Sea Kings rout Laguna

Rachel Yelsey scored a pair of goals and Kelly Morgan had two assists

as Corona del Mar High’s girls soccer team routed visiting Laguna

Beach, 4-1, Tuesday.

The Sea Kings (7-6-2, 4-1-1 in league) remained within striking

distance of first place going into Thursday’s key Pacific Coast

League battle at Tesoro.

Yelsey opened the scoring in the 12th minute off an assist from

Morgan. Courtney Carnahan added a goal seven minutes later.

Corona del Mar added two second-half goals, with Yelsey scoring

off an assist from Jessica Mazura and Mazura adding a goal of her own

off an assist from Morgan.

Katie Schiesser was forced to make just one save for the Sea

Kings.

Mesa shoots for victory

* BASKETBALL: Costa Mesa High’s boys basketball team shot 50% from

three-point range, opened up a 33-point halftime lead and cruised to

a 66-28 Golden West League over visiting Saddleback Monday.

Scott Knox hit six of the Mustangs’ 15 three-pointers, leading all

scorers with 19 points. Jeff Waldron added 16 points and 10 rebounds.

Costa Mesa limited the Roadrunners to 10 points in the first half,

including two in the second quarter, opening a 43-10 lead at

intermission.

The Mustangs will take on first-place Ocean View Thursday at home

at 7 p.m.

*--*

Golden West League

Costa Mesa 66, Saddleback 28

Score by Quarters

Saddleback 8 2 4 14 -- 28

Costa Mesa 22 21 12 11 -- 66

Saddleback -- Sanchez 5, May 5, Alonso 2,

Washington 2, Morales 3, Zavala 5, Fitzgerald

6. 3-pt. goals -- Sanchez 1, Morales 1. Costa

Mesa -- Molina 9, Knox 19, Krikorian 6, Waldron 16, Stankovic 0, Gandia 5, Wase 2,

Aleson 4, Lefevbre 5. 3-pt. goals -- Molina

3, Knox 6, Krikorian 2, Waldron 2, Gandia 1,

Lefevbre 1.

*--*

Knights topple Sailors

* BASKETBALL: The Newport Harbor High girls basketball team

couldn’t hold a 21-17 halftime lead and lost to host Foothill, 39-36,

Tuesday to open the second round of Sea View League play.

The Knights, who defeated Newport, 43-37, Jan. 8, outscored the

Sailors, 12-4, in the third quarter to gain control, but still had to

hold off a late charge.

Senior Victoria Swigart hit one of her two three-pointers with

1:30 remaining to trim Foothill’s deficit to one. Foothill’s Angelina

Herman hit two free throws with 11 seconds left and the Sailors

(12-9, 3-3) couldn’t convert their final shot attempt.

Swigart, Vanessa Miller, Kristi Eddington and Jillianne Whitfield

each scored eight points while Allyson Stoltz tallied six points for

Newport.

Senior Jenna Horton paced Foothill (13-8, 3-3) with 19 points.

The Sailors shot 16 of 44 from the field (36.3%).

Newport and Foothill are each in second place, three games behind

league-leading Woodbridge, which improved to 6-0 with a 48-40 victory

over Aliso Niguel Tuesday.

The Tars face host Aliso at 7 p.m. Thursday.

*--*

Sea View League

Foothill 39, Newport Harbor 36

Score by Quarters

Newport 13 8 4 11 -- 36

Foothill 10 7 12 10 -- 39

Newport -- Swigart 8, Stoltz 6, Whitfield 8,

MiIler 8, Eddington 8, Koon 0, Melo 0,

Lawrence 0. 3-pt. goals -- Swigart 2. Fouled

out -- Miller. Foothill -- Karcher 0, Horton

19, Bagley 4, Herman 10, Batley 2, Folick 2,

Cano 2. 3-pt. goals -- Horton 1. Fouled out -

Bagley.

*--*

Sage blanks Oxford

* SOCCER: Sage Hill School’s boys soccer team remained undefeated

in the Academy League with a 4-0 Academy League victory over visiting

Oxford Academy Tuesday.

The Lightning (7-4, 5-0 in league) scored one goal in the first

half and three more in the final 40 minutes, while senior goalie

Cesar Arriaga recorded four saves to help produce the shutout.

Freshman Tyler Ellis opened the scoring for Sage on an unassisted

goal midway through the first half. Senior Braden Barnett followed in

the second half, with his first career goal on an assist from Jordan

Salinger. Then junior Ian Dull found the back of the net with an

unassisted goal.

Sophomore Zack Milder rounded out the Lightning’s scoring with a

goal on an assist by Ellis. Oxford dropped to 5-5-2, 3-2.

Sage knocks off Oxford

* BASKETBALL: Debbie Yoder-Lee scored six of her 11 points in the fourth quarter and Sage Hill School’s girls basketball team staved

off Oxford Academy, 31-26, Tuesday in an Academy League game.

The Lightning improved to 8-7 overall and 3-2 in league. Sophomore

Haywood Wright contributed five points, seven rebounds, five assists

and two blocks and junior Katie Puishys had 10 points and 11 rebounds. Sophomore Rebecca Hembarsky also added 10 points.

*--*

Academy League

Sage Hill 31, Oxford Academy 26

Score by Quarters

Oxford 7 3 8 8 -- 26

Sage Hill 7 7 6 11 -- 31

Oxford -- Ambatali 5, Chew 6, Kim 2, Schrader 5,

Togashi 8. 3-pt. goals -- Schrader 1, Togashi 2.

Sage Hill -- Yoder-Lee 11, Wright 5, Schaefer 0,

Puishys 10, Hembarsky 10, Gutierrez 1, Tyre 2.

*--*

Lancers edge Lions

* BASKETBALL: A spirited comeback by the Vanguard University men’s

basketball team fell just short Tuesday as visiting Cal Baptist

escaped with a 69-67 Golden State Athletic Conference victory.

The Lions (9-11, 2-7 in conference) rebounded from a 14-point

halftime deficit and had a chance to win the game in the final 14

seconds, but a last-ditch three-pointer didn’t fall. Khary Lands’

layin on the previous possession gave Cal Baptist (11-10, 4-5) the

winning margin. Lands, along with Vanguard’s Josh Pierson, each

scored 15 points.

Brian Kim scored 14 points while Leon Rosborough and Horace

Wormely each tallied 12 points for the Lions, who shot 59.1% in the

second half (13 of 22) compared to a 9-of-26 performance (34.6%) in

the first 20 minutes.

Vanguard took its only lead of the game, 65-64, on a 15-footer by

Kim with 4:03 to play.

.

*--*

Golden State Athletic Conference

Cal Baptist 69, Vanguard 67

Cal Baptist -- Lands 15, Bailey 2, Fritts 12, Holmes 11, Ojanen 6, Seidel 13, Pierre-Fanfan 10, Buchanan 0. 3-pt. goals -- Fritts 3, Holmes 1, Ojanen 1, Seidel 1. Vanguard -- Wormely 12, Burnette 7, Pierson 15, Rosborough 12, Kim 14, Seekins 4, Dalafu

3, McGee 0, Cotter 0, Watson 0. 3-pt. goals -- Pierson 3, Rosborough 2, Kim 1, Dalafu 1, Wormely 1. Halftime -- Cal Baptist, 41-27.

*--*

Sage finishes poorly

* BASKETBALL: Oxford Academy closed out Sage Hill School’s boys

basketball team with a 13-0 run over the final four minutes for a

49-37 Academy League victory.

The Lightning, which trailed by as many as 11 points early in the

second quarter, closed the gap to one entering the fourth period.

Sage Hill (9-9, 1-4) went on to take a 37-36 lead with four minutes

left, but didn’t score in the remainder of the contest.

Kevin Joyce and Matt Loper each had 18 points for the Lightning.

Tim Lefler, with one point, was the only other Sage player to score.

*--*

Academy League

Oxford Academy 49, Sage Hill 37

Score by Quarters

Oxford 18 7 5 19 -- 49

Sage Hill 11 11 7 8 -- 37 Oxford -- Hunt 2, Barbosa 14, Fermanian 19,

Thompson 6, De Los Reyes 8. 3-pt. goals --

Barbosa 2, De Los Reyes 2. Sage Hill -- Loper

18, Joyce 18, Lefler 1, Voge 0, Wilkins 0,

Hancock 0, Samel 0, Derheim 0. 3-pt. goals --

Loper 1, Joyce 1.

*--*

Breakers beat up CdM

* BASKETBALL: A scoreless second quarter doomed the host Corona

del Mar High girls basketball team and it never recovered as visiting

Laguna Beach posted a 46-20 Pacific Coast League victory Tuesday

night.

The Breakers led, 13-9, after one quarter, but outscored the Sea

Kings, 12-0, in the second quarter, and were never threatened.

“We didn’t do anything right,” CdM Coach James Barkalow said. “We

missed a lot of easy buckets and that was just compounded by a lack

of effort on defense. In the end, it put us in a hole we couldn’t dig

out of. They beat us in every facet of the game.”

Colleen Marks led the Sea Kings (7-12, 2-4 in league) with eight

points while Megan Benbow added four.

Lauren Snell led CdM with seven rebounds. Laguna Beach improved to

2-4 in league with the win.

CdM faces host Tesoro at 7 p.m. Thursday.

*--*

Pacific Coast League

Laguna Beach 46, Corona del Mar 20

Score by Quarters

Laguna Beach 13 12 7 14 -- 46

CdM 9 0 6 5 -- 20

Laguna Beach -- Clark 6, Awadalla 0, Roley 9,

Sexton 9, Kendrick 4, Hairston 2, Grant 0,

Eaves 2, Ventura 4, Bevacqua 10. CdM -- Benbow

4, Marks 8, Stern 0, Schulte 3, Skalla 0,

Snell 3, Wayte 0, Wadhwa 0, Long 0, Heeschen

0, Kawata 0, Duernberger 2. 3-pt. goals --

Marks 2.

*--*

Lightning on short end

* SOCCER: Sage Hill School girls soccer coach Amy Ray said her

team dominated host Oxford Academy, but fell, 1-0, in an Academy

League game Tuesday.

The Patriots (5-4-1, 4-1 in league) scored with 10 minutes left on

a penalty kick.

“It was a bad call,” Ray said. “Both referees were letting us play

physical and they called it on this one, which shouldn’t have been.

It was just unfortunate. There were times [the Patriots] were

outplaying us, but for the most part we were dominating them.”

Laura Gordon anchored the defense with four saves, while sweeper

Emily Webb also stood out.

Sage Hill, which had four shots on goal, dropped to 5-5-2, 1-3-1.