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WOMEN’S TENNIS

California Community College State Tennis Championships

LONG BEACH — Freshmen Brittany Bass and Brittnie Furuvald won the doubles title Saturday at At El Dorado Park.

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Bass and Furuvald defeated Jeannie Vatelia and Caroline Houston of Riverside in the final, after topping Megan Kimmer and Jenny Marsden of Chabot in the semifinals, 6-4, 7-5.

The title caps a season in which the Pirates went 18-1 to finish second at the Southern California Dual Team Championships. They were undefeated in Orange Empire Conference play.

TRACK AND FIELD

Big West Conference Multi-Event Championships

NORTHRIDGE — Costa Mesa High product Sharon Day won the heptathlon title Saturday at Cal State Northridge, setting school and conference records with 5,642 points.

Day, the 2005 NCAA high jump champion, shattered the previous Cal Poly record of 5,412 set by Sharon Hanson in 1987.

Idaho’s Manuela Kurrat set the previous Big West mark in 2005 with 5,614 points.

Day had 3,418 points heading into Saturday’s final three events. She added 768 points for her long jump of 18 feet, nine inches, 616 points for her best mark of 122 feet, six inches in the javelin and 840 for her time of two minutes, 18.77 seconds in the 800 meters. Her 5,642 points are also an NCAA Championship automatic mark.

UC Irvine decathletes Kyle Peterson, Trent Richert and Eric Nyberg finished fourth, sixth and eighth, repectively, Saturday.

Peterson, a junior, scored 6,387 points in the two-day event.

Richert and Nyberg, both seniors, had 6,241 and 6,111 points, respectively.

Chris Richardson of Long Beach State won the event (7,461).


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