Shadowlands

Looking back, 5 years ago this week:

Newport Harbor High senior Chuck Loo wins four individual events

in a 72-64 nonleague loss to Edison in boys track and field action.

Loo bests the field in both hurdles races in addition to the high

jump (5-10) and triple jump (40-4 3/4). Newport’s Curt Herberts

doubles in the 800 meters and 1,600 while Eddie Clark eclipses the

150-foot mark to win the discus (151-2 1/2). On the girls’ side,

Amanda Kent takes the 400 and contributes to both winning relays

while Carrie Foss doubles in the distance events for her first

varsity wins. Amber Steen remains unbeaten while Krista Dill wins the

discus and Sara McMillan tops the field in the 300 hurdles and plays

a part in the winning 1,600 relay.

Costa Mesa High senior Ben Felter collects four hits and throws an

inning of scoreless relief in his varsity debut to propel the

Mustangs to a 22-3 victory over visiting Victor Valley Christian.

Felter goes 4 for 5 with four runs and two RBIs and Chris DeSandro

adds a 3-for-4 performance at the plate with five RBIs. Ryan

Gallacher fans five and walks just one in four innings. Ruben

Mancilla, Jimmy Herzog and DeSandro all hit homers.

Shontel Sherwood, Costa Mesa High’s girls basketball coach the

past three seasons, resigns, preferrring to spend more time on her

career as a detective with the Newport Beach Police Department. She

led Mesa to a share of the PCL title in her second season.

Looking back, 10 years ago this week:

In a historic run, the Costa Mesa High girls basketball team falls

to St. Francis of Sacramento, 50-43, in the CIF Division III State

Final. Heather Robinson’s 16 points and 11 rebounds are the only show

of consistency for Mesa, which has trouble maintaining momentum, said

senior Olivia DiCamilli. The Pacific Coast League, CIF Southern

Section Division III-A and Southern California Division III champions

(29-5) pare the lead down to 43-38 over a span of 6:20, after

trailing, 43-31. But an errant pass gives St. Francis’ Camille

Gutierrez a breakaway layup with 2:53 remaining. Andrea Whalen

intercepts another bad pass and converts to pad the Troubador lead.

DiCamilli, headed for San Diego State, averages 22.2 points and 30.5

in the playoffs, but is held to 10. St. Francis trails only once,

9-8, after a DiCamilli bucket from the inside with 1:32 left in the first quarter. Newport Harbor High’s boys and girls track and field

teams both win the Battle of the Bay over rival Corona del Mar. The

boys win, 77-59, and the girls claim a 74-53 triumph. For the first

time in Newport Coach Eric Tweit’s 14 years at the school, both boys

and girls track teams beat CdM the same day. Senior Jared Overton

wins both distance races for Newport, crossing first in the 1,600

(4:32.4) and the 3,200 (10:08). Newport’s top wrestler, Chris

Edwards, wins both hurdle events, dominating the 110 high hurdles in

16.3 and the 300 intermediate hurdles in 42.8, the latter a personal

best. Senior Beau Ralphs takes first in the shot put (53-3), while

juniors Wade Tift (52-0) and Jay Berg-Hansen (51-10 1/2) finish second and third, respectively, for Newport. CdM’s Jason Boyce wins

the 100 (11) and 200 (22.8). Three Newport Harbor girls -- sophomore

Mandy Clayton, junior Gina Heads and junior Lindsey Curtis -- each

win two events. Sophomore high jumper Tina Bowman clears 5-foot-6.

Sea Kings’ freshman distance runner Kelly Campbell wins the 3,200

(11:25.7) in only the second time she has ever ran in the event and

also takes the 1,600 in 5:26.2. Clayton, the defending Sea View

League champion in the 100 low hurdles, posts a winning time of 18.2,

while also taking first in the triple jump (31-2 3/4). Curtis races

to victory in the 100 (13.2) and 300 low hurdles (51.2). Heads

captures the shot put (39-9 1/2) and the discus (128-1).

-- compiled by Bryce Alderton