Camarillo Cleared of Wrongdoing

The Camarillo High softball team will play its Division I quarterfinal game Thursday against Mater Dei after a Southern Section investigation into newspaper reports of a workout in violation of section rules.

According to the reports, Camarillo center fielder Jefflyn Spahr had an illegal workout with Coach Darwin Tolzin on Sunday. Section rules prohibit organized games or practices on Sundays.

The section determined Wednesday that Spahr took batting practice at Camarillo High with her father while Tolzin was working at the field and that the coach was not involved.

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Michigan pitcher Sara Griffin, a freshman from Simi Valley High, is one of three local players on the first-team All-American softball team.

Griffin was 21-6 with a 1.39 earned-run average and batted .444.

Arizona junior second baseman Jenny Dalton, a Glendale graduate, and Arizona senior first baseman Amy Chellevold, a Thousand Oaks graduate, were also first-teamers. Dalton hit .400 with 94 runs batted in and 27 home runs and Chellevold hit .448 with 46 RBIs.

Cal State Northridge’s Scia Maumausolo was second team.

Golf

Three area players advanced to the semifinals of match play in the first flight of the 73rd Women’s Southern California Golf Assn. State Championship at Bakersfield Country Club.

Sylvia Kim of Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley defeated Lucy Stack of Green Hills, 1 up; Betty Pfahler of Crystalaire edged Barbara Vandeweghe of San Jose, 1 up; and Patty Mitchell of Sunset Hills beat Suzy Duff of PGA West, 3 and 1.

Kim and Pfahler will play in the semifinals today.

In the championship flight, Cherie Zaun of Glendale was defeated in the quarterfinals by Ann Lahey of Meadow, 2 and 1.

Jan Gannatal of Saticoy Country Club and Arleen Boyuls of Elkins Ranch Golf Course teamed to win the annual member-guest tournament at Saticoy.

The pair shot a best-ball 77 to win the first flight and won a tiebreaker with Anna Lena Gustavsson of Saticoy and Maj-Brit Gardner of Wood Ranch Country Club.

Arlene Thompson of Saticoy and Jean Maxfield of Sunset Hills Country Club finished third with an 80.

Bowling

Robin Romeo of Newhall finished one place and 63 pins out of the stepladder finals Wednesday night in the $75,000 LPBT Omaha Lancers Open at Omaha.

Romeo, a recent entry into the bowling Hall of Fame, wound up sixth with 9,878 pins, behind fifth-place Cheryl Daniels of Detroit, who had 9,941.

Romeo earned $2,625. Tish Johnson of Northridge was ninth with a pinfall of 9,734, and made $2,250.

* Contributing: Steve Elling, Jeff Fletcher, Bryan Rodgers.