Local trio moves on to semis

All three seeded players from Newport-Mesa advanced to the semifinals

of their respective age divisions Friday at the 101st annual Southern

California Tennis Association junior sectional championships.

Top-seeded Costa Mesa resident Nelly Radeva cruised by

eighth-seeded Catherine Isip, 6-2, 6-2, and will face Indio’s Pamela

Montez in a girls 12s singles division semifinal today at 2 p.m. at

Los Caballeros Sports Village in Fountain Valley. If Radeva wins, she

would play in the final Sunday at Los Cab at 9 a.m.

Newport Beach’s Jake Fleming, the third seed in boys 14s, defeated

Mark Martinez, 6-1, 6-3 and will face second-seeded Steven Forman

from Del Mar today at 2 p.m. at Los Cab. The boys 14s final is

scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday.

Sixth-seeded Carsten Ball upset third-seed Stefan Hardy of Santa

Maria, 6-4, 6-2, in boys 16s action and will face Los Angeles’ Mike

Guzman today at 11 a.m. at Los Cab. Sunday’s final is scheduled for

10:30 a.m.

Two area players are still alive in the consolation brackets of

their age division after Friday.

Newport Beach’s Kaes Van’t Hof defeated Encinitas’ John Caldwell,

6-4 6-3, to advance to a boys 18s quarterfinal against Irvine’s Adam

Loucks at 9:30 a.m. at Los Cab. If Van’t Hof wins, he would play in a

semifinal later today at 12:30 p.m. while Alvarado would play again

at 2 p.m. if he defeats Nguyen.

Costa Mesa’s Charlie Alvarado needed three sets to post a 6-2,

4-6, 6-1 victory in the boys 12s consolation bracket. Alvarado, the

eighth seed, will face Anaheim’s Denis Nguyen in a quarterfinal today

at 11 a.m. at the Neal Machander Tennis Center in Santa Ana.

Brittany Holland, in the third round of the girls 18s consolation

bracket, and Ryan Caughren in the same round in boys 14s, lost their

matches Friday. Holland lost to Kristen McVitty of Woodland Hills,

7-5, 6-3, while Caughren fell to Christian Isip, 6-3, 5-7, 2-6.