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Troubie golf finishes fifth at SJS Div. I tourney

Troubie golf finishes fifth at SJS Div. I tourney

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sophomore Chloe Jun carded a 4-over-par 76 while senior Arden Han-Wei finished a stroke back at 77, leading St. Francis to a team score of 420 strokes, good for fifth place at the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I girls' golf championship, held at the Ridge Golf Course Monday.

The top six teams from the D-I tournament advance to the CIF-SJS Masters championship at Stockton's Reserve at Spanos Park on November 3. Granite Bay won easily at 362 strokes, with Oak Ridge placing a distant second 32 strokes back at 394. Whitney (405), Lodi (411), St. Francis (420) and St. Mary's (429) also advanced to the Masters tourney, with Del Oro (437), Pleasant Grove (437) and Cosumnes Oaks (536) missing the cut.

Jun sank a birdie-4 on No. 9, rated as the course's toughest hole for the women's tees. Han-Wei birdied back-to-back holes – the par-5 11th and par-4 12th – to help offset early stumbles on the front nine. Junior Momina Niazi finished with an 82, freshman Riya Chima totaled a 90, and junior Nydia Garcia finished with a 95 to complete the Troubadours' scoring. Sophomore Mira Smith rounded out the SF lineup, coming through with a 97 total.

As usual, the Sierra Foothill League dominated the individual leaderboard. Oak Ridge's Bella Ransibrahmanakul finished as the overall medalist with a round of 6-under 66, one stroke ahead of Whitney's Peyton Chan and Granite Bay's Sakura Watanabe. In fact, the Trojans and Wildcats each had two players in the top five, with OR's Emily Guan placing fourth (70) and Nailah Jackson taking fifth (71).

Folsom's Amelia Karnbanjong and Davis' Lily Lingbloom scored 74 and 76, respectively, as the top two individual entrants in the field. Overall, the top nine individuals not on one of the six advancing teams will also appear in the field at the Reserve on November 3.

St. Francis has finished sixth at the three previous SJS divisionals. This is the highest team showing since the Troubies placed second in the 2018 event, although the 2025 team finished 27 strokes better than their SF predecessors from seven years ago.

Live results from the SJS Masters tourney will be available via the iWanamaker website and app.