Booth Wins Western Amateur Golf Title

Kellee Booth of Coto de Caza defeated Hilary Homeyer of Edina, Minn., 3 and 2, in the 36-hole final of the Women’s Western Golf Assn. National Amateur Championship Sunday in Fishers, Ind.

Booth led 1-up after 18 holes, earning a half on No. 18 with a bogey although she hit into a water hazard. Booth birdied the first hole of the afternoon round to go 2-up and moved to a 4-up lead with a birdie on No. 11 and a par on No. 12. Homeyer won No. 14, but got no closer.

Booth reached the final last year but lost to Grace Park of Phoenix.

VOLLEYBALL

Liz Masakayan and Elaine Youngs won the Oldsmobile Alero Beach Volleyball Series women’s event with a 15-10 victory over Linda Hanley and Nancy Reno in the Gold Medal match in Virginia Beach, Va.

Youngs, from El Toro High, and Masakayan won their third domestic title this season and split $20,000. Masakayan and Youngs, who rallied from a 10-6 deficit in the final, easily defeated Holly McPeak and Gabrielle Reece in the semifinals, 15-6.

Hanley (Laguna Beach High) and Reno won $14,000 for second place and McPeak and Reece won $10,000 for third.

Ali Wood (UC Irvine) and Danalee Bragado finished tied for seventh with Mission Viejo’s Stephanie Cox and Katy Eldridge. Laguna Beach’s Rachel Wacholder and Jennifer Holdren finished tied for 13th with Patty Dodd and Angela Rock (El Toro High) and two other teams.

* In the Assn. of Volleyball Professional men’s event in Belmar, N.J., Mike Whitmarsh and Dave Swatik won their second consecutive tournament and defeated Canyon Ceman and Brian Lewis (Corona del Mar High), 15-6, to win the $18,000 first prize.

Ceman and Lewis only reached the final after surviving a 2 1/2-hour semifinal match against Karch Kiraly (San Clemente) and Adam Johnson (Laguna Beach High). Ceman and Lewis won, 4-7, 13-11, 9-7, to deny Kiraly a shot at a record 140th tournament title.

Dain Blanton (Laguna Beach High) and Eric Fonoimoana finished tied for fifth.

ROLLER HOCKEY

The Bullfrogs have agreed to let season ticket holders attend the Roller Hockey International playoffs for free in order to settle a dispute that arose when the team cut regular-season prices by as much as a third in an attempt to stimulate sagging attendance.

More than 500 season ticket holders, about a quarter of the number the team had two seasons ago, will get free passes to their usual seats for all five playoff games, which will be Aug. 18, 19 and 22 at the Arrowhead Pond.

Two weeks ago the Bullfrogs lowered ticket prices to as little as $8 a seat and said they would no longer sell tickets to the top level of the arena. But season ticket holders balked, saying that they had paid hundreds of dollars more to have reserve seats that have since been discounted.