Shadowlands

The Extreme Boys 16-and-under soccer club takes third place in the

JUSA Kickoff Tournament by going 2-2 in reaching the semifinals. The

Extreme scores seven goals and has solid goaltending by Mike Reynolds

and Mike Culp. In the club’s second game Eric Perrine nails three

goals for a hat trick as John Swigart adds another goal in the

come-from-behind victory. David Jenkins scores for the Extreme in the

tournament as well as the offense and midfield is anchored by Jose

Pacheco, Charlie Thompson, Brandon Smith, Clark Yeager, Brian Dunn

and Ruben Rodriguez while the defense is provided by Greg Gonzalez,

Sonny Elbard and Matt and Culp Reynolds.

Costa Mesa High is ranked eighth in the CIF Division VIII and

Newport Harbor is ranked 10th in Division V in the CIF Southern

Section football poll as voted by members of the media. Costa Mesa

and Newport Harbor are the only two area schools represented in the

CIF preseason poll.

Kirk Bauermeister is named head coach of the Costa Mesa High

baseball team for the second time by Mustangs’ athletic director

Jerry Howell after Doug Deats resigns. The president of Costa Mesa

American Little League, Bauermeister played and graduated from Costa

Mesa High and led the Mustangs to the CIF playoffs in 1981.

The Toshiba Senior Classic returns to the Newport Beach Country

Club next year as officials from Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

make the announcement at a press conference. In May NBCC ownership,

citing defaults in payments from the current operator, International

Sports and Event Marketing, Inc., and ISM’s relatively small

contributions to charities ($47,000) after the 1997 tournament, issued a statement saying it would no longer host the event if ISM

continued as operator. As the new operator, Toshiba will donates more

than $100,000 to three designated charities for 1997 that include the

Make-A-Wish Foundation (OC Chapter), the National Dyslexia Research

Foundation and the ALS Foundation. Toshiba gives each organization a

$35,000-check. Also at the press conference, Jake Rohrer and Hank

Adler, representatives of Hoag and longtime volunteers of the Taco

Bell Newport Classic Pro-Am, are named co-chairmen of the 1998 Senior

Classic.

Bill Barnett, who coached the United States national water polo

team in the last two Olympics, says he’s disappointed about being

replaced by Richard Corso. Corso coaches Canada’s national team and

is named the new coach through 1996 by a recommendation from a

five-member committee from U.S. Water Polo. Barnett has coached

Newport Harbor High the last 26 years and led the American team to a

silver medal in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea, and a fourth-place

finish in the recent Barcelona Games. Barnett says, “I’m

disappointed, but not vindictive.” The selection committee expresses

its gratification to Barnett, 49, for his eight years of service as

U.S. Water Polo President Richard Foster says all efforts will be

made to keep Barnett involved with the national program.

Islero, skippered by Anthony Reyes, captures the Flight of the

Swans Regatta VI hosted by the Balboa Yacht Club, besting Batteauivre

(Gordon Miller) and Elyxir (Paul Ely) to capture the Class A and

overall title. Reyes scores 4.75, beating Miller (7.75) and Ely

(9.0).

The Offshore Canoe Club’s women’s entry rolls to its 14th straight

title at the U.S. Championship Outrigger Canoe races, paddling from

Newport Beach to Catalina in five hours, 13 minutes, 19 seconds. The

combination of JoJo Toeppner, Mindy Clark, Sharon Attllesey, Leslie

Davis, Bonnie Shearer, Sheila Beuler, Dru Van Hengle, Sheila Conover

and Gayle Meyers beat Outrigger Canoe Club by a minute, 33 seconds

over the 26-mile plus course. In the men’s division, Lanikai of Oahu

takes the title with a 53-second margin over Dana Point’s Outrigger

Canoe Club.

Balboa Island’s J. Kenneth Fagans, the CIF Southern Section

commissioner for 21 years (1951-1975) is one of three Orange County

personalities recognized by the Orange County Sports

Association/Disneyland Pigskin Classic III as a Football Heritage

Award winner. Stanford and Texas A&M; collide in the game at Anaheim

Stadium. Fagans initiates the first interscholastic athletic program

for girls in 1971 and was a key figure in procedures for seeding and

pairings in CIF championship playoffs. He has been retired for 17

years and lives with wife Norma on Balboa Island.

-- compiled by Bryce Alderton