Skyline and San Diego Mesa to Play for Team Championship

The Hyundai California Community College Women's Badminton Championships will be held this Thursday through Saturday in Hart Gymnasium at Irvine Valley College. This is the second straight year that the event has been at Irvine Valley.

The team championship will be played on Thursday, May 10, at 1 p.m. The top team from Northern California, Skyline College, will meet the top team from the Southern California, San Diego Mesa College, for the title.

This is Skyline's first year of competition in women's badminton. The Trojans finished the regular season with a record of 9-1 and won the Coast Conference. They received an automatic bid to the state final. San Diego Mesa, which is the defending state champion, moved into this year's title match by defeating Pasadena City in a regional matchup last week. The Olympians went undefeated in the Orange Empire Conference and finished the regular season with a record of 13-1.

The individual singles and doubles championships will also be held at Irvine Valley. They will start at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 11. The first three rounds will be played on Friday. The tournaments will conclude on Saturday, May 12. Semifinal rounds will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday with the championship matches in both singles and doubles to follow. Women‚s badminton is in its second year as a community college sport.