MURRIETA ---- Dozens of golfers finished their rounds in the dark at the North County Conference girls golf tournament at The SCGA Course on Tuesday, leaving officials scrambling to come to a consensus on a fair way to determine team and individual champions for the three leagues in the conference.

Still, for players such as two-time CIF San Diego Section individual champion Rachel Morris of Carlsbad High, Danielle Frasier of La Costa Canyon and Sandy Choi of Torrey Pines, the day served as a dress rehearsal for the CIF WSCGA Regional Tournament, which will be held at The SCGA Course on Nov. 16.

"I wasn't planning on coming out for a practice round, so this was a good chance for me to see what clubs to hit and get used to the course," said Morris, a senior who won the CIF SCGA Regional title here as a freshman.

Frasier was playing in a group with Choi, a freshman, whose 5-under-par 67 at Admiral Baker Golf Course on Monday gave her the low score in the first day of the tournament.

Both players said they struggled with their putting on Tuesday, but picked up a little bit of local knowledge that could help them if they make it to the regional tournament in two weeks.

"They were bumpy and bounced a lot," Frasier said. "I had a lot of putts bounce off line. I just putted awful today. ... I hit the ball pretty well, I just couldn't putt."

Torrey Pines, with Choi, is ranked No. 1 in San Diego County. The Falcons are considered a strong candidate to make it to the CIF WSCGA Regional as a team.

The top three teams in the regional tournament advance to the CIF State Meet.

Choi said she has practiced on The SCGA Course, but this was her first competitive round.

"The greens were really hard," she said. "They were really fast and very different from Admiral Baker."

The shotgun start on Tuesday was scheduled for noon but was moved up about 10 minutes. That still wasn't enough time to get players off the course by 5:15 p.m. when sunlight was rapidly disappearing. Some players didn't tee of on their final hole until after 5:15 p.m., leaving them playing essentially in the dark.

The first round of the tournament at Admiral Baker was completed as darkness settled in, but rounds stretched over 5 hours, 30 minutes on Tuesday.

Morris said she had trouble putting because of the darkness on her next-to-last hole, No. 5, but then knocked in a 5-foot putt for birdie on her final hole of the day, No. 6.

"I came out even," said Morris, who shot a 3-under 69, matching her first-round score, but will have to wait to be certified as the Palomar League champion.

Tournament director and La Costa Canyon coach Steve Armstrong said that the Avocado and Palomar league team and individual results would be finalized on Wednesday. Valley League representative Dean Baldridge said that players from his league were able to complete the tournament.

"We got everybody in," he said.

Tracey Huynh of Mt. Carmel shot 82-79 ---- 161 to claim the Valley League individual title. The Sundevils were the team champion with a two-day total of 888.

Don Hartley, the Carlsbad coach and Palomar League rep, said that one of the options would be to throw out the final four holes for the purpose of determining the individual champion and individual medalists, calling the 14 holes "a common denominator." The top six players get medals.

Hartley said that the team champion would almost certainly be based on the team score from the first round and that all-league selections would be chosen on results from the season and the first round of the North County Conference tournament.

"Today is not going to count for anything except for medals," Hartley said.