Sailors surge in second half

Newport Harbor High’s girls basketball team erased a 10-point

halftime deficit and earned a 52-45 victory against Estancia in the

first round of the University tournament at University High Saturday.

Newport Harbor (2-0) went on a 14-0 run to begin the third quarter

and took advantage of the thin Eagles, who had just six players.

Lindsey Miller scored a team-high 17 points followed by 14 from

Kristi Eddington and 10 from Allyson Stoltz.

Junior guard Imelda Pena led all scorers with 18 points followed

by 17 from Nancy Castro. Castro and Pena combined for 25 of

Estancia’s 29 first-half points.

“We held them to 12 in the second half,” Newport Coach Jen

Thompson said. “We don’t have a lot of height this year, but in two

games we have done a tremendous job of boxing out.”

Newport grabbed 40 rebounds a day after tallying 35 against CdM.

Whitfield had nine boards while Miller (seven), Victoria Swigart

(six), Eddington (five), April Slater (five) and Stoltz (five) also

contributed on the glass.

Estancia continues the 16-team tournament at 8 p.m. Monday while

Newport plays again at the same time on Tuesday against the winner of

Esperanza and Tesoro.

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University tournament First round

Newport Harbor 52, Estancia 45

Score by Quarters

Newport 13 6 19 14 -- 52

Estancia 13 16 5 11 -- 45

Newport -- Swigart 2, Stoltz 10, Whitfield 7, Miller 17, Eddington 14, Trobman 0, Koon 0,

Melo 0 , Slater 0, Deyan 0, Lawrence 2. 3-pt.

goals - Miller 2. Fouled out -- None.

Technicals -- None.

Estancia -- Wase 6, Neal 2, Pena 18,

Maldonado 2, Castro 17, Becerra 0. 3-pt.

goals -- Pena 3. Fouled out -- None.

Technicals - None.

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Mesa captures consolation

* WATER POLO: Sarah Bowman scored five goals for the second

consecutive game to give the Costa Mesa High girls water polo team

the consolation championship of the Bob Benson Memorial Cup after a

13-7 victory over Bell Gardens at Valencia High in Placentia

Saturday.

Allyson Harris found back of the cage four times while Jessica

Steenhard, Chandra Malapira, Christine Twohig and Carley Millian each

tallied one goal for Mesa (3-2), which finished 18th of 32 teams.

Harris scored five goals in Mesa’s 7-6 victory over Arcadia Friday.

Quyen Nguyen made nine saves in goal for the Mustangs, who return

to action when they host El Modena in a nonleague game at 3:15 p.m.

Tuesday.