Newport tunes up

Newport Harbor High’s club surfing team, unbeaten in 10 league

dual meets, dropped a 77-70 nonleague surfing meet to Edison at 9th

Street in very cold , 4- 6-foot surf Thursday morning.

It was the first of five nonleague meets leading to the State Meet

in March.

Newport won two of the four short board heats led by heat winners

Geoff Rill and Will Anderson. Second in heats were Matt Doheny and

Tommy Holbrook.

David Neira, Alex Knost and Joey Head were fourth in heats, and

fifth-place efforts were turned in by Nathan Stoneman, Morgan Hill

and Erica Hosseini. Brian Pearson was sixth in one heat.

Long boarder Alex Knost took first place while freshman Brett

Catron was third and freshman Jared Mell was sixth.

Justin Kast, Dan Kretschmar and Mike Beck were third, fourth and

sixth in body boards.

The girl’s division was won by sophomore Erica Hosseini while

Robin Senour and Amy Lowry went 3-4.

The next nonleague meet for Newport is against Marina Dec. 19 in

Huntington Beach.