Fountain Valley’s Kung Loses in Final of Girls’ Junior Event

Fountain Valley’s Candie Kung lost the first two holes of match play and never recovered, losing to Beth Bauer, 4 and 2, in the final of the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship Saturday.

Bauer, 17, a two-time high school champion from Valrico, Fla., made a 10-foot putt for birdie on the 16th hole to close out Kung. It was her third birdie of the day on the 6,097-yard Legends Club course.

Kung, 15, a junior-to-be at Fountain Valley High, won the seventh and 11th holes. Each time, though, she lost the following hole. Her bogey on No. 15 gave Bauer her first three-hole lead.

Kung plays for Fountain Valley’s varsity golf team; she finished third in the CIF-Southern California Golf Assn. girls’ championship in June.

Bauer’s toughest challenge came in a 19-hole quarterfinal match against defending champion Dorothy Delasin. Delasin was 1-up with one hole to play but lost the next two.