Torrey Pines Favored in Finale

The girls’ golf season concludes today with the CIF-WSCGA championships at the SCGA Members Club in Murrieta.

The tournament, sponsored by the California Interscholastic Federation and the Women’s Southern California Golf Assn., pits the top teams and players from the Southern, San Diego, Central and City Sections.

Encinitas Torrey Pines is the two-time defending team champion, and with UCLA-bound senior Hanna Jun leading an experienced lineup, the Falcons are again favored.

Goleta Dos Pueblos, Rolling Hills Estates Peninsula, Anaheim Esperanza and Camarillo are the Southern Section representatives and Granada Hills will represent the City Section.

Southern Section individual champion Jenni Tangtiphaiboontana, a senior at Long Beach Wilson, is among the favorites for the individual title. Southern Section runner-up Jennie Lee is also among the favorites. A sophomore from Huntington Beach Edison, Lee tied for sixth last year and is coming off a quarterfinal appearance last week in the match-play portion of the AJGA Polo Junior Golf Classic. Torrance freshman Angela Park should also fare well. Her postseason rounds of 72, 70, and 72 are the tops among Southern Section players and she was a semifinalist at the AJGA tournament last week.

-- Peter Yoon

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Ed Lalau is considering whether to return as football coach at Wilmington Banning as he tends to his ailing mother.

Lalau just finished his fifth season with the Pilots who went 4-7 and were defeated by Woodland Hills Taft in the first round of the City Section playoffs.

Lalau learned that his mother needed emergency surgery on Wednesday to remove a tumor from her stomach. Banning Athletic Director Marc Paez said he spoke to the coach on Monday and Lalau indicated he hasn’t officially resigned, even though he leaned toward that decision over the weekend.

“As far as I’m concerned, Ed is our coach,” Paez said. “We want him to take as much time as he needs to tend to his family right now.”

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The sites for the City Section football semifinals have been determined, with top-seeded Taft (12-0) playing fourth-seeded Venice (10-2) at Woodland Hills El Camino Real High and seventh-seeded Gardena (9-3) playing sixth-seeded Lake Balboa Birmingham (9-3) at Los Angeles Pierce College in championship semifinals.

In the Invitational division, Granada Hills (9-3) plays Huntington Park (8-4) at Salesian High and Harbor City Narbonne (4-8) hosts L.A. Jordan (7-5) at Gardena High.

-- Eric Stephens

Offensive lineman Drew Radovich of Mission Viejo has committed to USC. The 6-foot-5, 285-pounder is considered California’s top lineman prospect.