Newport wins Fullerton tourney

Carolyn Conway scored four goals and Anne Belden added two to lead

the Newport Harbor water polo club team to a 9-8 victory over

Coronado in the final of the Fullerton College Open tournament last

weekend.

Conway will be a senior and Belden will be a junior at Newport

Harbor High in the fall.

Playing against open club and college level teams, the Newport

club team, which features several Newport Harbor High varsity team

members, used speed and defense to surge past the opposition and win

the tournament title.

Newport defeated Troy, 14-2, crushed Santa Clarita, 16-3, and

edged past North Shore, 8-7 to reach the final against Coronado.

In the title game, Newport outshot Coronado, 22-14, with Jessica Ball, Katie Erickson and Melissa Wheeler scoring one goal each. Ball

and Erickson will be seniors for the Sailors, while Wheeler will be a

junior in the fall.

Belden, Ball and Terin Cottam recorded two assists each, while

Erickson and Leah Robertson also contributed assists. Newport led,

6-4, at halftime. Cottam, Newport’s goalie who will be a senior,

stopped three shots.

Jocelyn Manderino, a former Newport Harbor High standout, coached

the Newport club team while Coach Bill Barnett was in Europe as

assistant coach for the U.S. men’s World Cup team.