Sea Kings’ Miller earns MVP award

Corona del Mar High junior Wesley Miller, who won the Pacific Coast

League singles title, has been named the league’s Most Valuable

Player by PCL boys tennis coaches.

Miller is joined on the first team by teammates Carsten Ball, a

junior singles standout, and Spencer Reitz, also a junior singles

performer.

CdM is represented on the second team by doubles players Alex

Nguyen Ryan Caughren and Brennan Roberts.

Nguyen, a junior, teamed with Sean Pham to win the PCL doubles

crown, after playing most of the season with Roberts, a senior who

missed the league tournament due to advance-placement tests.

Caughren, a freshman, finished third in the league singles

tournament, though his regular-season contribution was primarily in

doubles.

These honorees helped lead CdM, the reigning CIF Southern Section

Division I champion and the No. 1 seed for this year’s playoffs, to

another Pacific Coast League crown.

Locals all at home

* VOLLEYBALL: All four Newport-Mesa boys volleyball teams will be

home Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the CIF Southern Section playoffs.

Estancia (24-6), the No. 1 seed in Division III, will meet Century

(10-5) in a second-round match after winning a coin flip with the

Orange League runner-up.

Corona del Mar (20-10), the No. 4 seed in Division II, plays host

to West Valley (17-0) in a second-round contest. The Citrus Belt

League champion swept Tustin in Friday’s first round, from which the

Sea Kings received a bye.

Newport Harbor (24-7) will play host to Long Beach Wilson in the

Division I second round. The Sailors won the coin flip with the

Bruins (28-5), who are champions of the Moore League. Wilson swept

at-large entry Alemany in the first round.

Sage Hill (16-1), which won the program’s first CIF playoff match

Friday, will play host to Viewpoint in the Division V quarterfinals.

Viewpoint swept visiting West Valley Christian, 25-13, 25-9, 25-6, in

Friday’s first round.

Mardh Lion of Week

* TENNIS: Vanguard University sophomore men’s tennis standout

Philip Mardh, whose victory at No. 5 singles was the decisive point

in a 5-0 NAIA Region II tournament semifinal victory over Pt. Loma

Nazarene May 6, has been named Lion of the Week by the school’s

athletic department.

Mardh, from Stockholm, Sweden, has been a big part of Vanguard’s

success in 2004. The NAIA’s No. 3-ranked team takes a 19-5 record

into the NAIA tournament next week in Mobile, Ala.

Mardh defeated Pt. Loma’s Josh Cowen, 6-0, 6-1, in Santa Barbara

to propel the Lions into the championship match won by top-ranked

Azusa Pacific.

A business administration major, Mardh is 18-3 in singles and 12-7

in doubles this season.

* Baseball summary:

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Big West Conference

Fullerton 7, UC Irvine 3

Score by Innings

CSUF 020 020 300 -- 7 11 1

UCI 011 010 000 -- 3 10 1

Martinez, Schreppel (6) and Suzuki;

Cassel, Schroer (5), Huff (7) and

Wagner. W -- Martinez, 6-2. L -- Cassel,

5-4. 2B -- Turner (CSUF), Szabo (UCI),

Dudrey (UCI).

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