Sailors set up the Sea View showdown

Newport Harbor High’s girls volleyball team, led by 6-foot-3

senior middle blocker Kristin McClune’s 17 kills and seven service

aces, swept visiting Laguna Hills Thursday, 16-14, 15-7, 15-3 to

improve to 19-6 overall and 7-1 in the Sea View League. The Hawks

dropped to 1-7 in league.

Newport Harbor, which will play for first place on Tuesday against

visiting Woodbridge at 6:15 p.m., was also led by outside hitter

Alyson Jennings (seven kills and three aces) and setter Kellie King

(35 assists).

“We tried to give the first game away,” Newport Harbor Coach Dan

Glenn said.

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TENNIS: Newport girls just miss

Newport Harbor High’s doubles team of Diana Khoury and A.J. Olson

won three sets and Bonnie Adams and Carly Adams won two of three sets

at No. 3 doubles, but it was not enough for the Sailors as they lost

a Sea View League girls tennis match to visiting Woodbridge Thursday,

10-8.

Newport falls to 7-2 in the Sea View League with Thursday’s loss,

two games off Woodbridge’s 9-0 pace.

Newport’s No 1 doubles team of Brittany Sturgess and Megan McKay

won one set and Vanessa Dunlap and Krista McIntosh each won a set in

singles for the Sailors.

SEA VIEW LEAGUE

Woodbridge 10, Newport Harbor 8

Singles -- Haxby (NH) lost to Exon, 0-6, lost to

Williams, 0-6, lost to Call, 3-6; McIntosh (NH) lost, 1-6, 1-6, won,

6-1; Dunlap (NH) lost, 0-6, 2-6, won, 6-4.

Doubles -- Sturgess-McKay (NH) lost to H. Hustedt-Rye,

2-6, def. Pao-C .Hustedt, 6-4, lost to Reeve-Thompson, 4-6;

Khoury-Olson (NH) won, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2; C. Adams-B. Adams (NH) won,

6-4, 6-3, 3-6.

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GOLF: Newport girls KO Foothill

Led by medalist Amanda Campbell, who shot a personal-best 42 at

Big Canyon Country Club in her final regular-season match, the

Newport Harbor High girls golf team knocked off Sea View League

champion Foothill for the first time in league, 247-258, Thursday.

Campbell birdied hole 7 on the par-36 course and was followed by

freshman Natalie Draganza, who shot 43. Katie McKay fired a 53,

Kayleigh Horn shot 54 and Ashley Jacob and Rachel Kone both tallied

55’s for the Sailors, 8-2 in the Sea View League. Foothill is now

9-1.

“I was really pleased with our team,” said Sailors Coach Marianne

Towersey. “We’re peaking at the right time.”

Newport will compete in the CIF Individual finals that begin

Monday at 8:30 a.m. at San Juan Hills Golf Course in San Juan

Capistrano.

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FIELD HOCKEY: Tars stop Marina, 3-0

Three different players scored goals and Newport Harbor field

hockey team finished the regular season undefeated with a 10-0-4

record in the Sunset League after beating host Marina Thursday, 3-0,

in Huntington Beach.

The Tars finish second behind Edison going into Tuesday’s start of

tournament play.

Kaley Nix and Ashley Gleason scored the first two goals off of

continuations of penalty corners in the first half and Ashley

Harrison added another goal in the second half with an assist by Nix

to seal the win.

Newport had 17 penalty corners to Marina’s three and led in shots

on goal, 18-4. Sailors’ goalkeeper Amanda Wittman made five saves,

all in the first half.

Midfielder Kerrie Gates had what Newport Coach Sharon Wolfe said

was her best game of the season, and Kristen Jendrusina, Kirsten

Chamberlain, Jill Whitfield, Rachel Furman and Dana Owad

distinguished themselves.

Newport’s junior varsity team finished the season 13-0-1 and atop

the Sunset League for the fourth straight season and will play either

Harvard-Westlake or Edison in a championship game Wednesday at 3 p.m.

at Pleasant View School in Huntington Beach, Wolfe said.

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GOLF: Costa Mesa wins by five strokes

Costa Mesa High’s girls golf team was a 274-279 winner over

Estancia in Golden West League play at Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club

Thursday, with Jean You and Jessica Bunnell sharing medalist honors

with 48s on the nine-hole, par-35 Mesa Linda course.

Backing up Mesa’s 1-2 punch were Rachel Hughes (56), Christian

Casale (61) and Lindsey Reed (61) as the Mustangs improved to 8-8,

6-4 in league.

Estancia’s game was led by Sarah Lambert (54). Others: Clarisa

Maygren (55), Charleen Montevon (56), Courtney Hess (56) and Evelyn

Flores (60).

Estancia is now 3-9, 1-9.

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TENNIS: Corona del Mar romps, 16-2

Sophomore Jamie Steele did not drop a game, while junior Brittany

Holland lost just two in singles play with overwhelming sweeps in the

Corona del Mar High girls tennis team’s 15-2 Pacific Coast League

victory over visiting Calvary Chapel Thursday.

The Yelsey sisters, Anne and Rachel, as well as CdM doubles teams

of Courtney Carnahan and Jackie Manning, and Jennifer Way and Maggie

Souzzi also recorded three-set victories each. The Sea Kings improved

to 13-3, 8-1 in league.

PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

Corona del Mar 16, Calvary Chapel 2

Singles -- Holland (CdM) def. Spenuzza, 6-0, def.

Eichenmuller, 6-1, def. Paquette, 6-1; Steele (CdM) won, 6-0, 6-0,

6-0; Minna (CdM) won, 6-0, lost, 4-6, 5-7.

Doubles -- A. Yelsey-R. Yelsey def. Violora-Kays, 6-1,

def. E. Rann- N. Rann, 6-1, def. Lundquist-Verda, 6-0;

Carnahan-Manning (CdM) won, 6-2, 6-0, 6-1; Way-Souzzi (CdM) won, 6-2,

6-4, 6-3.

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TENNIS: Sage Hill a 16-2 winner

Sage Hill High’s girls tennis team shoved visiting Brethren

Christian aside in Academy League play Thursday, rolling to a 16-2

victory behind the freshman singles trio of Katie McKitterick, Kellie

Ammerman and Paige Fullmer, who all swept.

The Lightning finishes second in the Academy League with a 13-3,

10-2 record and is ranked No. 4 in CIF Division V as it awaits the

CIF Playoffs with seven freshman in the starting lineup.

Ammerman racked up a 45-2 record with 14 sweeps, McKitterick was

4-4 with 14 sweeps, and Fullmer is 37-11 with seven sweeps.

ACADEMY LEAGUE

Sage Hill 16, Brethren Christian 2

Singles -- McKitterick (SH) def. Grant, 6-1, def.

Fontig, 6-1, def. Dobbs, 6-0; Ammerman (SH) won, 6-0, 6-4, 6-0;

Fullmer (SH) won, 6-1, 6-1, 7-5.

Doubles -- Tsoong-Chen (SH) def. Beatty-Fatticci, 6-0;

def. Brown-Niswonger, 6-0; def. Budge-Eun, 6-1; Graham-Heyler (SH)

won, 6-2, lost, 2-6, won, 6-2; Webb-White (SH) won, 6-0, 6-4, lost,

4-6.

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POLO: Eagles fall, 17-5, to Los Amigos

The Estancia High boys water polo team ran into a potent Los

Amigos squad in a high school boys water polo match Thursday and

lost, 17-5.

Jess Hellmich led the scoring for the Eagles with two goals and

Chad Kunert, Anthony Herman and Matt Metkovich each added one goal

apiece to round out the Eagles scoring.