Shadowlands

Five Years Ago

No. 1 Newport Harbor High’s girls volleyball team swept two-time

defending national champions and Back Bay rival Corona del Mar, 15-4,

16-14, 15-8. Misty May had 19 kills and Melissa Schutz added 13. Kelly

Campbell led CdM with eight kills, two assists and one block.

Estancia’s girls volleyball team opened it’s Pacific Coast League season

with a 15-11, 4-15, 15-9, 10-15, 15-13, victory over University. Cyndi

Richards led the team with 15 kills.

Newport Harbor’s football team upset the CIF Southern Section’s No.

1-ranked team, Savanna, 22-15. Brian Johnson returned the opening kickoff

94 yards for a touchdown. Tom Eaton led a ferocious defense with two

sacks.

Costa Mesa’s football team blew out Santa Ana, 63-20, behind Dewayne

Crenshaw’s 252 rushing yards.

Orange Coast College’s football team lost to No. 1 Mt. San Antonio

College, 46-24. OCC’s Chris Jackson had two touchdown receptions in a

losing effort.

Former Orange Coast College basketball coach Alan Sawyer was inducted

into the San Pedro Sportswalk. Sawyer played for John Wooden’s UCLA team

starting in 1945.

To avenge its girls volleyball team, CdM’s girls tennis team upset No. 2

Newport Harbor, 11-7. Sarah Hawkins won all three singles points. Jenny

Glasgow, Christie O’Meara, Alissa Scott and Marisol Perea won all their

doubles matches for the Sea Kings.

CdM’s boys water polo team beat El Toro, 13-4, in it’s Sea View League

opener. Doug Jetton had eight saves and Adam McFarland scored three

goals.

Ten years ago

CdM’s football team took a 33-0 halftime lead and won, 33-13, against

Costa Mesa. Weston Johnson had two touchdown receptions and Brian Lucas

added two touchdown runs.

Estancia’s No. 7-ranked football team rolled to a 17-7 win over Orange.

Josh Wojtkiewicz rushed for 133 yards and Gary Burrows contributed with a

29-yard touchdown run.

Newport Harbor’s football team defeated Long Beach Wilson, 17-7.

Quarterback Steve Scheck was 16 for 29 with 174 yards and ran for a

touchdown.

Dina Birch of Estancia’s girls tennis team took her 29-1 singles record against University’s Jennifer Fylpaa, also 29-1, and won. But the Eagles

lost by the narrowest of margins in a tiebreaker, 9-9 (76-75).

Costa Mesa’s boys water polo team racked up 28 goals as it pounded

Trabuco Hills, 28-13. Corey Delahunt led the Mustangs with eight goals.

CdM’s boys water polo team beat Estancia, 14-3, behind Gunnar Gustafson’s

six goals.

OCC’s women’s soccer team scored five goals in the second half to top

Golden West College 7-2. Michelle Forgette scored twice, including the

tying goal.

CdM’s boys cross country team won the Stanford Invitational. Chris Cannon

won the boys race.

Costa Mesa’s girls cross country team finished fourth at it’s

invitational. Denise Bendz won the girls’ race.