Tokay sends three to D1 South, Lodi sends one

Three Tokay golfers and one Lodi golfer qualified for the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I South Tournament with Monday’s round at Tracy Country Club.

With Tokay’s third-place finish in the Tri-City Athletic League Tournament at 507 strokes, golfers Zoe Offield, Aleesa Ohata and Elisa Cabrera qualified to move on, while Lodi’s Desiree Vasquez snagged the last spot while helping the Flames to a fourthplace finish at 538.

The TCAL sends its top two teams to the Division I South tournament, along with the top six golfers not on those teams. Lincoln won, followed by St. Mary’s, and the four locals were part of the top six. Offield led the local contingent with an 80, followed by Ohata at 86, Cabrera at 95 and Vasquez at 103.

Vasquez was beat out by teammate Devin Franklin by a stroke, but Franklin opted out of the D-I tournament due to a heavy class load, leaving the spot to her teammate. Lodi’s top golfer also missed the league tournament to focus on a heavy AP class load.

Tokay’s scores were rounded out by Hannah Hauschildt at 118 and Annika Hauschildt at 128.

“The three girls that made it are happy to move on,” Tokay coach Dale Strawn said. “I expect Zoe and Aleesa to keep going. This was Elisa Cabrera’s first year playing high school golf, so to make it to subsections is pretty good.”

Offield, a senior, made it all the way to the section Masters tournament, where she shot a 74, coming one stroke away from moving on to the NorCal championship.

“She’s peaking at the right time. I’d expect her scores to be pretty good in the next few weeks,” Strawn said. “She’s been working hard. She puts in her time, and earlier on in the year she wasn’t having the success she could have, but it’s coming together. She just has a lot of determination.”

Lodi, which beat Tokay twice in dual matches and finished third in the league standings, was led by Franklin at 102 and Vasquez at 103, then had Catie Newport at 108, Allisa Yabumoto at 110 and Maria

Valenzuela at 114.

Vasquez, a freshman, will be the Flames’ lone representative moving forward.

“Probably a little bit high for her, but not bad for her first TCAL tournament,” Lodi coach Tara Staal said. “She actually adjusted very well. She played some good rounds this season.”

Neither Strawn nor Staal could remember the last time Tokay finished higher than Lodi in the TCAL girls golf tournament.

“Actually, we did OK. We started really strong by beating SM, so if we could have held that it could have been a pretty good season,” Staal said. “But the scores kind of went up as we went along. We have a lot of work to do, but we have a lot of good kids on the team.”