Corona del Mar opens with bang

* TENNIS: The Corona del Mar High boys tennis team opened its

season with a strong statement Tuesday, dominating visiting

Brentwood, 16-2, in a nonleague match at CdM.

“We’ve been thinking about this lineup for two months and it

worked,” said veteran CdM Coach Tim Mang, who deployed standouts

Garrett Snyder and Carsten Ball with separate doubles partners.

“We knew they’d stack their doubles and they did. But we split up

our best two doubles players (Snyder and Ball), because we knew they

couldn’t beat us with this lineup,” said Mang, who noted he was

surprised by the lopsided margin, even with the absence of

Brentwood’s No. 1 singles player, who injured his back in a recent

tournament.

The victory avenged a 10-8 semifinal loss to the Eagles in the CIF

Division V Playoffs last spring.

“I thought (CdM and Brentwood) would be the top two teams in CIF,”

said Mang, whose Sea Kings return to the Division I ranks this

season. Mang said Brentwood is set to compete in Division II.

Sophomore Spencer Reitz won all 18 games at No. 3 singles, joining

singles sweeps by teammates Issei Saida and Wesley Miller.

Snyder, a senior, teamed with junior Brennan Roberts to win 18 of

21 doubles games, while Ball, a sophomore, paired with senior Bryan

Warsaw to do the same.

*--*

Nonleague

CdM 16, Brentwood 2

Singles -- Saida (CdM) def. Elson, 6-2, def. Bowman, 6-4, def. Goldfarb, 6-2; Miller (CdM), won, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2; Reitz (CdM) won, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. Doubles -- Snyder-Roberts (CdM) def. Ryan-Freeman, 6-1, def. Karsh-Normington, 6-0, def. Patak-Riordan, 6-2;

Ball-Warsaw (CdM) won, 6-3, 6-0, 6-0; Nguyen-Gingold (CdM) lost, 0-6, 4-6, won, 7-6

*--*

Pirates fall, 14-6

* BASEBALL: Santa Ana College banged out 15 hits and scored nine

runs in the first four innings en route to a 14-6 Orange Empire

Conference baseball victory at Orange Coast Tuesday.

Ryan Mathes had a solo homer for Orange Coast and the Pirates

closed the gap to 9-5 with three in the sixth inning, but Santa Ana

came back with five more in the last three innings.

Coast falls to 8-7-1, 0-3 in the OEC. The Bucs host three-time

defending state champion Riverside Thursday.

*--*

Orange Empire Conference

Santa Ana 14, OCC 6

Score by Innings

Santa Ana 230 400 203 -- 14 15 3

OCC 020 003 100 -- 6 8 3

Arizmendi, Tyson (6),Tundis (7), Arnold

(9) and Zerega, Capon (7); Treece, Hart

(4), Boyd (7) and Grant, Hicks (9). W

-- Arizmendi, 3-1. L -- Treece, 2-3. 2B

-- Restrepo (SA), Flowers (SA), Zerega

(SA), Holton (SA), Jackson (OCC), Grant

(OCC). HR -- Harris (SA), Mathes (OCC)

*--*

Sailors swinging

GOLF: Michael Benvenutti shot 3-over-par 39 to capture medalist

honors and lead Newport Harbor High to a 209-225 nonleague nine-hole

lead over visiting Canyon at Big Canyon Country Club Tuesday.

Davis Pemstein (41), Rhett Palmer (41), Brandon Sowers (43) and

Jeff Lerner (45) rounded out the scorers for the Sailors, who host

Mission Viejo today at 3 p.m. at Santa Ana Country Club.

UCI falls, 7-0

* TENNIS: UC Irvine’s men’s tennis team dropped a 7-0

nonconference decision to Virginia Tuesday on the UCI campus.

Freshman Eric Yandoc was the lone Anteater to take a singles match

into the third set.

*--*

Nonconference

Virginia 7, UCI 0

Singles -- Stewart (V) def. Endrikat, 6-3, 6-1; Duquette (V) def. Morton, 6-3, 6-2; Rizza (V) def. Biorkman, 6-3, 6-2; Gonyer (V) def. Surapol, 6-1, 6-2; Nolen (V) def. Yandoc, 0-6, 6-1, 6-4; Rozek (V) def. Bormand, 6-2, 6-0. Doubles --

Stewart-Duquette

(V) def. Endrikat-Biorkman, 8-5; Gonyer-Rizza (V) def. Hekmat-Surapol, 8-3; Williams-Yandoc (UC) def. Cohen-Nolen, 98-7

*--*

Vanguard splits

* SOFTBALL: Vanguard University’s softball team split a

doubleheader with host Azusa Pacific Tuesday in Golden State Athletic

Conference play, taking the nightcap, 9-2, after dropping a 6-2

verdict in the opener.

Ashley Mauro and Lisa Jackson each went 2 for 4 with a double, and

Jackson, Celina Camarillo and Rachel Rolle each had two RBIs. Jill

Jeranko also went 2 for 4 in the 11-hit attack to back up Krystal

Keltner’s six-hitter. Keltner is now 5-0.

Also, with triples were Rolle and Jeranko.

Mauro and Jill Jessen each doubled in the opener, but that was

half of Vanguard’s offensive output.

Vanguard is now 10-4, 2-3 in the GSAC.

Trio of 40s help Eagles

* GOLF: Three Estancia High golfers carded 40s on the par-36 El

Dorado Park Golf Course Tuesday to lead Estancia to a four-stroke

lead over host Long Beach Millikan.

Jason Cassidy, Marcus Sostak and Bryan Brown all shot 40 for the

Eagles, who won, 207-211. Jason Les (43) and Greg Les (44) also

scored for the Eagles in both team’s first match of the season.

Austin Serr carded a 46 for Estancia.

Anteaters felled, again

* VOLLEYBALL: Long Beach State’s seventh-ranked men’s volleyball

team dealt No. 4 UC Irvine a 30-27, 30-22, 28-30, 30-23 Mountain

Pacific Sports Federation defeat Tuesday night in the Pyramid,

dropping UCI to 14-5, 7-5 in the MPSF. UCI avoided a sweep in the

third game behind the play of Jimmy Pelzel, who had nine of his 15

kills.

CdM tied after nine

* GOLF: Corona del Mar High’s boys golf team and Foothill are

tied, 186-186, after nine holes on the par-35 front nine at Newport

Beach Country Club Tuesday.

Foothill’s Ryan Citralla was Tuesday’s medalist with a 34.

CdM was led by Nick Sherman (36), Tim Frohling and Brad Chamberlin

(both with 37s) and 38s by Rob Ury and Ben Tilsen. Sherman birdied

the par-4, 430-yard fifth along with the par-4, 350-yard seventh and

had 13 putts.

Sage Hill falls, 12-6

* TENNIS: Sage Hill School’s boys tennis team dropped a

nonleague match to visiting Laguna Beach Tuesday, 12-6.

Greg Solobko swept his three singles matches at No. 2 doubles

while Anthony Milovantsev won two of three. Lightning Coach A.G.

Longoria said Solobko could move up to No. 1 singles soon.

*--*

Nonleague

Lag. Beach 12, Sage Hill 6

Singles -- Milovantsev (SH), lost to Schmitz, 6-4; def. Contreras, 7-5; def. Codini, 6-2; Solobko (SH) won, 6-1, 7-5, 7-6; Cordier (SH) lost, 6-4, 6-2, 6-0. Doubles -- Demirjan-Roeser (SH) lost to Ferguson-Tran, 6-2; def. Paxton-Koucceuic, 7-5; lost to

Bernard-Harris, 6-1; Montakab-Kuran (SH), lost, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2; Livingston-Baskin (SH) lost, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1

*--*

UCI women victorious

* TRACK AND FIELD: The UC Irvine women’s track and field team

won the All-Cal Challenge Cup at UC Riverside Saturday, while the

Anteater men’s team placed second.

The women compiled 199 points in winning 11 events, well ahead of

runner-up UC Santa Barbara (159.5) and third-place UC Riverside

(155). UC San Diego collected 142.5 points.

Sophomore Erin Curtis was a triple winner for the Anteaters,

topping the women’s field in the 100 meters (12.27), the 200 (24.86)

and the pole vault (11-7).

Sophomore Suzanne Purmort won the 400 (57.88) and the 400 hurdles

(1:03.44). Her hurdles time was the ninth-fastest in UCI history.

Senior Wendy Chan win the 800 (2:15.28) and the 1,500 (4:41.86), while junior Anmarie Turpin was first in the high jump (5-6) and the

long jump (18-2 1/2).

Junior Jenny Liou won the 3,000 steeplechase (11:20.79) and UCI won the 1,600 relay in 3:55.48.

UCI men’s winners were: Darrel Tozier in the 800 (1:53); freshman

Ricky Barnes in the 1,500 (3:56.38); sophomore Kenny Vinh in the 110

high hurdles (14.78); sophomore Scott Jarvis in the 400 hurdles

(54.51); sophomore Patrick Grogan in the triple jump (45-6 1/2); and

junior Jon Stewart in the javelin (185-6).