Sailors stunned in five

Newport Harbor High’s girls volleyball is in uncharted territory

today.

The Sailors, 11-3 and ranked No. 1 in CIF Southern Section

Division II-AA, blew a two-game lead to visiting Aliso Niguel and

lost, 15-4, 15-10, 14-16, 12-15, 12-15, in the Sea View League opener

for both teams Wednesday.

Twenty-nine hitting errors and 12 hitting errors plagued Harbor.

“That equals loss,” said Newport Harbor Coach Dan Glenn about the

hitting errors and the missed serves.

Newport cut the lead to 12-11 in the fifth game before Aliso

pulled away.

“They out-served us, out-dug us and outplayed us,” Glenn said.

“Now we put ourselves in a hole if we want to win league.”

Alyson Jennings, Lauren Miller and Kristin McClune all had 11

kills to lead Newport and Kellie King tallied 51 assists. Alexis

Kearns led the team in service aces.

Newport next plays away at Irvine Friday in a league match.

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS WATER POLO

Tars shell Aliso, 23-5

Newport Harbor High’s boys water polo team made short work of

invading Aliso Niguel Wednesday, squashing the Wolverines with a pair

of eight-goal quarters in the first half en route to a 23-5 Sea View

League pasting.

Ross Sinclair led the scoring parade with five goals and Nathan

Weiner, Charlie Hockenbury and Gavin Schmidt added three goals apiece

in the rout.

Trevor Gregory, Brent Armstrong and Jay Thompson added two goals

each.

Harbor’s next venture is Friday, at home, in tournament play

against Davis at 10:10 a.m.

SEA VIEW LEAGUE

Newport Harbor 23, Aliso Niguel 5

Score by Quarters

Aliso Niguel 1 0 2

2 - 5

Newport 8 8 4

3 - 23

AN -- Terzd 3, Latin 1, Luther 1. Saves -- Jones

8.

NH -- Sinclair 5, Weiner 3, Hockenbury 3, Schmidt 3,

Gregory 2, Armstrong 2, Thompson 2, Laidlaw 1, Belden 1, Bury 1.

Saves -- McLain 3.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS GOLF

Sailors tee off on foe

Newport Harbor High’s girls golf team, paced by the medalist

honors of Natalie Draganza, who had a 9-over 45 for nine holes at

Santa Ana Country Club, bested Sea View League rival Laguna Hills

Wednesday, 256-271, as Harbor improved to 4-0, 3-0 in league.

Also scoring were Kayleigh Horn (50), Amanda Campbell (51), Ashley

Jacobs (53) and Katie McKay (57).

JC WOMEN’S WATER POLO

Rustlers belt OCC, 9-4

Golden West College goals on 6-on-5’s and penalty shots proved the

undoing for Orange Coast College women’s water polo team Wednesday in

a 9-4 Orange Empire Conference loss at Golden West.

The Rustlers, 18-3, 4-0 in conference, scored four goals with the

man-advantage and three on penalty shots.

“We get ejected too often, that’s one weakness,” said OCC Coach

Mike Giles. But we’re going to go back to the drawing board and fix

our problems.”

Four players scored one goal each for the Pirates (17-5, 4-1).

Erica Nicholson, Nicole Sonnenfeld, Courtney Robertson and Sara

Natalizio tallied goals for Coast and goalkeeper Heather Deyden made

11 saves.

ORANGE EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Golden West 9, Orange Coast 4

Score by Quarters

Orange Coast 0 1 2

1 - 4

Golden West 2 2 2

3 -- 9

OCC -- Nicholson 1, Sonnenfeld 1, Robertson 1,

Natalizio 1. Saves -- Deyden 11.

GWC -- Cardenas 5, Avery 2, McDonnell 1, Stone 1.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL

Mustangs sweep Lions

Emily Abbott tallied 12 kills and seven aces to lead the Costa

Mesa High girls volleyball team to a three-game Golden West League

sweep over host Westminster Wednesday, 15-3, 15-10, 17-15.

Sophomore Jackie Havens, younger sister of Mesa’s No. 1 singles

player Hilary Havens, had 17 assists and five aces for the Mustangs,

5-2, 4-0 in league.

The Mustangs travel to Santa Ana to battle Santa Ana Friday.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL

Estancia falls in three

Estancia High dropped a Golden West League match to visiting

Orange Wednesday at Estancia, 15-12, 15-11, 15-7.

Laura Morton, Kate Nelson and Lucia Flores each had four kills for

Estancia.

Flores had a team-high four service aces and 15 digs for Estancia,

1-7, 0-5 in league.

Orange was led by Alejandra Osorio and Paige Chen, each with five

kills, and Lisa Weaver had seven digs.

Osorio also contributed five digs.

Estancia hosts Pacifica in a nonleague match today at Estancia

High.