Park Represents the U.S. in Golf

Jane Park of Rancho Cucamonga is one of four members of the U.S. team that will play in the Spirit International Amateur Golf Championships beginning today at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity, Texas.

The biennial event is touted as the Olympics of amateur golf. It features the top amateurs players who represent their countries in team and individual competition.

Park, 16, runner-up in the U.S. Women’s Amateur championship in August, joins Paula Creamer of Pleasanton; Matt Rosenfeld of Plano, Texas; and Brandt Snedeker of Nashville on the U.S. squad that will compete against teams from 23 other countries.

The 72-hole tournament consists of five tournaments running concurrently: individual women, individual men, women’s and men’s team and combined team score. The final round is Saturday.

-- Peter Yoon

West Torrance won the medium-schools title in the Clovis Invitational cross-country meet at Woodward Park in Fresno on Saturday, but the Warriors’ celebration was tempered by the fact that junior Angela Spadafino failed to finish the race after experiencing an asthma attack.

Spadafino played in a volleyball match for West Torrance on Friday before traveling to Fresno with her father that night.

She was running with junior teammate Alison Kielty -- who finished seventh -- after 1 3/4 miles of the 5,000-meter race. But she dropped out before the two-mile mark and was still short of breath 40 minutes later, according to West Torrance Coach Kent Wyatt.

“It’s a concern for us, but we feel it’s controllable,” Wyatt said about Spadafino’s asthma.

Spadafino will not run in the second Bay League cross-country meet of the season Thursday because it conflicts with her volleyball match. But Wyatt expects her to run in the Mt. San Antonio College Invitational on Oct. 25.

-- John Ortega