Sage Hill suffers first loss

Senior Matt Loper tallied a team-high 13 points while freshman Jamie

McGee added 11 points off the bench, but the Sage Hill School boys

basketball team suffered its first loss, a 46-36 setback to Coronado,

in the second round of the La Jolla Country Day tournament Thursday.

Sage Hill (3-1) held a 19-18 lead at halftime, but Coronado (3-0)

outscored the Lightning, 28-17, in the final two periods.

The Lightning climbed within 30-26 in the third quarter, but got

no closer the rest of the way. Mike Voge scored six points while Tim

Lefter and Michael Morgan each added two for Sage, which competes in

a consolation-round game at 4:30 p.m. today at Santa Fe High.

Sage suffered a blow when starting freshman point guard Nick Witte

went down with a shoulder injury in the first half, assistant coach

Greg Haskell said.

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La Jolla Country Day tournament

Second round Coronado 46, Sage Hill 36

Score by Quarters

Coronado 4 14 12 16 -- 46

Sage Hill 8 11 7 10 -- 36

Coronado -- Guard 15, Smith 12, Famman 4, Reed

2, Marks 4, Bimuns 4, Munns 2, Manuado 2,

Zeller 1, Spitzer 0, Zapatka 0. 3-pt. goals --

None. Fouled out -- None. Technicals -- Bench

(2). Sage -- Ogron 2, Witte 0, Lefler 2, Voge

6, Loper 13, McGee 11, Morgan 2, Webster 0,

Rose 0, Hancock 0. 3-pt. goals -- McGee 1.

Fouled out -- Lefler, Voge. Technicals --

None.

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Kent signs with L.A.

* BASEBALL: Jeff Kent, an all-star second baseman who played for

the Houston Astros last season, agreed to a two-year contract with

the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday at the Blue Water Grill’s Costa Mesa

restaurant.

His father, Al, is retired from the Costa Mesa Police Department.

Mustangs go down

* BASKETBALL: The Costa Mesa High boys basketball team lost to

Northwood, 62-47, in both teams’ second day of pool play in the Bill

Reynolds Classic Thursday at Newport Harbor High.

The Timberwolves (2-2) capitalized on 20 Mesa turnovers throughout

the game and more than doubled the Mustangs’ fourth-quarter points.

Mesa (0-2) plays Newport Harbor today at 6:30 p.m. in the same

tournament.

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Bill Reynolds Classic

Northwood 62, Costa Mesa 47

Score by Quarters

Northwood 11 23 10 18 -- 62

Costa Mesa 12 15 13 7 -- 47

Northwood -- Z. Zaragoza 10, O’Brien 9,

Selway 2, Keough 7, Alkhas 4, Kapil 4, T.

Zaragoza 2. 3-pt. goals -- Keough 1. Fouled

out -- None. Technicals -- None. Mesa --

Molina 9, Knox 7, Krikorian 11, Wase 2,

Lefebvre 2, Waldron 10, Aleson 6. 3-pt. goals

-- Molina 1, Knox 1, Krikorian 1. Fouled out

-- None. Technicals -- None.

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Grove takes Harbor

* BASKETBALL: The Newport Harbor High boys basketball team lost to

Pleasant Grove, 51-46, in both teams’ second day of pool play in the

Bill Reynolds Classic Thursday at Newport Harbor.

Senior Brett Perrine led the Sailors (0-3) with 15 points, while junior Tony Yahigan had 14. Newport plays Costa Mesa today at 6:30

p.m. in the same tournament.

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Bill Reynolds Classic

Pleasant Grove 51, Newport Harbor 46

Score by Quarters

P. Grove 13 10 13 15 -- 51

Newport 7 18 12 9 -- 46

Grove -- Tucker 2, Bibro 10, Johnson 4,

Thurgood 6, Wilkes 2, Wood 9, Atkinson 18.

3-pt. goals -- Thurgood 2, Wood 1. Fouled out

-- Barraclough. Technicals -- None. Newport

-- Yahigan 14, Perrine 15, Stevens 1, Slater

5, Koon 7, Heenan 4. 3-pt. goals -- Yahigan

2. Fouled out -- None. Technicals -- None.

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Dolphins edge Sailors

* SURFING: The host Newport Harbor High surf team took visiting

Dana Hills to the limit, but fell to 1-4 with an 85-83 South Coast

League loss at 56th Street on Thursday.

The meet wasn’t decided until the final heat, which went to a

fifth-wave tiebreaker.

Newport scored three victories -- the boys short board and body

board teams along with the girls short board squad.

The boys short board squad improved to 3-2 on the season with a

45-39 victory. Brian Doheny scored the best wave (7) of the contest.

Daniel Shea, Joey Head and Steve Farmer each placed first in their

heats for the third time this season while Doheny, J.J. Frei and

Brett Catron each finished second in their respective heats. Regan

Riley took third in the third heat.

Sailors’ Lisa Turk and Devon Falasco finished first and third,

respectively, in the girls short board division while the body board

team won, 12-9. Matt Kretschmar, who averaged 4.9, and Harry Tully

placed first and second, respectively, helping the squad improve to

2-2.

Both boys and girls long board teams lost to fall to 1-4 this

season. Tanner Prairie and Turk each placed third in their respective

divisions.

The Sailors host Los Alamitos Tuesday at 56th Street in Newport

Beach.

Sea Kings stumble

* SOCCER: The Corona del Mar High girls soccer team fell to

Mission Viejo, 4-0, in the first round of the Mater Dei tournament

Thursday at Mater Dei.

The Sea Kings (1-3) gave up three goals in the first half as they

adjusted to the artificial turf field, and gave up only one goal in

the second half.

CdM faces Arcadia, ranked No. 1 in CIF Southern Section Division

II, today at 5 p.m. in the same tournament.

CdM gets bounced

* BASKETBALL: The Corona del Mar High girls basketball team was

pummeled by Muir, 78-31, in each team’s third game of pool play in

the Duarte tournament Thursday at Duarte High.

Muir’s (4-0) Tierra Henderson racked up a game-high 34 points and

the Mustangs used a 26-2 first quarter run to jump out to an early

lead that the Sea Kings (1-5) couldn’t recover from.

Junior Katie Schulte had a team-high 14 points for CdM, while

junior Andrea Wayte had six. CdM plays in the third-place game of the

tournament Saturday at 11:30 a.m.

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Duarte tournament

Muir 78, Corona del Mar 31

Score by Quarters

CdM 2 16 7 6 -- 31

Muir 26 18 19 15 -- 78

CdM -- K. Wayte 2, A.Wayte 6, Johnson 2,

Wadhwa 2, Schulte 14, Duernberger 3, Marks 2,

Glanders 2. 3-pt. goals -- None. Fouled out

-- None. Technicals -- None. Muir -- Amofa 8,

Andrews 7, Cooper 4, Henderson 34, Mitchell

4, Smith 2, Snelgro 9, Williams 2. 3-pt.

goals -- Henderson 1, Amofa 1. Fouled out -- None. Technicals -- None.

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