Sanday Wins Amateur With 36th-Hole Birdie

Former Cal State Northridge golfer Jeff Sanday sank an 18-foot birdie putt on the 36th and final hole Saturday to defeat John Pate of Santa Barbara and win the 84th annual California Amateur Championship at Pebble Beach Golf Links.

Sanday, 24, was 5-up after shooting 68 on the first 18 holes. But the 35-year-old Pate, older brother of PGA veteran Steve Pate, was a stroke behind Sanday with a bogey at 17 in the afternoon round.

Pate was within five feet of a birdie on the par-five 18th after a nice bunker shot, but Sanday’s birdie clinched the match.

It was the longest final in the tournament since 1973.

Miscellany

Birmingham High swept the boys’ and girls’ track titles at the L.A. Watts Summer Games.

Mohammed Ahmed won the 110-meter high hurdles to lead the Birmingham boys, while the girls’ team got first-place finishes from Rachelle Nelson in the 400 and Rickisha Herron in the high jump.

In other L.A. Watts Summer Games results:

Matt Baker scored 15 points and Eric Owens added 14 as Burbank defeated A.B. Miller, 62-51, to advance to the boys’ basketball quarterfinals, where the Bulldogs were defeated, 69-31, by Dominguez. Crescenta Valley lost in the the quarterfinals to Fremont, 49-37, after defeating Chatsworth, 47-43, earlier in the day.

St. Francis advanced to the boys’ soccer semifinals by defeating Corona, 3-1, and Royal defeated Cajon, 7-4, to reach the softball semifinals.

Baseball

Chad Nammack has resigned as coach at Burbank High to accept an assistant position at Harbor College.

Westlake High has named David Wilder coach.

Wilder, a former coach at Verdugo Hills, replaces Bob Wade, who took the job on an interim basis after Rich Herrera resigned prior to the 1995 season.

Contributing: Michael Lazarus, Bryan Rodgers.