UCI women lose in four

UC Irvine’s women’s volleyball team fell to 7-5, 1-2 in the Big

West Conference Friday as visiting Cal Poly San Luis Obispo scored a

30-26, 30-22, 31-33, 30-27 victory in Crawford Hall Friday night.

UC Irvine was led bgy Kelly Wing, who put away 27 kills, while

recoding 12 digs. Chanda McLeod added 18 kills and a team-high 21

digs.

PREPS: CdM rolls

Corona del Mar High’s girls volleyball team didn’t lose a game

Friday in the Capo Valley Tournament as they knocked off Esperanza,

15-6, 15-7, then Canyon, 15-3, 15-0, and finally JW North from

Riverside, 15-12, 15-8.

CdM is one of the remaining four teams out of 16 who will play again today in a best three-out-of-five format. Teams competing

include Poway, Vista and Mission Viejo.

Esperanza came into the day ranked No. 3 in CIF Southern Section

Division I-AA while Canyon is eighth in Div. I-A. The Sea Kings are

ranked third in III-A.

JC: Bucs sweep

Orange Coast College needed less than an hour to deal with

visiting San Diego City College Friday in women’s nonconference

volleyball, pasting the Knights, 30-13, 30-13, 30-8, to improve to

5-0.

The Pirates, No. 6 in the state, were led by sophomore Krystle

Davis (nine kills, five aces and four digs), and freshman Jessica

Lingo, who had six kills, five digs and a match-best seven ace

serves.

Setters Elisha Counts and Jessica Lippi combined for 29 assists as

Coach Chuck Cutenese went to the bench early and played everyone.

PREPS: Eagles fall

Senior Tori Girod had five kills to lead the Estancia High girls

volleyball team, but it wasn’t enough as the Eagles lost in three

games to host Saddleback, 7-15, 9-15, 13-15 in a Golden West League

match Friday in Santa Ana.

Girod also had two blocks for the Eagles (1-4, 1-1 in league) as

Hillary Larsen served 13 points and Betzabeth Vazquez had 21 assists.

Lucia Flores led the team with 12 digs.

Estancia next travels to duel Santa Ana Wednesday at 3:15 p.m.