Two Breakers advance to CIF Individuals
Two Laguna Beach golfers earned top-five finishes Wednesday as the 2011 Golden West League boys’ golf tournament came to an end at El Dorado Park in Long Beach.
Andrew Palmer finished third and teammate Tim Peterson was fifth. Palmer and Peterson made first-team all-league and advanced to play in the first round of the CIF Individuals tournament May 16 at Skylinks Golf Course in Long Beach.
Palmer and Peterson both shot 74 and Mossimo Giau shot 81 at the prelims tournament Monday at Los Lagos Golf Course in Costa Mesa.
Jake Knapp of Estancia won the league’s individual title.
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Boys’ Tennis
Laguna had all three of its singles players and doubles teams in Thursday’s Orange Coast League tournament final, which was played at the Laguna courts.
Thursday’s singles semifinals pitted Laguna teammates Benito Romeo and Teague Hamilton against one another. The winner of that match advanced to take on the winner of the match between Laguna’s Jake Michaels and Costa Mesa’s Alex Adams.
One of the two doubles semifinals has Laguna’s No. 2 team of Austin Loomis/Owen Weber going up against its No. 3 team of Taylor Davidson/Nick Le. The other semifinal has the Breakers’ top team of Hutton McKenna/Morgan Lebby taking on Costa Mesa’s No. 1 team of Benny Quinonez/Tam Le.
Results from Thursday’s league finals weren’t available at press time.
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Swimming
Laguna athletes advanced from Tuesday’s Orange Coast League prelims to Thursday’s league finals at Costa Mesa High.
“We looked very strong in prelims and had many considerable time drops that shocked some of the swimmers,” Laguna Coach Kari Johnson said. “I look forward to them swimming even faster on Thursday.
“Our goal is to be league champions for the third (boys) and fourth (girls) year in a row.”
Turning in outstanding swims Tuesday for Laguna were Billy Wild, who established two school and meet records in the 200 individual medley (two minutes, 2.23 seconds) and 100 butterfly (53.60); Spencer Dodson in the 200 free (1:55.68) and 100 breaststroke (1:09.02); Nile Koegel in the 50 free (23.41); Erik Henrikson in the 50 free (23.50, new CIF cut); Tyler Mancuso in the 100 fly (57.91, new CIF cut); Nolan McConnell in the 100 free (50.60) and 100 backstroke (58.52); Nicky Brunner in the 100 free (52.42); Jordan Wills in the 100 back (1:02.23, new CIF cut); Tommy Renner in the 200 IM (2:11.39, new CIF cut) and 100 breast (1:07.97, new CIF cut); Paige Watroba in the 200 IM (2:28.89, new CIF cut); Yoshi Andersen in the 50 free (25.87) and 100 free 56.38); Lila Vera in the 100 fly (58.39) and 100 back (1:00.27); Taylor Capobianco in the 100 free (57.96) and Melena Masson in the 500 free (5:28.19).
Results from Thursday’s league finals weren’t available at press time.
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Track and Field
Laguna was well-represented Thursday at the Orange Coast League finals at Estancia High.
The following Breakers advanced to the finals: girls’ 4 x 100 meter relay team; boys’ 4 x 100 meter relay team; Carly Savage, Brielle Budroe, Natasha Strickland, Marisa Merchant, Eliza Romero, Grace Clark, Kayla Baskevitch and Anya Miller, girls’ 1,600 meters; Ryan Jones and Jeff White, boys’ 1,600 meters; Moriah Berger, Jessie Bunting and Monica White, girls’ 100 meter hurdles; Greg Farnes and Nile Terry, boys’ 110 meter hurdles; Tori Toma and Lola Cant, girls’ 400 meter dash; Joe Rousseau and Kevin Tovar, boys’ 400 meter dash; Tessa Hopper, Christa French and Hannah Jonus, girls’ 100 meter dash; Marisa Merchant and Beverly Ronses, girls’ 800 meters; Tyler Nichols, Alec Toro, Danny Traub and Ryan Jones, boys’ 800 meters; Hannah Jonus and Monica White, girls’ 300 meter hurdles; Miguel Jaimes, Spencer Anderson and Greg Farnes, boys’ 300 meter hurdles; Tori Toma, girls’ 200 meter dash; Jordan Glenn and Reece Barton, boys’ 200 meter dash; Brielle Budroe, Carly Savage, Nathasha Strickland, Grace Clark, Eliza Romero, Kayla Baskevitch and Anya Miller, girls’ 3,200 meters; Jeff White, Matt Neev, Stone Riff, Ryans Jones, Timmy Williams and Mitch Kimball, boys’ 3,200 meters; girls’ 4 x 400 meter relay team; boys’ 4 x 400 meter relay team; Avery Crowl, Joey Gallo, Bryce Williams and Devin Kent, boys’ high jump; Avery Crowl, Nicholas Bevilaqua, Donovan Tetsuka and Bryce Williams, boys’ long jump; Avery Crowl, Donovan Tetsuka, Bryce Williams, Nicholas Bevilaqua and Joey Gallo, boys’ triple jump; Jed Christiensen, Ben Hanson and Ricky Delatorre, boys’ shot put; Jed Christensen, Ben Hanson and Ricky Delatorre, boys’ discus; Lauren Montgomery, Amanda Gallo, Kelsey Day, Alexandra Menkes, Marlee Grosher and Christianne Kinder, girls’ high jump; Jacky McMahon, Lola Cowie, Sam Knapp and Marlee Grosher, girls’ long jump; Lola Cowie, Sam Knapp, Christa French and Marlee Grosher, girls’ triple jump; Samantha Sullivan, Clara Ross, Jane Wallin and Sam Garner, girls’ shot put; Samantha Sullivan, Jane Wallin, Clara Ross and Sam Garner, girls’ discus.
Results from Thursday’s league finals weren’t available at press time.