Orange Coast rebounds to tame Tigers

Two days after being swept by the top-rated team in the state, the

Orange Coast College women’s volleyball team rebounded with a 30-20,

30-22, 30-22 Orange Empire Conference victory Friday night at host

Riverside.

Sophomore Christine Woller (Newport Harbor High) led the Pirates

(9-1, 4-1 in the OEC), ranked second to Golden West in the state

poll, with 13 kills, while Donka Drozd tallied 11.

Sophomore Amber McCarthy led Coast with 41 assists and three ace

serves.

Freshman middle blocker Jenny Kuehn tallied four kills, three digs

and three aces against Riverside (2-6, 1-4).

Coast hosts Fullerton in OEC play at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Pirates shut out, 2-0

* SOCCER: Lindsey Smoot, an Orange Coast College transfer, scored

a second-half goal for Santiago Canyon to secure a 2-0 Orange Empire

Conference victory over her former team Friday at Santiago Canyon.

“That was good,” OCC Coach Barbara Bond said. “I was happy for

her.”

Last year, Smoot was looking for more playing time, and Bond

advised her to play for Santiago Canyon, which is in second place in

the OEC.

The Pirates (5-5-1, 4-4-1 in conference), usually one of the top

two teams in the OEC, is in fourth.

Freshman goalkeeper Michelle Vahdatipour recorded eight saves for

OCC, which plays at Cypress Tuesday at 1 p.m.

OCC splits in tourney

* WATER POLO: The Orange Coast College men’s water polo team

scored 13 first-half goals and cruised to a 17-8 victory over Chaffey

in the opening day of the Cypress tournament Friday.

The Pirates began the tourney with a 9-7 loss to Citrus, but came

back with the win over Cypress.

Mike Vanderberg led OCC with four goals, while Jason Grajilaua,

Mike Martin and Tyler Morales scored three goals each.

The Pirates play in consolation action today at 10 a.m. against

Southwestern.

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Cypress tournament

Orange Coast 17, Chaffey 8

Score by quarters

OCC 5 8 1 3 -- 17

Chaffey 2 2 2 2 -- 8

OCC -- Vanderberg 4, Grajilaua 3, Martin 3,

Morales 3, Avetoon 1, Crowell 1, Vang 1,

Castorena 1. Saves -- Shin 4. Chaffey -- Grant 5,

Josh Conway 2, Ryan Gomez 1. Saves -- Maldonado

3.

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Sage holds off Whitney

* VOLLEYBALL: Sophomores Sophia Hillgren and Cat Dailey recorded

11 and 10 kills, respectively, leading the Sage Hill School girls

volleyball team to a tight, four-game win over Academy League host

Whitney Friday.

The Lightning won, 25-17, 25-23, 23-25, 25-23. Freshman Kelsey

Lawler contributed six service aces for Sage Hill.

‘Eaters rally past UCSB

* VOLLEYBALL: The UC Irvine women’s volleyball team rallied from a

2-1 deficit Friday night to defeat visiting UC Santa Barbara, 30-28,

29-31, 33-35, 30-25, 15-11, to improve to 16-4 overall and 7-1 in the

Big West Conference.

Kelly Wing led Coach Charlie Brande’s squad with 33 kills, while

teammates Trisha White (18 kills), Dana Kurzbard (14), Amanda Vazquez

(12) and Sami Cash (12) also contributed to the offense.

Setter Ashlie Hain had 79 assists.

The scored was tied 38 times in the match and the team exchanged

leads 19 times before 380 fans at Crawford Court.

UCI wins wild one

* SOCCER: UC Irvine (8-3-4, 2-1-2 in the Big West Conference)

defeated Idaho (2-8-4, 0-4) Friday night, 2-1, in a wild game at

Anteater Stadium.

The Anteaters scored in the 17th minute on junior Alyson Spencer’s

goal with assists by Leah Dawson and Hayley McNallan.

Idaho tied it in the 55th minute.

In the 76th minute, Anteater head coach Marine Cano was given his

second yellow card of the match and two minutes later a fight broke

out on the field with one player for Idaho and two players for UCI

receiving red cards. Irvine played the final 12 minutes with nine

players on the field and Idaho had 10.

The Anteaters scored the winning goal with three minutes remaining

on Spencer’s second goal on another assist by Dawson.

UCI goalkeeper Marissa Welliver had one save.

UCI will host the Utah State Aggies on Sunday at 1 p.m. at

Anteater Stadium.

UCI’s Cendejas honored

* HONORS: UC Irvine senior Tessa Cendejas has been selected Big

West Conference female Athlete of the Week for cross country.

Cendejas finished fourth among 199 runners in the Triton Classic

at UC San Diego Oct. 11 with a time of 22:22.7 over 6,000 meters.

Her finish helped the Anteaters to a second-place showing in the

team competition with 62 points.

UCI competes in the Cal Poly Invitational at San Luis Obispo

today.

Registration now online

* YOUTH BASEBALL: Online registration is available for the first

time for the 2004 Costa Mesa National Little League season. Signups

can be made by accessing https://www.cmnll.org.

Early registration, which is $75 per player ($195 maximum per

family), continues until Nov. 28.

After that date, the fee increases to $85. The T-ball fee is $65.

The league serves boys and girls ages 5-12 who live in the area

roughly bounded by the Santa Ana River, MacArthur Boulevard, Fairview

Road, Harbor Boulevard, along with 15th and 16th Streets.

Play begins in March.

Call (714) 966-2655 or (714) 745-2761 for information.