”

Katie McKitterick (90), Jonna Kim (91), Caitlin McDonald (94),

Michelle Albrecht (102) and Maggie Nelson (102) also contributed for

CdM.

McKitterick, the Pacific Coast League runner-up, continues her

season Thursday in the CIF individual finals at Mission Lakes Country

Club in Desert Hot Springs.

Lions get NAIA berth

* CROSS COUNTRY: The Vanguard University women’s cross country

team earned the program’s first bid to the NAIA championships,

scheduled Nov. 20 in Louisville, Ky.

The Lions, ranked No. 25 in the NAIA and a fourth-place finisher

at the NAIA Region II championships Saturday in Fresno, were one of

three at-large selections from Division II.

VU is led by senior captain Jenny Thune, who finished seventh in

Fresno, completing the 3.1-mile course in 18:24.