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Heading down the homestretch in the Western State Conference, the members of the Glendale Community College men's golf team continues to lower its scores. The Vaqueros are also inching closer to returning to the Southern California Regionals for a second season in a row. Glendale improved its chances for another postseason appearance while turning in some impressive scores bouts of rain Wednesday afternoon during a Western State Conference match at San Dimas Golf Course. Mathias Dahl shot a four-under-par 68, which included an eagle, to help Glendale finish second with a 364. College of the Canyons won the event with a 345. Dahl, a native of Sweden, finished with 11 pars, four birdies and recorded an eagle on the par-five ninth hole just before the rain stopped.

GLENDALE — With their top player battling a cold, not much went right for the already depleted Glendale Community College women's golf team Monday. Tammy Panich, the Vaqueros' top golfer, managed to play her entire 18-hole round. However, for the second match in a row, the Vaqueros did not field a complete team. That led to Glendale finishing fifth with a 258 in a five-team Western State Conference match at The Links at Riverlakes Ranch in Bakersfield. Panich, a Glendale High graduate, shot a seven-over-par 72 on Monday to place third behind Dee Ray of Bakersfield (72)

Peter Fuertes GLENDALE -- The Glendale Community College men's basketball team tries to improve on its No. 8 ranking in the Southern California region among community colleges as it hosts College of the Canyons in a Western State Conference South Division game tonight at 7:30 p.m. The Vaqueros pulled out all the stops against West Los Angeles College Saturday, as they improved to 18-5 overall and 4-1 in conference division...

Edgar Melik-Stepanyan As Glendale Community College baseball first-year Coach Bob Myers said, this has been a crazy year. The Vaqueros look nothing like their teams of the past two years, when they were coached by Jon Strauss, who left the program to become an assistant coach at Loyola Marymount University. The days of relying on home-run hitters to generate most of the runs are gone. -- BOX SCORE -- -- Canyons 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 -- 5 15 1 GCC 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 x -- 6 12 3 -- -- Canyons IP H R ER BB K Haro Savage 6 2 10 2 5 1 5 0 0 0 4 1 Totals 8 12 6 5 0 5 -- -- GCC IP H R ER BB K Marble Conley 6 3 11 4 3 2 3 1 0 0 2 1 Totals 9 15 5 4 0 3 -- -- WP-- Conley (3-3)

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — There are bound to be peaks and valleys in any team's season and the Glendale Community College men's basketball team has gone from one to the other in the span of one week. In its two games since beating Citrus College at home on Jan. 15, the Vaqueros have hardly resembled the squad that won 14 of its first 19 games and handed the defending Western State Conference-champion Owls a rare conference loss. In the wake of that watershed win, Glendale continued to regress with a dispirited 80-64 home conference loss to College of the Canyons on Saturday night.

MEN'S GOLF Vaqueros take second in conference match: Glendale Community College got a two-over-par 74 from Brennan Amirkhizi on Monday in a Western State Conference match at Saticoy Country Club in Ventura County. The Vaqueros placed second with a 390, behind College of the Canyons (382). Aaron Fernandez carded a 77 for the Vaqueros, who got a 78 from Danny Fernandez and a 79 from Michael Timpson. Chris Ramirez and Jin Park each had 82s for Glendale. BOYS' VOLLEYBALL St. Francis 3, Temple City 0: Chris Thompson finished with 21 assists and Wesley Coffey added 11 kills Monday for the visiting Golden Knights in a 25-23, 25-15, 25-12 season-opening nonleague match.

While the members of the Glendale Community College women's golf team would have liked to have won the North-South Invitational, they didn't leave Morro Bay Golf Course empty handed. The Vaqueros finished second in the 15-team event, one stroke behind Western State Conference rival College of the Canyons, but also saw sophomore Pattraporn Silawanna earn medalist honors after winning a one-hole playoff Monday. Silawanna shot a four-over-par 76 on Monday, including recording a birdie on the par-three 10th hole to win the two-day event for the first time.

Winning the Western State Conference Tournament wasn't a shock for the Glendale Community College women's golf team. The amount of strokes the Vaqueros won by turned out to be a surprise, though. “I am surprised to win by that much, but we've been getting better each week,” Glendale college Coach Greg Osbourne said after the Vaqueros shot a 327 and won the two-day tournament by a whopping 42 strokes on Monday. “We couldn't have picked a better time to be playing our best golf.

GLENDALE — Temperatures rose above 100 degrees across most of Southern California on Monday. That included Solvang, where the Glendale Community college women's golf team participated in a five-team Western State Conference match at the River Course at Alisal. The weather conditions weren't conducive for the Vaqueros, who finished fourth in the event after carding a 342. "The weather was very, very hot and not what we are used to," said Glendale college first-year Coach Greg Osbourne, who saw sophomore Tammy Panich tie for second with a five-over-par 77. "A lot of the scores might have been high because of the hot day. "Unfortunately, we came in fourth.

GLENDALE ? Rain on Friday caused the postponement of two local games Saturday. Glendale Community College's baseball game against College of the Canyons at Stengel Field and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy's softball game at home against Mayfield were the latest in a long line of local events postponed due to inclement weather this spring. The Tologs' game was a nonleague contest, while the Vaqueros were scheduled for a Western State Conference Southern Division game. Both of the aforementioned contests were delayed because of unplayable fields and it is not known when they will be rescheduled.