WEB UPDATE: The season for the Poway American 10- and 11-year-old all-stars came to an end on Wednesday, after it fell 11-0 to Rancho San Diego in five innings.

Poway American ended as the runner-up of the Southern California Division III South Subdivisional tournament. Rancho San Diego now moves on to play the winner of the other Southern California subdivision for a two-out-of-three showdown to determine the state champion.

Rancho San Diego was the defending state champion. According to Poway American Manager Dean Weese, they returned all but one of their players from last year’s team.

“They’re a good hitting team and came at us from the get-go,” Weese said. “We battled the best we could, but came out on the short end.”

After all, he’ll be the defending NCAA Division I singles champion, after finishing a 39-8 season with the Cardinal. He became the first to win an individual championship for the Palo Alto school since 2000.

According to the school, the 2008 Poway High grad is only one of 14 Stanford students to win the singles championship, and the ninth to do so after the NCAA adopted its current program. (Tennis legend John McEnroe accomplished the feat for the school in 1978).

Now on break, Klahn is playing in lots of professional tournaments this summer. He said he plans on not taking any money to maintain his amateur status so that he can continue playing collegiate tennis.

The event is being held this week in Sacramento. Brietta Klein and Adam Larson qualified for the nationals after their finishes in the regionals, held late June in Las Vegas.

Brietta, 12, took third place in the 3,000 meter run with a 13:00 finish.

Adam, 12, finished in fourth place in the discus throw with 67-4, but made it to the nationals after one of the top-three finishers was disqualified, said Coach Peter Gregory, a resident of Rancho Bernardo.

“The Junior Nationals is the highest level they can go,” Gregory said. “It’s an honor for them to be competing at this high level.”

The two PQ Lightning squads will be traveling to different locations for their Amateur Softball Association of America-sponsored tournaments, scheduled for Aug. 2-8.

The 12-under team will travel to Las Cruces, N.M., while the 14-under team will go to Roseville, Calif.

The squads earned their berths in the national tournaments by finishing among the top 14 teams at the Southern California ASA Championships, which were held earlier this month in Lancaster, Calif.

Teams from the Poway Girls Softball League (the 14-Under All Stars) and from the Rancho Bernardo Girls Softball League (10-Under and 12-Under) also qualified for the state tournament, but did not qualify for nationals.

The honor marks another accolade for Dickerson, a soon-to-be junior at Indiana University who was the Big Ten Conference’s hitting leader in batting average, home runs and RBIs his sophomore year.

The team is composed of the top non-draft-eligible players in the country. Dickerson will be a designated hitter and backup first baseman and outfielder.

The Poway American All-Stars won the district crown in the division for 10- and 11-year-old players, while the 4S Ranch All-Stars won the Juniors division (for players ages 13-14) this past weekend.

Both teams move on to the Section 6 Tournament, which features champions from four districts. Their first games are scheduled for Saturday.

The teams are the only local All-Star squads that advanced to higher competition.

The 16-year-old Powegian will be competing in the Gatorade Free Flow Tour Finals, scheduled for Sept. 16-19 in Utah during the Dew Tour’s Toyota Challenge. The winner will earn a chance to compete against professional skaters in the Dew Tour in Las Vegas in October.

Villanueva earned his way to the final last month, when he won a regional skate park competition at the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA in Encinitas.

According to the event’s website, the competition aims to give skaters and bike riders — the tour added a BMX dirt bike competition this year — of all skill levels the opportunity to have fun and compete, while finding top talent. The competition is open to those 21 and under.

The Catalina Water Ski Race, which takes place Saturday, July 17, may not be well-known, but it has a long history and a strong following among water skiers, some who come from as far away as Australia to compete in the event.

The top racers, who can finish the course in less than an hour, reach top speeds of up to 70 mph.

Todd Lackner said that while he has known about the event for a long time — a friend of his family was a competitor for 20-something years — it wasn’t until last year that he decided to compete.

He picked Middlebury College in Vermont, which plays NCAA Division III in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.

Now, as he prepares for his final year in college, McKillop says he knows he made the right choice by going to the smaller school.

This past year, he earned honors both on the gridiron and on the baseball field.

When she played for RB, she was a two-time CIF San Diego Section Player of the Year (2003 and 2005) and led the Broncos to their first-ever CIF section crown in 2003.

At UCLA, she and her teammates won four consecutive NCAA championships. By the time she graduated in 2009, she was named to the NCAA All-Tournament team twice and held a single-season scoring record for the Bruins.

Upon graduation, Gandy joined the national team, helping them win the World Championships in Rome and the World League in Kirishi, Russia, last summer.

Now, Gandy is back in San Diego for the FINA Women’s World League Super Final, which is being played through July 3 at the Coggan Family Aquatic Complex in La Jolla.

In Team USA’s first match, held Monday against Greece, Gandy scored once, contributing to the final 11-9 score.

Five local Little League All-Star teams are ready to take the field this weekend in the District 31 Tournament, which will put the winner one step closer to Williamsport and the Little League World Series.

The district’s majors tournament (for players 11 and 12 years old) starts Saturday, July 3 at Jesmond Dene Park in Escondido. The champion will be crowned at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 13 and will advance to section play.

The district’s local Little League teams are: Poway American, Poway National, Rancho Bernardo, 4S Ranch, and Carmel Mountain Ranch. District 31 also includes teams from Del Mar, Rancho Santa Fe, Escondido, Encinitas, Solana Beach, Valley Center, and Encinitas.

Coaches say Encinitas National is considered the early favorite, after winning the majors division three years running.