Sea King boys win third straight match

Chris Ringstrom and Dominic Rubino each scored goals to lead the

undefeated Corona del Mar High boys soccer team to a 2-1 nonleague

win over host Long Beach Poly Friday.

Ringstrom gave CdM (3-0) a 1-0 lead when he scored his fifth goal

of the early season off an assist by Austin Brawner in the 44th

minute. Rubino made it 2-0 when he scored in the 59th minute off a

pass from Julien Cerutti.

CdM drew two red cards and played the final 10 minutes down two

players.

“We had to drop people back on a large field,” CdM Coach Pat

Callaghan said. “The boys worked hard, it was a long week.”

Jay Zimmerman made five saves in goal while Shane Collins led the

Sea Kings’ defense.

CdM, which hasn’t played a home game, travels to face host Sage

Hill at 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Lumbreras lifts Eagles

* SOCCER: Narciso Lumbreras scored a goal 10 minutes into Friday’s

nonleague boys soccer game and host Estancia High made it stand up in

a 1-0 victory over Marina.

Lumbreras booted the ball into the net off a corner kick from Luis

Mendoza.

Estancia goalkeeper Uber Gallegos made two saves while only facing

four shots. The Eagles put 13 shots on the opposing keeper.

Estancia (2-1) faces host Fountain Valley at 3 p.m. Monday.

UCI duo ranks first

* TENNIS: The doubles team of senior Jon Endrikat and junior Brian

Morton is currently ranked first in the West region in the Fall

Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional rankings.

The pair finished the fall season 10-3, including winning the ITA

West region championship in Carson and reaching the semifinals of the

Icy Hot/ITA All-American championships in Chattanooga, Tenn. The pair

was also seeded fourth at the ITA/National Intercollegiate indoor

championships in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Senior Zoran Korac is ranked 29th in singles in the West region

through the fall schedule. The West region consists of all the

Division I schools in Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington.

The Anteaters will open their season Jan. 15th at UCLA.

Eagles soar in opener

* WATER POLO: Courtney Hess and Marilyn Reich each scored five

goals to lead the host Estancia High girls water polo team to an 18-2

nonleague win Friday over Bolsa Grande to begin the season.

Melissa Buchmann and Carolina Barnes each scored three goals while

Amaryah Thaler and Katie Mahan tallied one apiece for the Eagles.

Mahan finished with six saves through the first three quarters.

“We were just trying to move the ball around as much as possible,”

Estancia Coach Bob Bandaruk said.

The Eagles face Sage Hill in a nonleague game at 6 p.m. Monday at

CdM High.

*--*

Nonleague

Estancia 18, Bolsa Grande 2

Score by Quarters

BG 1 0 0 1 -- 2

Est 3 5 6 4 -- 18

Bolsa Grande -- Yoon 2. Saves - Van Pham 6.

Estancia -- Mahan 1, Hess 5, Buchmann 3, Thaler

1, Reich 5, Barnes 3. Saves -- Mahan 6.

*--*

Sage spun in Webb

* BASKETBALL: Webb High of Claremont took advantage of Sage Hill

School missing two of its starters to earn a 33-30 nonleague girls

basketball victory Friday.

The Lightning (0-2) played without Katie Puishys (6-foot-2) and

Haywood Wright (6-1), their two tallest playersFreshman Kaitlin Tyres

and sophomore Rebecca Hembarsky took their places and scored four and

six points, respectively. Debbie Yoder-Lee led Sage with eight points

while Vicky Gutierrez and Allison Gonzalez each tallied six points.

Webb outscored the Lightning, 16-7, in the second quarter to take

a 24-16 halftime edge. Gutierrez led the Lightning with five rebounds

while Hembarsky grabbed four. Yoder-Lee finished with three assists.

The Lightning host Ocean View in a nonleague matchup at 7 p.m.

Monday.

*--*

Nonleague

Webb 33, Sage Hill 30

Score by Quarters

Vivian 8 16 3 6 -- 33

Sage 9 7 4 10 -- 30

Vivian -- Ho 3, Kalkat 2, Mitchell 2, Kent 26,

Chen 0, Garo 0, Silberg 0, Cook 0, Rae 0. 3-pt

goals -- None. Fouled out -- None. Technicals

-- None. Sage Hill -- Gutierrez 6, Hembarsky 6,

Yoder-Lee 8, Gonzalez 6, Tyres 4, Kaliski 0,

Schaeffer 0. 3-pt goals -- Gonzalez 1. Fouled

out -- None. Technicals -- None.

*--*

Costa Mesa wins two

* WATER POLO: Costa Mesa High’s girls water polo team earned two

victories Friday to continue pool play in the Bob Benson Memorial Cup

at El Dorado High in Placentia.

Mesa defeated Long Beach Poly, 3-2, in the first game with Jessica

Steenhard scoring the winning goal from the perimeter in the second

three-minute overtime period. Annie Lee and Allyson Harris also

tallied goals for Mesa while goalkeeper Quyen Nguyen recorded five

saves.

Mesa held on to defeat Arcadia, 7-6, in the second game.

Sarah Bowman scored her fifth goal of the game, which proved to be

the game-winner, with 42 seconds left in regulation to give the

Mustangs a two-goal edge. Johanna Stacey scored her second goal of

the game with 26 seconds left to cut the lead to 7-6.

Harris and Christine Twohig each added single goals while Nguyen

made seven saves.

Mesa wraps up pool play with two games at Valencia High in

Placentia. The first game is at 2 p.m.

Laguna defeats Sage

* BASKETBALL: Sage Hill overcame an early deficit to pull within

four points in the third quarter, but Laguna Beach’s athleticism won

out as the Breakers pulled away for a 56-35 victory in nonleague boys

basketball action Friday.

Kevin Joyce led Sage Hill (2-1) with 15 points.

Three sign with UCI

* VOLLEYBALL: The UC Irvine men’s volleyball program, which

finished with a No. 5 national ranking in 2003, has added some height

with three recruits who singed letters of intent recently to compete

for Coach John Speraw’s Anteaters.

UCI, with only four players taller than 6-foot-6 on its 2004

roster, including one senior, will count on 6-8 setter Ryan Ammerman,

6-7 opposite Jon Steller and 6-7 outside hitter Taylor Wilson to

elevate the program’s burgeoning national profile.

Wilson, a senior at Capistrano Valley High, was first-team

All-South Coast League last season. He plays for the Balboa Bay

Volleyball Club.

Local products All-Ivy

* VOLLEYBALL: Corona del Mar residents Lauren Grumet (Princeton)

and Jacqueline Becker (Yale) have been named All-Ivy League in

women’s volleyball.

Grumet, a 5-foot-8 outside hitter who attended Cate School in

Carpenteria as a prep, is a first-team choice after helping the

Tigers claim the Ivy crown with an 11-3 league record. She recorded

10 double-doubles (kills and blocks) in 14 Ivy matches.

Becker, a product of CdM High, is a second-team pick after

triggering the Yale offense. A 5-8 sophomore setter, she amassed

1,024 assists this fall, an average of 11.6 per game.

Wormely earns honor

* BASKETBALL: Horace Wormely, a 5-foot-6 starting point guard for

the Vanguard University men’s basketball team, has helped lead the

squad to a 4-3 start and has been named the school’s Lion of the

Week.

Wormely, a junior transfer from Pasadena City College, scored 10

points, dished out seven assists and grabbed five rebounds in the

Lions’ 61-60 victory over University of Mary Nov. 28. His final two

points came on a driving layup in the closing moments and proved to

be the game-winning basket.

He leads the team in assists (3.1 per game) and steals (2.43 per

game) and is second on the team in scoring (13.6 points per game).

Former Tar All-SCIAC

* VOLLEYBALL: University of Redlands freshman Shelley Langford, a

product of Newport Harbor High, has been named first-team

All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in

women’s volleyball.

The 5-foot-11 middle blocker, a member of the Sailors’ CIF

Southern Section Division II-AA champions last fall, helped Redlands

finish tied for second in the conference. The Bulldogs were 15-12,

9-5 against SCIAC foes.

The only underclassman among the coaches’ first-team,

all-conference selections, Langford led Redlands in blocks (73) and

was third on the team with 232 kills. She also had 36 service aces.