Sage alone in second

The Sage Hill School baseball team secured second place in the

Academy League Thursday by traveling to Capistrano Valley Christian

and coming away with a 15-11 victory.

Lightning Coach Bert Emerson called the game “sloppy,” but Sage

Hill pulled out the win after getting even in the league standings

with a 5-4 win over Capo Valley Tuesday. Sage Hill, 14-7 and 11-4 in league, got a team win according to Emerson, with multiple players

getting key hits and driving in runs.

Stewart second in decathlon

* TRACK AND FIELD: UC Irvine senior Jon Stewart was second in the

decathlon with a career-high 6,658 points Thursday in the Big West

Conference championships at UC Irvine.

Idaho junior Jereme Richardson won the decathlon while Long Beach

State’s Ami Goldhammer won the women’s heptathlon. UC Irvine senior

Annmarie Turpin, the defending champion, did not compete in the

heptathlon Thursday because of a hamstring injury sustained during

the 200 meters Wednesday.

Stewart’s second-place finish is UCI’s highest in the decathlon

since Gregor Neumann won the event in 1993. Stewart, who was fourth

in the event a year ago, went a career-high 14 feet, 4 inches in the

pole vault Thursday, with other marks of 16.03 in the 110-meter

hurdles, 137-2 in the discus, 172-9 in the javelin and 5:02.96 in the

1,500 meters.

Trio will play in sectionals

* GOLF: Newport Beach residents Steve Conway and Eric Vallely,

along with Santa Ana Country Club member Justin Boatman, were three

of eight players who advanced to sectional qualifying for the U.S.

Open after local qualifying held Wednesday at Newport Beach Country

Club.

Conway, a senior on the UCLA men’s golf team, which is ranked

third in the country, and Boatman each shot 4-under-par 67 while

Vallely carded a 68.

The trio will compete at one of 13 sectional qualifying sites June

7 at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City, Calif.

The 104th U.S. Open will be held June 17-20 at Shinnecock Hills

Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y.

Wallis wins award again

* BASEBALL: UC Irvine’s Greg Wallis was named to the Academic

All-America All-District VIII first team for the second consecutive

year. Wallis has a .304 batting average, 14 hits, three doubles, and

a home run in 30 games for the Anteaters. The junior political

science major is a five-time Dean’s List member and a three-time Big

West Scholar Athlete.

Newport season ends

* SOFTBALL: The Newport Harbor High softball team ended its season

at Woodbridge with a 1-0 defeat Thursday. The Sailors finished the

season 8-15-1 and 1-9 in the Sea View League.

Deannie Plemon doubled in the fifth inning and Krista Seeman

singled her in for the only run of the game. Seeman also had seven

strikeouts and gave up one hit, a single to Jennifer Gummerman.

Newport Coach Mike Davis said he was happy with the way his team

finished the season playing what he said was their best defensive

game of the year.

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Sea View League

Woodbridge 1, Newport Harbor 0

Score by Innings:

Newport 000 000 -- 0 1 0

W’bridge 000 01x -- 1 3 1

Gleason and Bass; Seeman and Peterson. W --

Seeman, 9-6. L -- Gleason, 6-12. 2B -- Plemon (W).

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* Baseball summary:

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Academy League

Sage Hill 15, Capistrano Valley Christian

11

Score by Innings

Sage 532 023 0 -- 15 11 5

Capo 042 100 4 -- 11 8 8

Loper, Packard (4), Salinger (7) and B.

Kornsweit; Hughes, T. Mitchell (3),

Pickell (7) and Ward. W - Packard 2-2. L

- Hughes 6-2. 2B- C. Mitchell (CVC),

Hanten (CVC), T. Mitchell(CVC). 3B --

Loper (SH).

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