Park Wins City Section Golf Title

Los Angeles CES sophomore Daniel Park was a model of consistency throughout the City Section golf championships, and that steady play earned him the individual title Wednesday at Griffith Park.

After carding a one-under-par 71 in the first round Monday on Harding, Park was the only player to shoot par on the longer Wilson Course on Wednesday and won by two strokes over defending champion Andrew Ok of Granada Hills and Mat Shin of Granada Hills Kennedy. Park finished the two-day tournament with a one-under 143.

Ok and Shin each shot two under to share the first-round lead, one stroke better than Park and two ahead of Palisades’ Ben Seelig.

Park followed a 36 on the front nine Wednesday with another 36 on the back nine.

Palisades won the team title with a two-day total of 789 -- 23 strokes ahead of runner-up San Pedro, which will join the Dolphins at the Southern California Regionals on June 2 at the SCGA Course in Murrieta.

Qualifying as individuals were Park, Shin, Ok, Kevin Bognot of North Hills Monroe, Thomas Lodwig of Woodland Hills El Camino Real, Will Leivenberg and David Dwyer of Reseda Cleveland, Kyle Kirkpatrick of Granada Hills Kennedy, Mustafa Nessari of Reseda, Gene Kim of LACES, Josh Dver of Chatsworth and Andy Nakmanee of Van Nuys Grant.

Steve Galluzzo

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Baseball

Junior left-hander Fabian Williamson improved to 8-1, throwing a five-hitter and contributing three hits in Granada Hills Kennedy’s 5-1 victory over visiting Roosevelt in a first-round game of the City Section’s Championship playoffs.

Kennedy (25-7), seeded No. 3, took advantage of four errors to score four unearned runs. Williamson, an All-City pitcher as a sophomore, got out of his only jam in the bottom of the fifth inning, striking out Paul Franco with the bases loaded.

Roosevelt, seeded No. 14, ended the season at 22-8.

Eric Sondheimer

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Diving

Two-time City Section girls’ champion Chelsea Sawyer will not compete in this year’s preliminaries or finals, which take place Friday at Pierce College in Woodland Hills.

Sawyer, a junior at El Camino Real who set a West Valley League record by scoring 507.95 points during league finals, left Wednesday with other members of the U.S. junior national team to compete in an international meet scheduled for this weekend in Calgary, Canada.

Jamie Flynn, who placed third behind Sawyer and Rachel Pearson of Woodland Hills Taft at last season’s final, should lead a group of three girls still competing for the Conquistadores.

-- Lauren Peterson