By Kimberly Blackfield

Town Crier Intern

With strong performances last week, the St. Francis High golf team and Mountain View High golfer Ben Choe qualified for this week’s Central Coast Section championships.

The championship round was scheduled for Tuesday at Rancho Cañada West Golf Club in Monterey. Results will appear in next week’s Town Crier.

The locals made it to Tuesday’s final by posting solid scores at the CCS regionals, played May 8 and 9 at Rancho Cañada West.

St. Francis won the May 8 team competition with a score of 370. Lancers Adam Sollers, Rick Doerr, Kevin Lozares, Brett Sollers, John Colyar and Todd Scanlin all shot under 80, the only team to do so.

“We all played solid and we are happy with our performance,” said Brett Sollers, who led St. Francis with a 72 to finish fourth overall. Doerr shot 73 (seventh), freshman Lozares 74 (11th), Colyar 75 (13th), Adam Sollers 76 (16th) and Scanlin 77 (22nd).

After winning the team competition by a comfortable 11 strokes, Adam Sollers said St. Francis had the best chance of winning the CCS title. His twin brother agreed.

“We feel very confident to win,” Brett Sollers said.

Individually, Mountain View sophomore Choe moved on to the title round by firing a 73 at the May 8 regional to place ninth.

Los Altos High also competed in the May 8 regional, but its ninth-place finish wasn’t good enough to advance to the finals.

“We didn’t expect to make the finals,” top player J.B. Sines said. “We just wanted to qualify for (the CCS regionals).”

The Eagles shot 420, with Sines leading the way with a 72 and Dave Cline next with 84. Although Sines placed sixth in the field, he didn’t qualify for the final because he was competing in only team play and not as an individual. Individual qualifiers, like Choe, were determined at league tournaments.