The Summerville Bear golfers shot a season-low 214 to easily defeat Amador by 70 strokes on Tuesday at Mountain Springs Golf Club.

“I think the warmer weather agrees with us,” said Bears head coach Darcy Wingo. 

Charlie McClung led the Bears with a 3-over-par 39 to earn medalist honors.

The Bret Harte Bullfrogs golf team has been a model of consistency this season — they win and score low.

Tuesday against Linden it was no different.

The Bullfrogs had five golfers all within three strokes and remained unbeaten in the Mother Lode League with a 211-254 shellacking of the Lions at Lockeford Springs.

Kade Barajas shot a match-low 4-over-par 41 to lead the Sonora Wildcat golfers over Manteca 223-227 Tuesday at Manteca Municipal.

Barajas was co-medalist for the first time this season.

“He’s been really close before but this is his first time as the medalist,” said Wildcat head coach Steve Lee. “He did really well today. And Manteca (5-8 Valley Oak League) has improved a lot.”

Every March for more than 10 years, a globe-trotting Sonora woman has made the journey to Alaska where she volunteers to oversee a facility housing hundreds of world-class athletes.

Susan Shinkai, 54, a pharmacist at Sonora Regional Medical Center, takes a yearly vacation to serve as the nightshift supervisor of a dog lot in Nome during the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

“We take care of the dogs until the mushers get there,” Shinkai said.

Members of Foothill Gold Running and Track Club are (back row, from left) Jackson McIlroy, 14, coach Darren Holman, Cassi Land, 12, (front row) Ryan Dunlap, 12 (left), and Adin Dibble, 9. McIlroy was the top finisher at the Old Mill Run Saturday in Columbia. Maggie Beck / Union Democrat

By CHRIS BATEMAN
For The Union Democrat

The future of the venerable Old Mill Run was on gaudy display at the 34th edition of the Columbia State Historic Park race Saturday. 

Fourteen-year-old Jackson McIlroy, the youngest Old Mill winner ever, overtook eventual runner-up Mike Morris, 31, at the 10K’s halfway mark and cruised home in 41:15. Belleview School sixth-grader Ryan Dunlap, a 12-year-old, came in 30 seconds behind Morris to take third, crossing the line at 42:27.

Thirty-year-old Lia Jigour of Coulterville, a member of a Stanislaus National Forest Hotshot firefighting team, took the women’s title with a time of 46:25.

The Mother Lode Gun Club Nuggets, Sonora High Trap Club and Summerville Sporting Club competed Saturday at the Livermore Rod & Gun Club and battled wind gusts up to 20 mph that could cause the best shooters to struggle.

Bowler's Trivia: How many strikes must be bowled in three games to reach an 800 series? Answer at end.

Bob Chambers was marching towards a perfect game on April 9 at Black Oak Lanes.

The High Roller bowler had rolled nine strikes in-a-row and was heading to the 10th frame to go for perfection.

SAN JOSE—Making good on his pre-fight prediction and living up to considerable press touting him as a rising star in the division, UFC bantamweight TJ Dillashaw made it two knockouts in-a-row when he entered the cage for his second short-notice fight in the past five weeks.

The 27-year-old Calaveras County native, and product of Sacramento’s Team Alpha Male, took on Brazil’s Hugo Viana and wrecked him in front of 13,406 loud and lively fans Saturday night at UFC on FOX 7: Henderson vs Melendez.

Walters hurls Skins into 1st 

Hurler Megan Walters led the Redskins to a 4-1 softball victory Friday over county rival Bret Harte that bumped Calaveras into first place in the Mother Lode League.

Walters advanced to 11-6 on the season with the win Friday while lowering her earned run average to 1.76. She also went 2 for 3 at the plate.

Redskins Jennifer Scantlen and Taylor Robinson each had RBI-singles.

Calaveras Redskins Tiffany Souza (left) and Tina Giudici (right) celebrate Souza's goal on Thursday against Amador at Frank Meyer Field. Maggie Beck / Union Democrat

The 1-0 shutout victory in San Andreas propelled the Redskins to the top of the MLL with just four games left in the 2013 girls’ soccer season.

“I have never been so excited in my life,” Souza said immediately after walking off the field Thursday night. “It’s such an adrenaline rush! Amador’s a great team and I’m just happy we came out strong, played our hardest and got the goal.”