Shadowlands

Costa Mesa High’s boys swim coach and local beach lifeguard Scott

Ferry is named as the school’s head girls water polo coach, replacing

Crystal Whitmore. Ferry takes over Costa Mesa’s second most

successful girls athletic program in terms of wins and losses in

1996-97. In the past 13 months, girls water polo goes from a club

sport to a CIF-sanctioned winter sport.

CdM’s Caylan Leslie, 15, the top-seeded tennis player in the

Pacific Coast Junior Tennis Championships, sweeps through the

quarterfinals before losing to fourth-seeded Marilyn Locke of San

Jose, 6-4, 6-4.

Yvette Ybarra is named as Costa Mesa High’s boys volleyball coach

becoming the first woman to coach the school’s boys team.

Costa Mesa resident Brian Morton, 14, continues his amazing run,

capturing the boys 14s singles title in the Pacific Coast Junior

Tennis Championships at Round Hill Country Club. The unseeded Morton

beats fourth-seeded Stephen Amritraj of Calabasas, 6-3, 6-4. Morton’s

win gives him four tournament wins for the year. After the singles

match, Morton and Amritraj team up to win the doubles title, 4-6,

6-3, 6-1. In girls 16s doubles Caylan Leslie of Corona del Mar wins

the title with partner Danielle Hustedt of Irvine, 7-5, 6-2.

The Newport Harbor girls soccer team advances to the quarterfinals

of the Esperanza Summer League Tournament, losing their quarterfinal

match to Rosary, 2-1. Coach Jason Sorrell’s team averages more than

two goals a game in the seven-week, 15-game series.

Newport Beach Dukes TennisTeam coach Greg Patton called it, “The

biggest win in franchise history,” after his team’s fourth straight

win, a 25-23 victory over Sacramento at John Wayne Tennis Club (now

Palisades Tennis Club). The win vaults Newport (5-3) into second

place in the West Division. Men’s singles proves one of more

competitive games of the night as Dukes’ Rikard Bergh breaks

Sacramento’s Steve DeVries for a 5-4 lead and puts him away with his

serve, 6-4. The decisive set of mixed doubles pits David MacPherson

and Patty Fendick against the Dukes’ Amy Frazier and Ronnie Bathman.

The Dukes jump out to a 3-0 lead before the Capitals storm back to

record three straight wins, winning 10 straight points at one point.

The Dukes finally pull out the match with a win in the tiebreaker

Danny O’Neil leads Corona del Mar High’s class of ’90 to the title

in the fourth annual Jack Errion Memorial Corona del Mar High

Basketball Tournament.

O’Neil, whose transfer to Mater Dei between his sophomore and

junior seasons sparked controversy between the two schools, scores 21

points including 15 in a second-half comeback to lead CdM’s ’90 team

to a 56-50 win over the ’82 class. The ’82 class beat the class of

‘87, 62-50, in one semifinal while ’90 beat ‘91, 48-36, in the other

semifinal. John Paulsen scores 14 points for ’90 while Carter Reese

ends the game with a slam dunk for the winners. For ‘82, Kurt

Peterson had 11 points and five rebounds as Hank Goebel scores 10

points and grabs four rebounds.