Estancia nearing Golden West title

The Estancia High boys golf team moved closer to a Golden West League

championship Thursday, defeating host Orange, 212-216, at El Prado

Golf Course in Chino.

Marcus Sostak shot 3-over-par 39 to lead the Eagles and earn

medalist honors, while Jason Les (41), Nick Lettrieri (42), Austin

Serr (44), and Greg Les (46) also scored for the winners.

Estancia improved to 10-5, 5-0 in league with just three league

matches remaining.

Sea Kings roll over Titans

* GOLF: Rob Ury birdied three holes and shot a 1-over-par 36 to lead the host Corona del Mar High boys golf team to a 189-194 Pacific

Coast League victory over Tesoro at Newport Beach Country Club

Thursday.

Alex Chikovani shot 37 while Ben Tilsen (38), Zach Rabinovich

(39), Jamie Bloom (39) and Eric Miller (40) contributed for CdM (6-9,

4-2 in league). Matt Story also shot 40.

OCC players advance

* TENNIS: Orange Coast College teammates Sabrina Tanamal and Leah

Becker each reached the quarterfinals in singles and teamed to reach

the doubles final after play in the Orange Empire Conference

tournament at Santa Ana College Thursday.

Becker and Tanamal also qualified for the Southern California

regional tournament April 30 at Fullerton College in doubles and

singles.

Becker and Tanamal, the top-seeded doubles team, defeated

Riverside’s Chrissy Lee and Trisha Robles (No. 3 seed) , 6-1, 4-6,

6-3, to earn a spot in today’s final, tentatively scheduled for 5:15

p.m.

Tars face little resistance

* TENNIS: Senior Charlie Farmer lost just one game in sweeping at

No. 1 singles while two doubles teams earned victories for the

Newport Harbor High boys tennis team in its 15-3 Sea View League

victory over visiting Aliso Niguel Thursday.

Grant Casserly and Derek Davis, along with Ruslan Serydyk and

Dylan Espley-Jones, swept in doubles for the Sailors (11-5, 5-1 in

league).

UCI’s Turpin fifth

* TRACK AND FIELD: UC Irvine senior Annmarie Turpin finished fifth

in the Mt. San Antonio College Relays heptathlon that concluded at

Azusa Pacific University Thursday.

Turpin was the top collegiate finisher in the field with a

career-best 5,332 points, which is an NCAA provisional-qualifying

mark.

In Thursday’s events, Turpin recorded marks of 18 feet, 1 inch in

the long jump, 126-10 in the javelin throw and 2 minutes, 21.39

seconds in the 800 meters.

In the California Invitational decathlon that ended at Azusa

Pacific Thursday, UCI senior Jon Stewart finished ninth in Division A

with 6,648 points and freshman Eric Nyberg was 10th in Division B

with 6,112 points.

Wolverines silence Tars

* SOFTBALL: Visiting Aliso Niguel High scored seven runs in the

top of the fifth inning to pad its lead and shut out Newport Harbor,

9-0, for the second time in three days, in a Sea View league softball

game Thursday.

Junior Ashley Gleason, who took the loss for Newport, Julianne

Bass and Betsy Martin tallied the team’s three hits. Martin’s single

was her first hit this season.

Hornets outslug Pirates

* BASEBALL: Host Fullerton College scored three unearned runs with

two outs in the bottom of the sixth to distance themselves enough to

defeat Orange Coast, 15-11, in a seesaw Orange Empire Conference

baseball game Thursday.

OCC (9-17, 3-11 in conference) committed four straight errors in

the sixth as the Hornets scored their runs with no hits.

OCC’s Hoevel loses

* TENNIS: Orange Coast College’s Mike Hoevel lost to Irvine

Valley’s John Mousel, 6-0, 6-7 (6-8), 6-4, in the second round of the

Orange Empire Conference men’s singles tournament Thursday at Cypress

College.