Shadowlands

Looking back, 5 years ago this week:

Costa Mesa High Athletic Director Jerry Howell announces that baseball

coach Doug Deats has resigned after four years. Deats cites the need to

spend more time with family and “explore other areas in life.” He guides

Mesa to back-to-back playoff appearances in 1995-96, collecting a 42-55

overall record. He sent four players to the college ranks: Jeremy Starns,

(Chapman), Matt Broesamle (Concordia), Seth Halvorson (La Verne) and Mike

Adelmund. He led the Mustangs to their first playoff appearance since

1981 in 1995, when the Mustangs finished, 13-11.

Corona del Mar’s Anne Yelsey is Newport-Mesa’s highest seeded player

(No. 2) in the Southern California Tennis Association Junior Sectional

Championships at Los Caballeros Sports Village in Fountain Valley. Yelsey

reaches the finals in the girls 12s, losing to top-seeded Diane Matias.

Alexandra McGoodwin of Newport Beach, seeded fifth in girls 14s, topps

Anne Clai Ortiz-Luis of Rancho Cucamonga, 6-3, 6-0, in the first round

and reaches the quarterfinals. Other local players advancing after

first-round play are CdM’s third-seeded Caylan Leslie in the girls 16s,

CdM senior Nina Vaughan, CdM’s Nadia Vaughan in girls 16s, the Sea Kings’

Hunter Jack in boys 14s and Newport Beach’s Josh Bradbury Jr. in boys

12s.

The Costa Mesa American Little League Athletics win the District 62

Senior Minor Division of the Tournament of Champions with a 4-2 win over

the Westminster Yankees. Nicholas Cabico throws a complete game, striking

out nine while allowing three hits. In the bottom of the fourth, Doug

Amburgey walks and Marco Santangelo singles to knock in Bradley Ayres.

Cabico then reaches on an error and Amburgey scores. The two runs prove

to be the difference.

Looking back, 10 years ago this week:

Team USA wins the final of the OP Pro Surfing Championships at

Huntington Beach Pier, holding off Australia, 84.5-62.5. Team USA holds

an overall 8-6 edge in points heading into the final in team competition.

Team USA trounces Japan, 14-0, winning all seven heats in the opening

match. Newport Beach’s Richie Collins outscores Japan’s Takao Kuga,

22.5-14.5.

A trio of Corona del Mar High girls soccer players and one Newport

Beach resident lead the Fountain Valley Spirit to a win in the Western

Regional of the National Cup Under-16 Tournament, good for a berth in the

national tournament that July in Richmond, Va. Sea Kings Stefanie Hughes,

Ali Havriluk and Whitney West and Newport Beach’s Chrissy Whalen of Mater

Dei High, all contribute for the Spirit, which finish 46-14 with six

regional tournament wins, including a 1-0 title-game win over the

Pleasanton Power. Hughes scores four goals in the tournament, including

the game-winner against Pleasanton. Havriluk posts two complete-game

shutouts in goal. West and Whalen each score a goal in the team’s 8-0

opening-round victory.

Former Costa Mesa High and Orange Coast College shot putter Bonnie

Dasse qualifies for the Olympic team at the U.S. Track and Field trials.

She finishes third with a mark of 58 feet, 5 1/4 inches, more than a foot

better than the fourth-place finisher. Dasse joins former CdM High

standout Jim Doehring as Olympians in Barcelona.

-- compiled by Bryce Alderton