Osseck Leads Santa Margarita to Golf Title
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Just how happy was the Santa Margarita High golf team after winning the CIF-Southern California Golf Assn. Championship on Tuesday? Try truly giddy.
The whoops that rang out when the Eagle players learned they beat Santa Barbara San Marcos by two strokes at the SCGA Members’ Club at Rancho California in Murrieta were only the beginning.
“I think we’re all going have to eat out of this at Sizzler,” said senior Nate Blauer, holding the championship plate.
Later Blauer posed for pictures kissing the same trophy. Presumably, that put a stop the idea of using it for a dinner plate.
Santa Margarita earned the right to be a little nutty, shooting five-over par 365, the lowest score in the CIF-SCGA tournament since Westlake shot 362 at North Ranch in 1987. The Eagles had three players shoot par or better, led by junior Tom Osseck at two-under 70. Blauer and fellow senior Kelly Craig each shot 72.
San Marcos, the Southern Section team champion, was only slightly off the pace with four players shooting 74 or better: J.R. Ruda (71), George Downing (72), Michael Chavez (73) and Ryan Nomura (74).
The boys’ individual championship was won by David Oh, a sophomore at Cerritos Whitney. Oh shot four-under 68, surviving a bogey on his second to last hole to hold off Long Beach Wilson junior Kelly Williams.
Nicole Dalkas of Palm Desert shot 67 to win the girls’ title.
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