Bruin digest

James Lee, who signed a letter of intent to attend UCLA next
year, won the 2004 AJGA Polo Golf Junior Classic last Sunday in a
23-hole match play competition at Sea Island, Ga. Lee defeated
David May of Auburn, N.Y., by making par on the 23rd hole. May had
defeated Lee in the same tournament last year in the Round of 16.
Lee, a La Habra native, took an early two-shot lead after just four
holes, yet May eventually came back to square the match with a
birdie on the 15th hole. After both players drained 15-foot putts
on the 18th hole to extend the match, the two players halved four
holes until Lee finally won the match on the 23rd hole. “I
thought I was going to lose, but fortunately I was able to grind
along,” Lee said in a statement afterwards. “I got very
lucky, but I am extremely happy with how I played this week.”
After two rounds of stroke play, Lee was tied for 14th. He won four
rounds in match play before taking on May in the finals. UCLA had
two other signees from the class of 2005 in the tournament as well.
Erik Flores lost in the first round after finishing tied for fourth
in stroke play, while Lucas Lee also fell in the first round after
placing tied for sixth in stroke play.

FOOTBALL: USC offensive coordinator Norm Chow
is reportedly a top candidate for Stanford’s head coaching
vacancy, which became open after the school fired Buddy Teevens on
Monday. A Stanford spokesman said the school would not comment on
the search process, but USC coach Pete Carroll said he’d do
whatever possible to help the 58-year-old Chow land a head coaching
job if he wanted it. Chow has not held a head coaching position
since 1970-72 when he ran the program at Waialua High School in
Hawaii. Since then, he has been an assistant at BYU for 27 years
and North Carolina State for one year before moving on to USC.

GYMNASTICS: The UCLA women’s gymnastics
team is the preseason No. 1 team for a fifth straight year in a
coach’s poll that came out Wednesday. The Bruins received 15
of the 26 first-place votes and 608 total points, 45 more than
second-ranked Georgia. Two All-Americans return to the a team that
also boasts one of the best incoming freshman classes in the
country. The team is scheduled to face 12 of the preseason Top-25
teams, three of which are in the top five of the nation. They kick
off their season Jan. 7 at No. 5 Utah.

Compiled by staff and wire reports.