Boys golf: Warren resigns

NEWPORT BEACH - Jim Warren, who guided the Newport Harbor High boys

golf team to the CIF South Coast Regional championship last spring,

resigned Friday, Newport Harbor officials confirmed.

Warren, who did not return a phone message, will be replaced on an

interim basis by assistant Marianne Towersey.

Towersey, an assistant with the Newport girls program the last four

years, is in her second season coaching the boys program.

The three-time defending Tea Cup Classic champion said she was unsure

whether she would want to continue as head coach beyond this season.

In addition to the regional title, the equivalent of a CIF Southern

Section crown, the Sailors won the Sea View League championship last

season.

The Sailors travel to the Monterey Peninsula for nonleague matches

Sunday and Monday.

-- by Barry Faulkner