Sailors prevail, 3-1

* GIRLS SOCCER: Newport Harbor High senior Amy Burlingham scored

two goals and senior Sabrina Couch added another to lead the Sailors

girls soccer team to a 3-1 Sea View League victory over host Foothill

Tuesday in Santa Ana.

Newport (5-8-5, 3-2-1) led 1-0 at halftime, after Burlingham

converted a penalty kick because of a hand-ball violation by Foothill

in the 28th minute. Burlingham scored an unassisted goal in the 51st

minute. Then, nine minutes later Couch found the back of the net

after finishing a cross by senior Tricia Orth.

The Knights avoided a shutout, scoring in the final minute.

Newport Harbor junior goalkeeper Kara DeMille recorded seven saves.

Estancia slips past Westminster with 1-0 win

* BOYS SOCCER: Estancia High’s host Eagles got a goal from Luis

Mendoza at 76:57 to claim a 1-0 Golden West League boys soccer win

over Westminster Tuesday.

Mendoza took a cross in front of the goal, made a couple of moves

and punched it in from 3-4 yards out, in a hard, physical match,

according to Coach Steve Crenshaw. Sergio Madrigal had one save to

preserve the shutout. The Eagles are 6-8-1, 3-5-1 in league and

within range of a CIF Playoffs berth.

Mustangs drop 2-0 decision to Ocean View

* BOYS SOCCER: The Costa Mesa High boys soccer team remained

winless after losing, 2-0, to Golden West League host Ocean View

Tuesday.

Mesa goalie John Ruiz stopped four shots. Coach Eugene Day said

the Mustangs (0-17-1, 0-9-0) had six viable scoring opportunities in

the first half. “We cannot finish,” Day said.

Oxford Academy dismisses Sage Hill, 2-1

* BOYS SOCCER: A header by host Oxford Academy’s Kyle Stanfield

in the 60th minute proved to be the game-winner as the Patriots

defeated Sage Hill School, 2-1, in Academy League boys soccer

Tuesday.

Stanfield scored off a cross from Kyle Shield in the 60th minute.

Sage Hill evened the score in the 50th minute when Trevor Granger

scored off an assist from Zach Friedrichs. Ethan Tanney made 10 saves

in goal for Sage Hill (6-4-2, 2-2-2 in league).

Lightning captain Julian Smith-Newman strained ligaments in his

knee and didn’t play Tuesday, said Lightning assistant coach Chris

Ellsasser. Smith-Newman is expected to miss a week, according to

Ellsasser.

Lightning drops 7-1 match to Oxford

* GIRLS SOCCER: Amy Werblin scored off a free kick in the last

five minutes but it was not enough against visiting Oxford Academy as

the Patriots beat the Sage Hill School Lightning, 7-1, in Academy

League girls soccer action Tuesday.

Barbara Cormalis and Whitney Fountas each scored two goals to lead

Oxford (10-1-1, 4-1) in league.

Laura Gordon had 13 saves in goal for Sage Hill (3-10, 2-3) in the

teams’ first meeting this season.

Lightning bests Estancia, 11-6

* GIRLS WATER POLO: Sage Hill School junior Hayden Hutchison

scored five of her game-high nine goals in the third quarter to help

the Lightning pull away from host Estancia for an 11-6 nonleague

girls water polo win Monday. Sophomore goalie Kira Neal had 12 saves

for the Lightning (8-8), which also received two goals from freshman

Stephanie Roeser.

Marilyn Reich had four goals to pace the Eagles. Katie Mahan

recorded nine saves.

OCC’s Herring commits to Wagner College

* COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Orange Coast College offensive tackle Stephen

Herring left last weekend for Wagner College in New York City (Staten

Island), where the second-team All-Orange Empire Conference honoree

will play next season after accepting a scholarship, said his mother,

Dawn Herring.

Herring, a second-team JC Grid Wire All-American, is also a

candidate to be the Orange County chapter representative into the

National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame, announced at a

dinner March 10 in Anaheim, said OCC Coach Mike Taylor. The award

recognizes academic and athletic achievements. Herring had a 3.68

grade-point average at Coast, Taylor said.

OCC place-kicker Rob Pate was inducted into the hall last year.

Herring, a national scholar at Sonora High in La Habra, will

likely major in sports management at Wagner, Dawn said. He also

received a full scholarship to Liberty Christian in Lynchburg, Va,

she added. In other football recruiting news, OCC center Ed Fane has

committed to the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, a Division I-A

school.

-- by Bryce Alderton

UCI’s Slobounov Co-Big West Athlete of Week

* COLLEGE DIVING: UC Irvine freshman Anton Slobounov has been

named Big West Co-Athlete of the Week for his performance at the UCLA

Diving Invitationals.

Slobounov came in third place in the three-meter competition with

427.85 points for 11 dives and fourth in the one-meter competition

with 530.35 points for 11 dives.

Anteaters’ Gabbe Big West Player of the Week

* COLLEGE WOMEN’S HOOPS: UC Irvine senior guard Wendy Gabbe was

selected as the Big West Player of the Week after leading the UCI

women’s basketball team to victories over Pacific and Cal State

Northridge.

Gabbe, the Anteaters’ lone senior, hit 6 of 11 from three-point

range in two games. For the week, she averaged 20.0 points, 4.5

rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game. She played 74 minute

without committing a turnover. It is her second career honor and the

fourth for a UCI player this season.