UC Irvine wins title at Cal Poly

The UC Irvine women’s cross country team, with three runners placing

in the top 11, captured the title of the VS Athletics/Cal Poly

invitational in San Luis Obispo Saturday.

The Anteaters finished with 50 points, the See Jane Run club team

was second with 58 and Cal State Fullerton was third with 75 at

Cuesta College.

UCI senior Kim Ramirez was the first collegiate runner and second

overall with a time of 17:54.7 over 5,000 meters. See Jane Run’s

Erika Aklufi won the race in 17:37.6.

The Anteaters’ Marie Nguyen finished seventh (18:33.4), Candice

Proctor was 11th (18:43.6) and Erinn Kim placed 15th (18:53.6). Kim

Handel finished 18th in 18:57.8, Kaleena Yee was 19th in 18:58.8 and

Elaine Gillespie placed 28th in 19:11.3 to complete UCI’s top seven.

Host Cal Poly won the men’s title with 51 points to edge out UCI

(53) and Cal State Fullerton (57). Sean Ricketts, an unattached

runner, won the 8,000-meter race in 25:52.7.

UCI junior Ricky Barnes finished fifth in 26:27.6 and teammate Tom

Whelan was sixth in 26:28.3. The Anteaters’ Andrew Garratt placed

15th (27:01.1), John Kluve was 21st (27:10.3), Tim Heart was 28th

(27:29.0), David Santos was 29th (27:31.3) and Matt Grilli finished

48th (28:10.6) to round out UCI’s top seven.

The Anteaters compete in the Cal State Fullerton invitational

Friday.

Tars win in triple OT

* WATER POLO: Jovan Vranes scored three goals for Newport Harbor

High’s boys water polo team and teammates Brett Auer and Nate

Castillo added two each as the host Sailors edged Los Alamitos, 7-6,

in triple overtime Saturday in nonleague action.

Michael Robinson recorded 11 goalie saves for Newport Harbor

(9-6). Los Al fell to 14-6.

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Nonleague

Newport Harbor 7, Los Alamitos 6

Score by periods

Los Al 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 - 6

Newport 2 1 2 0 1 0 1 -- 7

Los Al -- Davidson 5, Tsim 1. Newport --

Vranes 3, Auer 2, Castillo 2. Saves --

Robinson 11.

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Stanford tops UC Irvine

* WATER POLO: Peter Varellas scored four goals to lead No.

2-ranked Stanford past No. 8 UC Irvine, 10-5, in Mountain Pacific

Sports Federation men’s water polo action Saturday.

The host Cardinal (12-2, 2-0 in the MPSF) built an 8-0 lead early

in the third quarter before UCI senior Rick Merlo scored the first of

his four goals with 2:03 left in that period.

Andrew Dunn scored the other goal for the Anteaters (8-8, 0-2) and

goalie Joe Wynne had nine saves.

UCI hosts Pepperdine at noon today in a nonconference game at the

Anteater Aquatics Complex.

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Mountain Pacific Sports Federation

Stanford 10, UC Irvine 5

Score by Quarters

UC Irvine 0 0 2 3 - 5

Stanford 1 4 3 2 - 10

UCI - R. Merlo 4, Dunn 1. Saves -- Wynne 9.

Stanford - Varellas 4, Azevedo 2, Hopkins 2,

Garton 1, Crum 1. Saves -- Taylor 5.

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UCI sweeps Mustangs

* VOLLEYBALL: UC Irvine senior outside hitter Kelly Wing pounded a

match-high 17 kills and added 14 digs to lead the Anteaters to a

30-23, 30-28, 30-28 Big West Conference women’s volleyball win ayt

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Saturday.

Whitney Pavlik and Trisha White had 14 and 10 digs, respectively,

for the winners, who improve to 13-5, 6-3 in conference. UCI setter

Ashlie Hain had 41 assists. Cal Poly fell to 2-16, 0-9.

‘Eaters rally for win

* SOCCER: Lorne Howlett and Damon Manak scored second-half goals

for UC Irvine’s men’s soccer team Saturday night as the host

Anteaters edged Cal State Fullerton, 2-1, in Big West Conference

action.

Howlett scored off a corner with assists from Brandon Tario and

Brad Evans at the 62:23 mark to tie the game, 1-1, then Manak scored

off a corner with an assist from Doug Franco.

Cameron Rossi recorded 11 goalie saves for UC Irvine (5-8-0, 1-3

in the Big West). Cal State Fullerton fell to 2-7-2, 1-3.