Shadowlands

Five years ago

Costa Mesa High’s Julie Collett helps her Orange County Batbusters

fast-pitch softball team to the Amateur Softball Association

championship.

Steve Conti is named the Corona del Mar High boys volleyball coach.

The Newport Force fast-pitch softball club wins two games against the

Costa Mesa Stampede to close out its summer season. Newport Harbor’s

Molli Mullen hits a double in each game for the Force. Linda Van Hook

pitches the first victory and Corona del Mar’s Hayden Aley gets the win

on the second day.

Ten years ago

Costa Mesa products Jeff Field and Brook Burnhard capture the McKinley

Street Basketball 2-on-2 Shootout over organizers Ken Bardsley and Ted

Hanson.

Corona del Mar senior Courtney Strauss defeats Allison Light, 4-6,

6-0, 6-4, in the girls 16 singles semifinals of the Junior Tennis

Classic.

The Costa Mesa Sidekick American Youth Soccer Organization beats

Woodland Hills, 4-0, in an exhibition game at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Benny Novac scores two of the Sidekicks’ goals. Daniel Brandon and Greg

Dill also score for Mesa.