Anteaters retain No. 1 reputation

Coach John Speraw’s UC Irvine men’s volleyball team remains No. 1

in the nation for the second straight week in the USA Today/American

Volleyball Coaches Association poll released Tuesday.

The Anteaters (11-1), who were at No. 13 UC Santa Barbara Tuesday,

split home matches with No. 2 Hawaii last weekend, losing to the

Warriors, 3-1, Friday and winning, 3-0, Saturday. UCI continues on

the road with a match Friday at 12th-ranked Cal State Northridge.

The Anteaters received 14 first-place votes and 238 total points

in this week’s poll. Hawaii follows with 219 points, BYU is third

with 208, Pepperdine is fourth with 193 and Long Beach State fifth

with 165.

USA Today / AVCA Men’s

volleyball poll

(first-place votes in parentheses)

1. UC Irvine (14), 238 pts.; 2. 2. Hawaii, 219; 3. BYU

(1), 208; 4. Pepperdine (1) 193; 5. Long Beach State, 165; 6.

Stanford, 143; 7. Lewis; 134; 8. Penn State, 118; 9. Pacific, 114;

10. Ball State, 111; 11. UCLA, 98; 12. Cal State Northridge, 74; 13.

UC Santa Barbara, 45; 14. Indiana-Purdue, Ft. Wayne, 33; 15.

Loyola-Chicago, 12.

‘Eaters sweep

* MEN’S VOLLEYBALL: The No. 1-ranked UC Irvine men’s vollyeball

team swept No. 13 UC Santa Barbara Tuesday night in Santa Barbara,

30-21, 30-25, 30-26.

Monte Tucker led the Anteaters, 12-1, 5-1 in the Mountain Pacific

Sports Federation, with 15 kills and played at a .609 clip. He also

had four blocks.

The Anteaters outhit the Gauchos by a .430-.370 ration, and

outblocked them, 8-2.

Jimmy Pelzel had 10 kills and eight digs.

UCSB falls to 3-8, 1-5.

Pirates win, 2-1

* JC BASEBALL: Collin Stiltz brought home the game-winning run

with a two-out bunt single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give

host Orange Coast a 2-1 nonconference victory over Long Beach Tuesday

at Wendell Pickens Field.

After seeing their shutout bid spoiled by Long Beach’s two-out hit

by Kevin Price, the Bucs’ Brad Miller got aboard on an error, moved

to second on an errant throw and took third on a passed ball.

Stiltz eventually came up with the bases loaded and two out when

his drag bunt proved decisive.

Jeff Piaskowski singled and eventually scored on Ben Hanna’s

sacrifice fly.

Jason Crissman went 51/3 innings, allowing three hits and no runs.

Bryan Jackson got the win in relief.

Nonconference

OCC 2, Long Beach CC 1

Score by Innings

LBCC 000 000 001

-- 1 6 2

OCC 000 010 001

-- 2 7 0

Baker, Style (7), Garcia (9) and Dahdoul, Estrada.

Crissman, Murdy (6), Treece (8), Jackson (9) and Grant. W -- Jackson,

1-0. L -- Style. 2B -- Blair (LB).

Searle slams Cal Lu

* COLLEGE BASEBALL: Jason Searle of Vanguard University’s was a

one-man wrecking crew Tuesday, slugging a grand slam home run, going

4 for 6 with four runs scored and eight RBI as Vanguard pounded host

Cal Lutheran, 16-11, in a nonconference baseball game.

And he was just one of four bruisers in the VU attack. Justin

Millward was 6 for 6, with two runs and two RBIs. Joe Carnahan and

Jason Brunet were both 4 for 6.

Searle’s bases-clearing home run came in a five-run eighth inning

which pulled Vanguard from an 8-4 deficit, then the Lions scored

seven more in the ninth inning.

Searle finished with two home runs and a double. Also with home

runs were Carnahan and Millward.

Vanguard is 3-2. Cal Lu is 3-1.

Nonconference

Vanguard 16, Cal Lutheran 11

Score by Innings

VU 103 000 057

-- 16 22 4

Cal Lu 002 510 003

-- 11 13 4

Carnahan, Harris (5), Lopez (7), Searle (8) and Bower;

J. Hirsh, M. Hirsh (8), Hassler (9) and Slimak. W- Lopez. L -- M.

Hirsh. 2B -- Searle (VU), Carnahan (VU), Millward (V) 2, Hostetler

(CL), Slimak (CL). HR -- Searle (V), 2, Carnahan (V), Millward (V),

Hostetler (CL).

Lions top Concordia

* WOMEN’S HOOPS: Jennifer Wiulcox (16), Robbin Dittenbir (15) and

Cecilia Josefsson (11) paved the way for Vanguard University’s

women’s basketball team, which dealt host Concordia University a

61-48 Golden State Athletic Conference defeat Tuesday night in

Irvine.

Vanguard improves to 17-7, 12-1 in the GSAC, Concordia falls to

15-10, 4-9.

UCI 12th in Arizona

* COLLEGE GOLF: The UC Irvine men’s golf team finished 12th the

Arizona Intercollegiate tournament that concluded Tuesday at the

Arizona National Golf Club in Tucson.

UCI senior Jeff Coburn finished sixth at 7-under 206, scoring in

the 60s for all three rounds, including a 3-under 68 in Tuesday’s

final round. Junior Vinnie Poncino finished 47th at 217 (71-70-76),

senior Mike Lavery was 57th (66-79-75) at 220, while senior Ryan

Armstrong (72-72-73) and freshman Ryne Rindfleisch (76-71-76) tied

for 68th place at 223.

Arizona won the tournament with a 54-hole total of 23-under 829.

UCI completed the three rounds with a total of 856.

UTEP’s Chris Baryla was the medalist with a 10-under total of 203

on the par-71 course, one shot ahead of Arizona’s Chris Nallen.

Pirates just miss, 5-4

* JC MEN’S TENNIS: Orange Coast College dropped a 5-4

nonconference men’s tennis decision at Palomar Tuesday, once again

victimized by a lack of competitors.

The Pirates (1-1) won three of five singles matches and split a

pair of doubles matches, but forfeited a singles and doubles match.

Nonconference

Palomar 5, OCC 4

Singles -- Chu (OCC) def. Owens, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1; Redondo

(P) def. Haley, 7-5, 6-1; Sands (P) def. Trepte, 6-4, 3-6; Solomon

(OCC) def. Fitzgerald, 7-6, 0-6, 6-3; Le (OCC) def. Kastner, 7-5,

6-4; OCC lost No. 6 singles by default.

Doubles -- Owens-Redondo (P) def. Chu-Le, 9-7;

Trepte-Haley (OCC) def. Sands-Fitzgerald, 8-6; OCC lost No. 3 doubles

by default.

OCC rolls, 7-2

* JC WOMEN’S TENNIS: Orange Coast College’s women’s tennis team

was a 7-2 nonconference winner at Cuyamaca in the season opener,

keyed by the play of Leah Becker and Ashley Nelson in the 1-2 singles

slots.

Nonconference

OCC 7, Palomar 2

Singles -- Becker (OCC) def. Hoffman, 6-4, 6-0; Nelson

(OCC) def. Anderson, 6-3, 6-4; Tanamal (OCC) def. Berzaman; Sessum

(Cuy) def. Silveira, 6-3, 6-0; Moriyama (OCC) def. Witherspoon, 6-2,

6-3; Wenski (OCC) won by default.

Doubles -- Hoffman-Anderson (Cuy) def. Becker-Tanamal,

8-5; Nelson-Sessum (OCC) def. Berzaman-Silveira, 8-2; Moriyama-Wenski

(OCC) won by default.

Deep sea

* TUESDAY’S COUNTS

Newport Landing -- 1 boat, 19 anglers. 7 calico bass, 2

sand bass, 53 sculpin 4 sheephead, 10 perch.