Local trio advances

Corona del Mar High juniors Sean Pham and Alex Nguyen, along with

Newport Harbor sophomore Robert Khoury, each reached the round of 16

in the CIF Southern Section boys doubles and singles championships,

respectively, Saturday.

The Pacific Coast League champions had a bye, then defeated

Walnut’s Shawn Yang and Alvin Luk, 6-1, 6-3, in the second round at

Costa Mesa Tennis Center.

Nguyen and Pham followed with a 4-6, 7-6 (7-0), 11-9 triumph over Long Nguyen and Randy Ignacio from Garden Grove, after trailing, 9-4,

in the super tiebreaker.

Nguyen and Pham are tentatively scheduled to begin their round of

16 match at 1 p.m. Friday at SeaCliff Country Club in Huntington

Beach.

Khoury had a first-round bye, then defeated Pacific’s Zack Au,

6-1, 6-1. The Sea View League runner-up then downed Eddie Leu from

Rio Hondo, 6-3, 6-0.

Khoury also advanced to Friday’s round of 16 at SeaCliff. The

quarterfinals are scheduled later Friday while the semifinals and

finals are scheduled for Saturday.

CdM junior Wesley Miller, the PCL league individual champion, was

a half-hour late for his CIF second-round match and had to default.

Miller was supposed to start his second-round match at a United

States Tennis Association national open in Torrance, where he is

seeded 10th, at 1:30 p.m., but play was delayed an hour and he

couldn’t return in time for his 3 p.m. CIF match at Costa Mesa.

Miller, seeded third in CIF, defeated Garden Grove League champion

Clifford York, 6-1, 6-1, in the first round.

In Torrance, the 10th-seeded Miller won both matches to advance to

today’s round of 16.

In other CIF singles action Saturday, Sage Hill junior Tristan

Cordier defeated Mitchell Grajeda, the Mountain View League champion,

6-4, 6-2, in the first round before falling to Jonathan Sanchez from

Servite, one of the top five seeds, 6-1, 6-0.

Cordier won 16 straight points in the first set against Grajeda.

Estancia sophomore Scott Braunsdorf, the Golden West League

individual champion, dropped his first-round match to El Toro’s

Mitchell Brown, 6-0, 6-2.

Anteaters finish 21st

* GOLF: UCLA won the title with a 54-hole score of 1-over 865, one

shot ahead of New Mexico, while UC Irvine finished tied for 21st at

the NCAA regional men’s golf championships at Crosswater in Sunriver,

Ore., Saturday.

. USC and BYU tied for fifth place at 881 and Pepperdine was ninth

at 884 as the top 10 teams advance to the NCAA Championships at The

Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., June 1-4.

UCLA’s Travis Johnson and Arizona’s Chris Nallen tied for the top

spot individually with 5-under totals of 211.