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ANTIOCH, Calif. — After a trial run last year, Antioch Speedway promoter Chad Chadwick will add the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars to select Saturday night programs this season.

The stock cars join IMCA modifieds and sportmods at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds venue.

“We had watched them race in the Midwest,” Chadwick said. “IMCA Stock Cars put on good racing, and we thought they’d be a good class to have here. This is a division that’s going to grow every year.”

The IMCA Speedway Motors weekly racing season is set to start on March 20. Stock Cars will share the spotlight with the modifieds and sportmods on May 29 and Sept. 4.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Ripper Coffee Company will be the primary sponsor of David Gilliland Racing’s Tanner Gray during the ARCA Menards Series season opener at Daytona Int’l Speedway Saturday.

The Lucas Oil 200 Driven by General Tire is the lone scheduled ARCA start this season for Gray as he focuses on his second full-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season in the DGR No. 15 Ford F-150.

Ripper Coffee is part of the growing e-commerce coffee trend and the newly formed company is using motorsports as part of its marketing plan.

Gray is still searching for his first ARCA series victory. He has 14 ARCA starts and one at Daytona last February where he started 11 and finished 16.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Pro modified driver Jason Scruggs is eager for another shot at the $50,000 prize at the second annual CTech Manufacturing World Doorslammer Nationals presented by JEGS. Scruggs qualified second and set low elapsed time of the first round before going out in the second round in the inaugural event.

Scruggs and his family business, ScruggsFarm.com, have also signed on as an event sponsor for the race March 5-7 at Orlando Speed World Dragway.

“You have the best Pro Mod and Pro Stock cars in the world there,” said Scruggs, one of the co-founders and former co-owners of the PDRA. “Drag Illustrated, Wes Buck and Elite Motorsports put on a great deal. With me coming from PDRA through the years, I know what it’s like to put on a race. People don’t really understand how much goes into it; how much thought, preparation and money goes into an event. If everybody can kind of do their part, it makes for a better event. It’s just a cool deal. It’s a good atmosphere and something I want to be involved with.”

Scruggs just returned from preseason testing at Florida’s Bradenton Motorsports Park, where he made multiple passes in the mid-5.60-second range. The conditions were like those Scruggs raced in when he qualified No. 2 in the 33-car field at the inaugural World Doorslammer Nationals, giving Scruggs confidence going into this year’s event.

The World Doorslammer Nationals will be Scruggs’ first race of the season, with plans to attend around half of the 12 scheduled NHRA Pro Mod events.

OCALA, Fla. — Eight past Winter Dirt Games feature winners are set for the battle to commence when the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car season launches Feb. 11-13 at Bubba Raceway Park.

Forty-four cars are projected to compete in the three-night event, representing 14 different states. The record for the most cars to participate in a single Winter Dirt Games USACAMSOIL National Sprint event is 34, which was set on Feb. 20, 2014.

The first three USAC sprint car races ever run were held in the state of Florida in February of 1956, won by Bob Sweikert (Southland Speedway), Chuck Weyant (Jacksonville Speedway) and Pat O’Connor (Medley Speedway).

The inaugural Winter Dirt Games took place at East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla. The series debut at Bubba Raceway Park arrived in 2011. Both events were won by Damion Gardner, the all-time leader in Winter Dirt Games wins with five.

Defending series champion Brady Bacon leads the charge for this year’s crop after sweeping both nights of Winter Dirt Games at Ocala in 2020 to up his total to four all-time Winter Dirt Games victories after previous triumphs in 2014 and 2015, all for Dynamics, Inc.

Robert Ballou is one of only two drivers in this year’s field to have competed in the very first Winter Dirt Games feature in 2010, along with 1999 series champ, Dave Darland. Ballou has nabbed a pair of wins at Ocala, first in his USAC championship season of 2015 and again in 2016, while also notching one at East Bay in 2015. Darland, who has joined the Baldwin/Fox/Curb-Agajanian team for Florida this month, won in 2015 at Ocala.

Prior to Bacon, the most recent driver to score consecutive Winter Dirt Games USAC sprint features was Tyler Courtney.

Courtney won the last two of 2018 at Ocala for the, at the time, new Clauson-Marshall-Newman Racing USAC Sprint team, then proceeded to reel off two-straight with the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midgets at the same track in 2019.

Along with Courtney, Chris Windom (is the only other individual who has won in both USAC National Sprint Car and National Midget competition during Winter Dirt Games at Ocala. Windom, the 2017 USAC Sprint king, won the sprint car opener there in 2019 and followed suit with the Midgets in the 2020 WDG finale. His Hayward Motorsports Sprint team won with the Midget at Ocala in 2020, driven by Tanner Thorson.

Justin Grant, the 2020 USAC Silver Crown champion, captured the 2017 USAC Sprint opener at Ocala, then celebrated victory once again there on the second night in 2019, this time for TOPP Motorsports.

C.J. Leary, one of eight USAC National champions in this year’s Ocala’s USAC sprint car field, led the way to victory in the 2019 WDG closer. He’s joined the team owned by Bill Michael for the 2021 season, which won a record 39 USAC Southwest sprint car features and four consecutive series championships between 2013-’16.

Chase Stockon won the 2018 Ocala opener in his own car, which he stepped out of mid-2020 to race full time for KO Motorsports. The 2019 Jason Leffler Memorial Award winner enters his 10th straight season as a full-time USAC National Sprint Car driver and carries a record 321 consecutive start streak.

Buddy Kofoid, who won the first of two USAC midget features at the track last week, will make his Winter Dirt Games USAC sprint car debut for Chris Dyson Racing.

The entries:

2e        Brent Beauchamp

3r         Kyle Cummins

4          Justin Grant

5          Dave Darland

5g        Briggs Danner

5k        Kent Schmidt

5o        Paul Nienhiser

5s        Chase Stockon

5v        Jesse Vermillion

6          Mario Clouser

7          Timmy Buckwalter

7bc      Tyler Courtney

8m       Kade Morton

9k        Kevin Thomas Jr.

12        Robert Ballou

14        Davey Ray

15        Carson Garrett

17gp    Max Adams

18        Shane Butler

19        Chris Windom

19az    Tanner Thorson

20        Buddy Kofoid

20x      Chayse Hayhurst

20g      Noah Gass

21az    Jake Swanson

22        Chase Johnson

27        Crain Pellegrini Jr.

28        Brandon Mattox

28k      Kory Schudy

33m     Matt Westfall

34        Sterling Cling

34w     Parker Frederickson

39        Matt Goodnight

57        Cole Bodine

61m     Jadon Rogers

69        Brady Bacon

71        Robert Bell

73        Blake Vermillion

74        Drew Rader

75        Dustin Clark

77fr     Ryan Thomas

77m     C.J. Leary

77w     Stevie Sussex

91        Riley Kreisel

One of the top Division I women's golf teams in the country is losing one of the top players in the country.

USC senior Gabriela Ruffels, the 2019 U.S. Women's Amateur champion and runner-up in the same championship last year, announced Wednesday that she plans to forgo the remainder of her college eligibility and turn professional. The news comes a day after the Augusta National Women's Amateur field was released with Ruffels one of just two top-30 amateurs not among the commits.

Ruffels said she plans to make her pro debut later this month at the Gainbridge LPGA, to be held Feb. 25-28 at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club in Orlando, Florida, where Ruffels was born.

"USC has meant the world to me and has been the best decision I've ever made," Ruffels said in a school release. "The past three years at USC have helped me improve not only as a golfer, but as a person and I am forever grateful to my coaches, teammates, support staff and the whole Trojan family for all their support.
 
"As far as my decision to turn professional, it was a super difficult decision to make but I feel as though I am ready and I'm excited to take my game to the professional level. I have been presented with some opportunities and I'm looking forward to seeing how I far I can go with them. I will be rooting on the USC women's golf team from wherever I am in the world. We have an awesome team filled with great players and I wish them the best of luck to go all the way this year."

Ruffels didn't travel with the Trojans, considered one of the favorites to win the NCAA Championship this May, for their spring opener this week in San Diego, instead remaining at her parents' home in Palm Springs. USC, led by individual champion and fifth-year senior Allisen Corpuz, won the event by 24 shots over crosstown rival UCLA and TCU.
 
"Whenever we have a player in our program that has had as much success as Gabi, we know that turning pro is a strong possibility," USC head coach Justin Silverstein said. "We continue to pride ourselves on having an open-line of communication with our players and their families in order to help them make the best decision possible for their future. At this time, Gabi has been presented with opportunities that are simply too good to pass up and we are thrilled that she is going to get the chance to showcase her talents at the highest level.

"Our program has been fortunate to send many players to the pro ranks. Our team and the entire Trojan Family is excited to see Gabi join them."

A second-team All-American as a junior, Ruffels won twice and amassed eight top-10s in her USC career. She was even better in amateur competition, birdieing three of her last four holes to defeat Albane Valenzuela in the final of the 2019 U.S. Women's Amateur. That same summer Ruffels won the North and South Women's Amateur. Last year she finished runner-up to Rose Zhang in her Women's Am title defense. She was a career-best sixth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking at the time of her decision.

Ruffels fared well in her recent professional starts. She played three majors last year, missing the cut at the Women's Open before tying for 15th at the ANA Inspiration and sharing 13th at the U.S. Women's Open. She also placed fifth at the Symetra Tour Championship last November.

A native Australian, Ruffels, 20, has an older brother, Ryan, who plays on the Korn Ferry Tour. Her parents, Ray and Anna-Maria, were professional tennis players with her mom winning a national championship at USC. Gabi also played tennis growing up, becoming Australia's top-ranked junior by age 12, before deciding to focus on golf a couple of years later.

The cabinet is not left bare by any means at USC, which still has three players ranked No. 31 or better in the WAGR in Corpuz, Amelia Garvey and Alyaa Abdulghany. The Trojans also welcomed two top freshmen this spring in Brianna Navarrosa and Christine Wang, added Pepperdine transfer Alexa Melton and still have junior Malia Nam, who was a past Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.

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USC might have been playing its first tournament in nearly a year, but that didn’t keep the Lady Trojans from earning a third straight team title Tuesday in San Diego.

After winning its final two events last spring before the season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, USC picked up where it left off by capturing the Lamkin San Diego Invitational by 24 shots over crosstown rival UCLA and TCU.

“We’ve got a little streak going,” USC head coach Justin Silverstein said.

It was a dominating performance by the Trojans, who finished at 16 over and placed all five players in the top 16. Fifth-year senior Allisen Corpuz shot 2 under to earn her first 54-hole individual title. Her only other college win came at this very event when it included just an 18-hole stroke-play portion in addition to match play.

Silverstein calls Corpuz, who is finishing up a graduate degree, one of the smartest and hardest-working players in program history.

“This isn’t surprising at all,” Silverstein said. “She’s as good at home as anyone we’ve ever had. She does a great job managing her game and she’s earned a lot of freedom and been given a little more leash than most with how she works on her game because generally it works. I learn a lot of stuff from her on a daily basis, just how she goes about her business. She’s very organized with her game and her thoughts. It’s really cool to see.”

Added Corpuz: “It was a great way to open up the season.”

USC also got significant contributions from junior Katherine Muzi, who had played just two events in her Trojan career before this week, and freshman Brianna Navarrosa, one of the top recruits in the country. Muzi finished seventh while Navarrosa tied for eighth.

“When we recruit kids, especially at that level, there’s a lot of pressure on them coming in because we expect them to start and compete and help us win right away,” Silverstein said. “We don’t typically specialize in projects here.”

Navarrosa is buying in early while Muzi has certainly been an exception to the rule. After a couple of years mostly on the bench, she’s taken off in recent months, winning a Golfweek amateur event last fall and losing in a playoff in a Cactus Tour event last August. Silverstein said Muzi has gained more than two shots a round on the greens since she arrived in Los Angeles and is now one of the team’s best putters.

Seniors Alyaa Abdulghany and Amelia Garvey, two top-31 amateurs in the world, placed T-10 and 16^th, respectively, in the spring opener for USC, which still has some talent back home in junior Malia Nam, a former Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, Pepperdine transfer Alexa Melton and Christine Wang, another highly regarded recruit.

“In the history of this program, we’ve never been as deep as we are right now,” Silverstein said.

Another name that also didn’t travel with the team to San Diego was 2019 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Gabriela Ruffels, the world’s sixth-ranked amateur, who announced Wednesday that she's turning pro.

"USC has meant the world to me and has been the best decision I've ever made," Ruffels said in a school release. "The past three years at USC have helped me improve not only as a golfer, but as a person and I am forever grateful to my coaches, teammates, support staff and the whole Trojan family for all their support. As far as my decision to turn professional, it was a super difficult decision to make, but I feel as though I am ready and I'm excited to take my game to the professional level. I have been presented with some opportunities and I'm looking forward to seeing how I far I can go with them.

"I will be rooting on the USC women's golf team from wherever I am in the world. We have an awesome team filled with great players and I wish them the best of luck to go all the way this year."

Even without Ruffels, Silverstein is very high on his team’s NCAA Championship chances.

“We know we have a target on our back,” Silverstein said. “But we also have such high expectations of ourselves, no matter what lineup we throw out, no matter what mix of players, we expect to go win tournaments. We work really hard at home, we work really smart at home and we’re seeing a lot of improvement. … We feel like we have a lot of internal momentum with player development and I think it’s showing in our WAGR rankings, so there’s a lot of self-belief within the walls of Heritage Hall. And if we keep working, there’s a lot of special stuff we can do.”

Stark's stark performance

Maja Stark has barely had time to find her footing in college golf.

The Oklahoma State sophomore first arrived in Stillwater from Sweden last January, but she managed to get in just two events before the season was scrapped. She only played twice last fall, too, because of pandemic-related issues.

Yet, in just six starts now, Stark has had no problems adjusting to the college game. She has two wins and a runner-up, her most recent victory coming Tuesday at the Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate in Sarasota, Florida.

“The way she’s playing right now, she’s on a different level,” Oklahoma State head coach Greg Robertson said. “She looks as good as anybody I’ve seen. She overpowers the golf course and just has complete control of the golf ball right now.”

Stark, arguably one of the longest players in women’s college golf (100 mph swing speed, 270-yard average drive) shot 15 under to win by six shots while helping the Cowgirls to a two-shot team win over talented Ole Miss at The Founders Club. After back-to-back 66s to open her tournament, Stark hit three balls in the water on Tuesday – and she still shot 69 thanks to seven birdies.

“It was not as smooth a round, but I still was able to get it done,” Stark said.

Stark, the world’s eighth-ranked amateur, has handled adversity well over the last year. After winning the Hurricane Invitational last spring in just her second college start, she didn’t play again for 20 weeks. Then she rattled off four straight top-10s in pro events back in Sweden.

When it came time to return to school, Stark decided to stay home and compete in the European Ladies Team Championship in September. With the Cowgirls’ fall season up in the air, Robertson fully supported the decision, which paid off for Stark, who helped Sweden to its third straight title in the event.

But when it came time to head back to the U.S., a positive COVID-19 result kept Stark away a little longer. She was able to return in late October for Oklahoma State’s final two events of the fall and then tied for 13^th at the U.S. Women’s Open in December. She’s now gone second-win to begin the spring.

“She’s done a great job of overcoming all that,” Robertson said.

The rest of the team has followed suit. Oklahoma State began the fall by finishing ninth at Oklahoma’s event. They then only fielded a roster of three players at Texas’ home tournament before placing third at their own event, eight back of Baylor, which has won four times – each time with Oklahoma State in the field.

Even with All-American Isabella Fierro sitting out both spring events with a wrist injury, the Cowgirls has responded, finishing runner-up at Trinity Forest before their statement win in Florida.

“We’ve been kind of waiting for them to click, and they certainly did this week,” Robertson said. “They didn’t worry about [Isabella being out] and just focused on what they needed to do. That was probably the thing we were most proud of is they didn’t use that as an excuse or let that bother them and just went out and played well.

“There are going to be some road bumps this year and everybody’s going to run into some issues at some point, so whoever handles those things the best are the ones who are going to come out on top.”

Added Stark: “This team can be super good. We didn’t perform as well as we could have for a long time. Obviously, we miss Isabella, but we have so many other amazing players. … This team can absolutely win nationals.”

PGA Tour University update

We have a new member of the top 15 in the latest PGA Tour U rankings: Duke senior Adrien Pendaries.

Coming off a third-place finish last week at the Sea Best Invitational, Pendaries moved up 20 spots, from No. 35 to No. 15. Of course, the top 15 players after the NCAA Championship in May earn status on various PGA Tour tours. Nos. 1-5 get Korn Ferry Tour status this summer while the rest will be able to play this year on the Mackenzie Tour.

The PGA Tour U race really heats up this weekend and next week. Georgia's Davis Thompson and Auburn's Jovan Rebula will play this weekend at the Gators Invitational while Oklahoma State's Austin Eckroat and Oklahoma teammates Quade Cummins and Garett Reband will tee it up beginning Sunday at the All-American in Houston. Seven top-15 guys, including No. 2 Chun An Yu of Arizona State, will go head to head at The Prestige, which runs Monday-Wednesday in Palm Springs.

(Check out PGATour.com's Honor Roll for more PGA Tour U news.)

Here is a look at the updated ranking:

• 1. John Pak, Florida State
• 2. Chun An Yu, Arizona State
• 3. Austin Eckroat, Oklahoma State
• 4. Davis Thompson, Georgia
• 5. Sandy Scott, Texas Tech
• 6. Quade Cummins, Oklahoma
• 7. Garett Reband, Oklahoma
• 8. McClure Meissner, SMU
• 9. Trevor Werbylo, Arizona
• 10. Jovan Rebula, Auburn
• 11. Hunter Eichhorn, Marquette
• 12. Kyle Hogan, Texas Tech
• 13. Tim Widing, San Francisco
• 14. Devon Bling, UCLA
• 15. Adrien Pendaries, Duke
• 16. Cooper Dossey, Baylor
• 17. Michael Feagles, Illinois
• 18. Christopher Gotterup, Rutgers
• 19. Spencer Ralston, Georgia
• 20. Matthias Schmid, Louisville
• 21. Jack Trent, UNLV
• 22. Graysen Huff, Auburn
• 23. Hunter Wolcott, Tennessee
• 24. Joshua McCarthy, Pepperdine
• 25. Mason Andersen, Arizona State

For full ranking, click here.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Like his experiment with a 48-inch shaft in his driver, Bryson DeChambeau made headlines last month when he said he would try to drive the green at the par-5 sixth hole at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

“If I play this year I will definitely do it,” DeChambeau told Golf.com last month. “No. 6 at Bay Hill is one of those I’ve been eyeing. I think I can do some pretty cool things on it.”

The sixth hole at Bay Hill is listed at 590 yards but DeChambeau could cut the corner of the lake with a drive that would need to carry around 340 yards, which is well within the 27-year-old’s range. During the final round last year DeChambeau’s drive at No. 6 carried exactly 340 yards, according to ShotLink. He made par on the hole.

On Wednesday, defending Bay Hill champion Tyrrell Hatton was asked his thoughts on DeChambeau potentially driving the green.

“It would be some effort,” Hatton laughed. “I know that’s not anywhere near my locker. If he can do it and he pulls it off in tournament ... fair play to him.”

Hatton pointed out how demanding the tee shot would be beyond the 340 yards of carry that would be required to avoid the giant lake that frames the left side of the hole.

“There’s not really a bailout. It would take a very brave man to do it and it would be interesting to see if he can pull it off,” Hatton said.

John Daly famously made an 18 on the sixth hole in 1998 at Bay Hill trying to cut the same corner.