Duarte repeats first-team honors

Costa Mesa High junior Nilani Duarte earned first-team All-CIF

Southern Section Division III honors for the second straight year in

girls soccer, leading a Newport-Mesa quartet that also received

All-CIF recognition.

Duarte played the midfield for Costa Mesa, helping lead Coach Dan

Johnston’s Mustangs (16-6) to an appearance in the second round of

the CIF Division III playoffs.

Costa Mesa junior Jasmin Day (Division III) and Sage Hill School

junior Laura Gordon (Division VI), garnered second-team All-CIF

laurels. Corona del Mar senior Kinzie Kramer was a third-team All-CIF

performer in Division II.

Day, the Golden West League individual champion in cross country,

scored 16 goals for the Mustangs, who won their second straight

Golden West League title. Day was selected to the All-CIF second team

last year, when Costa Mesa won a share of the CIF title.

Gordon, who played goalie for the Lightning’s girls squad,

contributed on defense, as Sage Hill collected its first CIF playoff

berth in its four-year history.

Kramer, the Sea Kings’ senior team captain, played sweeper for

Corona del Mar, which finished third in the Pacific Coast League with

a 6-3-1 record, 9-9-2 overall. The Sea Kings lost, 2-1, in overtime

to El Dorado in the first round of the CIF Division II playoffs.