Granada Hills Takes Swing at Title

The final CIF event on the calendar should be worth the wait.

Ten teams and the best golfers from the City, Southern, Central and San Diego sections bring down the curtain on the 1994-95 high school year today at Bernardo Heights Country Club in the CIF-Southern California Golf Assn. Championship.

Granada Hills High, which finished with a 36-hole total of 791 to rout runner-up Birmingham by 67 shots at Rancho Park Golf Course last month and win a third consecutive City title, could make a run at the championship.

Westlake also has a shot after finishing tied for second with Torrance in the Southern Section team final last month, four shots behind Placentia Valencia. Also in the field are Clovis West, the Central champion, and Torrey Pines, the San Diego titlist.

Birmingham, San Dieguito, Sunny Hills and Clovis also will play for the team title.

Seniors Anthony Marciano of Royal and Darren Angel of Granada Hills should challenge for the boys’ title. Marciano won the Marmonte League championship in 1994 and was second this spring. Angel is the three-time defending City champion.

Steve Farris, a senior from Hart who is headed for California, was the low area qualifier from the Southern Section. Farris finished fifth last month at the Southern Section individual championship at Canyon Springs Country Club in Palm Springs.

Play begins with a shotgun start at 7:30 a.m.

Angel’s foursome includes Terry Noe of Sunny Hills, the U.S. Junior Amateur champion, and Ted Oh of Torrance, who qualified for the U.S. Open two years ago.

Angel has signed with Arizona State and Marciano will attend San Diego State.

At 1:30 p.m., a 46-player girls’ individual tournament will begin. Eight players from the region qualified, including sisters Jill and Julie Kaopua of Oxnard.

Favored are Julie Oh of Torrance, Ted’s sister, and Jenny Lee of Sunny Hills, top national juniors.