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| Sunday, May 4 2008 11:39 PM
Last Updated: Monday, May 5 2008 10:11 AM
Last Monday’s furious finish to the Western State Conference golf season has Bakersfield College brimming with confidence.
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The Renegades compete today at the 36-hole Southern California Championships at the par-73, 6,826-yard Soboda Springs Country Club in San Jacinto.
BC leapfrogged two teams in rallying to win the WSC title last Monday and enters the SoCal event as the top-ranked team in Southern California, coach Larry Cook said.
“What’s so brutal is everything starts over,” Cook said. “We are very comfortably at the No. 1 ranking in Southern California. If it goes as predicted, we should win this easily.”
The Renegades have played this season at the Soboda Springs Country Club. BC shot a 380 to place second to Ventura’s 377 in a WSC meet.
Ventura is also among the 13 or 14 teams entered in today’s tournament and ranked eighth. College of the Canyons, which BC caught and passed last Monday in the WSC meet, is ranked No. 2.
Others of note competing today: Southern California powers Saddleback, which is the defending state champion; Cypress; Santa Ana; Santiago Canyon; and College of the Desert.
The top four finishers today will advance to the state meet Monday at the Southern California Golf Association course in Murrieta. The top four teams from Northern California will join that tournament lineup.
BC will have a six-player lineup with the lowest five scores determining the Renegades’ score.
BC’s players are sophomores Bryce Holloway, the WSC Player of the Year and a first-team All-WSC pick; Tony Denesha, also a first-team WSC pick; David Moore; Danny Hoff; and freshmen Josh Barnes (first-team All-WSC) and Nick Harper.
All of BC’s players are from local high schools. Holloway and Moore are from Highland, Denesha and Hoff attended Stockdale, Barnes is from Centennial and Harper is from Liberty.
“All local players,” Cook said. “I’m as excited about that as I am about anything.”
ARNESON GETS SCHOLARSHIP
Dana Arneson from the BC women’s golf team, has accepted a golf scholarship to Cal State San Marcos, coach Larry Cook announced.
Arneson, a first-team All-WSC player from Centennial High, finished eighth in the community college state meet last fall.