Sailors rip in opener

Newport Harbor High’s surf team opened the Sea View League season

Tuesday morning by defeating Santa Margarita, 96-30, near the 56th

Street break in Newport Beach.

Newport Harbor graduated several top surfers from last year’s team

and features many new faces in the ocean this year with an opening

lineup of nine sophomores, five juniors, four seniors and three

freshmen.

In Tuesday’s meet, Newport Harbor captured first place in six of

seven boys heats for its point total. The maximum points a team can

earn per event is 105.

The first heat saw double overhead sets as the Sailors’ Joey Head

opened the contest with a long left, ultimately winning the heat. The

seventh (and final) heat ended with chest high waves as Jared Mell

lead the Newport Harbor longboarders to victory.

Also winning shortboard heats for Newport were Tommy Holbrook,

Daniel Shea and Bronson Hovnanian, while Sailors Daniel Mathews

(bodyboarding) and Jill Austin (girls short/longboard) also won

heats.

There are five teams in the Sea View League. In addition to Harbor

and Santa Margarita, Calvary Chapel of Santa Ana, Los Alamitos and

Mater Dei are in the league. Each team competes against each other

twice leading up to the league finals on Dec. 2.

The Sailors’ home break is 56th Street. They will host Mater Dei

on Sept. 30 at 6:30 a.m.

Shortboard

Newport Harbor 59, Santa Margarita 24

Heat 1: 1. Joey Head (NH); 2. Nathan Stoneman (NH).

Heat 2: 1. Tommy Holbrook (NH); 2. Mark Kidman (NH); 3. Taylor

Shaw (NH).

Heat 3: 1. Daniel Shea (NH); 2. Brian Pearson (NH); 3. Joe Roggio

(NH).

Heat 4: 1. Bronson Hovnanian (NH); 2. Brett Catron (NH); 3.

Christian Morabito (NH).

Longboard

Newport Harbor 14, Santa Margarita 7

Jared Mell (NH); 2. Chase Smith (NH).

Bodyboard

Santa Margarita 11, Newport Harbor 10

1. Daniel Mathews (NH).

Girls Short/longboard

Newport Harbor 13, Santa Margarita 8

1. Jill Austin (NH); 2. Lisa Turk (NH).