Lightning boys tennis beats previously unbeaten San Dimas, 14-4

For the first time in the program’s four-year history, the Sage Hill

School boys tennis team will play in the CIF Southern Section

Division V quarterfinals.

The third-seeded Lightning rolled past visiting and previously

undefeated San Dimas, 14-4, in a second-round match at Park Newport

Thursday.

Sage Hill will play Cate, a 16-2 winner over Don Bosco Tech, at 2

p.m. Tuesday. A coin flip will determine the site.

The Lightning (14-4) claimed all nine doubles sets against San

Dimas (16-1).

Ian Livingston and partner Dan Chin, along with the duos of

Michael Cassel and Michael Garrison and Conrad Whitaker and Tyler

Ross, each won three matches.

Tristan Cordier, the Lightning’s No. 1 singles player, won three

sets while Ara Dimirjian won twice.

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CIF Division V

Second round

Sage Hill 14, San Dimas 4

Singles -- Cordier def C. Ardary, 6-3, def. Siddiam, 7-6 (9-7), def. McCabe, 6-3; Dimirjian (SH) won, 6-4, 6-1, lost, 2-6; Wee (SH) lost, 2-6, 2-6, 3-6. Doubles -- Livingston-Chin (SH) def. Castudea-DeCamp, 6-2, def. G. Ardary-Parlan, 6-1, def.

Nguyen-Ordiano, 6-4; Cassel-Garrison (SH) won, 7-5, 7-5, 6-0; Whitaker-Ross (SH) won, 6-3, 6-1, 7-5.

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UC Irvine trio at 3-over

* GOLF: UC Irvine men’s golfers Jay Choe, Will Park and Neno

Boonyaplanun each shot 3-over-par 75 in the first round of the NCAA

West regional Thursday at the Crosswater Club at Sunriver Resort in

Sunriver, Ore.

All three shot par on the front nine, before picking up three

bogeys on the back nine.

UCI’s Vinnie Poncino, who bogeyed the final four holes, shot 78

while teammate Derek Uyesaka carded an 80.

The UCI players start on the 10th hole Friday with the Anteaters’

first tee time at 1:36 p.m.

This is the fourth straight season that UCI has advanced to

regional competition.

VU men, women fall

* TENNIS: The Vanguard University men’s and women’s tennis teams

both lost in the semifinals of the NAIA championships.

The Lions’ women were defeated, 5-0, by top-seeded Auburn

University Montgomery (Ala.) at the Mobile Tennis Center in Mobile,

Ala., while the VU men were 5-3 victims of Golden State Athletic

Conference rival and No. 1-ranked Azusa Pacific.

The Vanguard women, who won the GSAC title, ended the longest

postseason run in the program’s history with a 24-3 record. Vanguard

junior Olga Hlushchanka’s unblemished singles record remained

spotless. She had won her first set, 6-4, when her match was halted

after the Senators (21-2) built an insurmountable lead.

The Vanguard men received singles wins from freshman Dieter

Weislmaier (6-2, 6-3 over Boris Bakalov) and junior Anders Hakansson

(6-2, 6-3 over David Goodman) and the Lions’ doubles team of

Hakansson and junior Lars Dahlberg also won its set, 8-6.

The men, who lost all four meetings to APU this season, finish

21-6. They matched their third-place NAIA finish of 2000.

APU (31-1) meets Auburn Montgomery in today’s title match.