Stockdale haters, turn away: This is another Mustang-heavy post. Can't help it when the same school keeps coming up with the goods.

The Central Section golf champion will be decided right here in Kern County on Thursday at Seven Oaks. That also happens to be the home course of Stockdale junior Pete Fernandez, who was fifth in the tournament last year before he moved on through the Southern Cal regional and on to state, where he placed second.

Pete should have a good advantage on the course over the out-of-area contenders, like Clovis West's Michael Weaver, Clovis East's Bryson Dechambeau and Porterville's Nate Jessup, but the Central Section does have a remedy for that — if the course is private (like Seven Oaks), no players, even if they're members, can play the course for two weeks leading up to the high school tournament. That ought to level the playing field a little bit, though I'd still be silly not to consider Fernandez among the favorites.

Besides determining the championship, the other dramatic thing to do at these section golf events is count to 12. The low 12 rounds — not including golfers from Clovis West and Porterville, who have already qualified as teams — move on to the SoCal regional, which is in Murrieta next Wednesday. That means you've got to shoot low, and you've got to finish well — if there's a tie, scorecard playoffs favor golfers who had lower back-nine scores.

Other locals to keep an eye on (last year eight of the 12 qualifiers were from Bakersfield: Stockdale's Alex Marina and Bryce Keene; Bakersfield's Conner Huser; Centennial's Manav Shah; Frontier's Chase Goodvin; Liberty's Richard Gilkey, Rufie Fessler and Max Schmidt; and Garces' Stephen Harmer, Riley Scott and Gunner Kirschenmann.

— On another note, Stockdale had a pretty successful showing on its Super Tuesday that I posted about earlier this week. The Mustangs' boys tennis team lost its section championship 6-3 to Clovis West, but the diamond sports made up for it with semifinal wins at home. The softball team blanked Tri-River Athletic Conference champion Fresno-Central 4-0 and the baseball team scored four times in the sixth inning to stun Fresno-Bullard 4-3. Both move on to championship games Thursday (softball at home) and Friday (baseball on the road, either at Clovis or Clovis West) at 4:30 p.m.

— After these two days of championship action, though, the spring sports season really starts to wind down. Section competition finishes Friday night with that baseball game, then there's the regional golf, state track next weekend (which I promise we'll discuss plenty in the coming week) and then state golf the following week. That's it, folks. Enjoy the next couple of weeks, because it'll be a long wait for more prep action.