Costa Mesa outlasts Sea Kings

* SOFTBALL: It wasn’t the best day to be a pitcher Tuesday, as Costa

Mesa High and visiting Corona del Mar squared off for a good

old-fashion nonleague softball slugfest.

The Mustangs were outhit, 11-10, but managed a 13-7 triumph in a

battle of former Pacific Coast League rivals.

Costa Mesa junior cleanup hitter Jane-E Yamamoto made the Sea

Kings pay for walking senior slugger Ann Marie Topps twice ahead of

her. Yamamoto went 3 for 4 with an RBI, stole two bases and scored

three runs.

Topps still managed to double and drive in two runs to bring her

season total to 14 RBIs in three games. She also scored three times.

Mesa broke it open with a five-spot in the fourth, including a

two-run single by Michelle Miller, an RBI triple by Jennifer Jordan

and a single off the fence by Paulina Rodriguez.

Miller finished with three RBIs and scored twice, while Kelly

Topps belted an RBI triple for the winners.

* GOLF: The UC Irvine women’s golf team won the Anteater

Invitational by two strokes over Cal State Northridge at the Coto de

Caza Golf and Racquet Club in Coto de Caza, Tuesday. The Anteaters

shot a third round total of 310 to finish the tournament with a score

of 925 (313-302-310) , two shots ahead of Cal State Northridge 927

(308-311-308). Angela Won led UCI with a 77-73-74 -- 224.

* TENNIS: UC Irvine’s men’s tennis team swept the visiting

Montana State Bobcats, 7-0, to improve to 8-7. Zoran Korac, Jon

Endrikat, Brian Morton, Greg Biorkman, Peter Surapol and Eric Yandoc

all won.

* HOOPS: Pat Douglass, who led UCI to an 19-8 regular-season

record and 67 wins the last three years, has been named Big West

Conference Coach of the Year by CollegeInsider.com.

* SOCCER: UC Irvine women’s soccer Coach Marine Cano signed six

to national letters of intent: Lauryn Birkenshaw (Aliso Niguel), Jodi

Borba (Atascadero), Aleese Hernandez (Capistrano Valley), Dayna

Knowles (Dana Hills), Britney Webster (Capistrano Valley) and Marissa

Welliver (Aliso Niguel).

* COLLEGES: UC Davis will join the Big West Conference, moving

from NCAA Division II to Division I, the school’s Chancellor Larry

Vanderhoef announced Tuesday. The Aggies’ move will replace Utah

State’s eventual departure into the Sun Belt Conference, which will

go in effect in the 2005-06 season.

* SOFTBALL: Newport Harbor High senior pitcher Kim Moore did not

allow a hit through six innings and went 2 for 3 at the plate,

leading the Sailors’ softball team to a 10-0 nonleague win over

visiting Santiago Tuesday.

Newport (3-0) recorded its third shutout in as many games and

Moore earned her third pitching win. Of her 62 pitches, 46 were

strikes and she struck out eight of the 17 batters she faced.

* GOLF: Estancia High senior Jason Cassidy shot par-36 to give

the Eagles boys golf team an advantage in its first round of play

against Sunny Hills at Mesa Verde Country Club Tuesday.

The Eagles (1-0) scored 194 to Sunny Hills’ 215, as Estancia

freshman Marcus Sostak shot 38, and senior Ryan Brown came in at 39.

The Las brothers, Greg (freshman) and Jason (junior) finished at 40

and 41, respectively.

* GOLF: Corona del Mar High’s boys golf team improved to 4-0

with a twin victory over Mission Viejo and defending CIF champion

Woodbridge in a nine-hole match at Newport Beach Country Club

Tuesday.

CdM, led by medalist Nick Sherman’s 34, won with a 194 over the

par-35 course. Mission Viejo (196) and Woodbridge (202) trailed.

Other Sea Kings: Zack Rabinovich (36), Robert Ury (39), Brad

Chamberlin (42) and Tim Frohling and Alex Chikovani (each at 43).

* TENNIS: Costa Mesa High’s boys tennis team dropped a 12-6

Golden West League decision at Ocean View, falling to 0-2, 0-1 in

league.

Huy Pham (singles) and Garrett Sneen and Daniel Gomez (doubles)

stood out for the Mustangs with two victories each.

* SOFTBALL: The Sage Hill School softball team defeated nonleague

host Tarbut V’Torah, 15-0, Tuesday to improve to 2-0 this season.

Catheryn Dailey pitched three hitless innings and was 2 for 4 with

two RBIs to key the mercy-rule win.

* SOFTBALL: Behind the arm of starting pitcher Evelyn Flores’s

12 strikeouts, the Estancia High girls softball team improved to 2-1

with a 7-1 nonleague victory over visiting University Tuesday.

Shortstop Rebecca Kaplan went 3 for 4 to go with Hilary Ockey’s

2-for-4 performance. Allison Wayman went 3 for 4 with a double in the

hit parade. Flores improves to 1-1.