Disney finishes first in regatta

The marquee for the First Team Real Estate invitational regatta May

19-22 proclaims “The World’s Biggest, Fastest Sailboats,” and they

showed it last weekend in the world’s largest international yacht

race.

Led by Roy Disney’s maxZ86, Pyewacket, the first 10 monohulls to

finish the 58th Newport-to-Ensenada contest were boats that will be

racing around the buoys off Newport Beach next month.

Pyewacket was followed closely by Doug Baker’s Magnitude 80, Mike

Campbell and Dale Williams’ new Peligroso and Randall Pittman’s

90-foot Genuine Risk. Within the next 2 1/2 hours came David Janes

sailing the Newport Sea Base’s Scout Spirit, Paul Sharp’s Taxi

Dancer, Bob Lane’s Medicine Man, Mark Jones’s Flash, Ed McDowell’s

Grand Illusion and John MacLaurin’s Pendragon IV.

Though winds to Ensenada were generally light, depriving him of an

opportunity to attack his own record, Disney said Pyewacket and the

others made the most of what breeze they had.

Eagles remain perfect

* TRACK AND FIELD: The Estancia High boys track and field team

remains perfect in the Golden West League after a 90-34 dismantling

of Westminster Wednesday.

Bryce McKendry, the county’s second-best long jumper, tripled for

the Eagles (6-0) to win the high jump, long jump and triple jump

while Josh Hendrickson won the 300-meter intermediate hurdles, placed

second in the 110 high hurdles and was third in the triple jump.

The Estancia girls lost, 74-54, with Karina Rios winning the 1,600

and 3,200, and Jai Hellmich winning the high jump and triple jump.

The boys enter Thursday’s league finals at Orange Coast College in

the top league spot and are looking for their second title in three

years. League preliminaries are Monday.

CdM tops Sunny Hills

* TENNIS: The Corona del Mar boys tennis team defeated host Sunny

Hills, 11-7, in a nonleague match Wednesday.

In singles, Wesley Miller and Fabian Mathews swept each of their

sets, as Spencer Reitz and Jonathon Kroopf swept in the No. 2

doubles.

The Sea Kings visit Tesoro today in a Pacific Coast League match.

Nonleague

Corona del Mar 11, Sunny Hills 7 Singles -- Miller (CdM) def. Eraso, 6-2, def. Hong, 6-1, def.

Daily, 6-0; Pham (CdM) lost 2-6, 0-6, 2-6; Mathews (CdM) won, 6-4,

6-3, 6-1.

Doubles -- Chou and Caughren (CdM) lost to Hong and Cabinilla,

3-6, def. Lee and Choi, 6-0, def. Shon and Shah, 6-3; Reitz and

Kroopf (CdM) won, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; Nguyen and Pham (CdM) lost, 2-6;

(sub)Tat and Leonard (CdM) lost, 0-6, 1-6.

Sailors escape, 10-8

* TENNIS: The Newport Harbor High boys tennis team escaped with a

10-8 Sea View League victory over Foothill at Tustin Hills Racquet

Club Wednesday.

Jake Fleming swept at the No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-1, 6-0, while

Dylan Espley-Jones swept at the No. 3 singles, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.

The Sailors (6-8, 5-4 in league) compete at Laguna Hills today at

3 p.m.

Sea View League

Newport Harbor 10, Foothill 8

Singles -- Fleming (NH) def. Katzman, 6-1, def. Neuman, 6-1, def.

Gouthany, 6-0; Hutchinson (NH) won 6-2, lost 3-6, won 6-1;

Espley-Jones (NH) won, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.

Doubles -- MacLaren and Friend (NH) lost to Roybal and Lo, 2-6,

lost to Gonda and Croudace, 0-6, lost to Ducker and Croudace, 1-6;

Davis and Chase (NH) lost 2-6, 4-6, won, 6-3; Cefalia and Casserly

lost 3-6, 1-6, won, 6-2.

CdM wins showdown

* SWIMMING: The Corona del Mar High girls swim team gave visiting

University its first Pacific Coast League loss, after an 88-82

victory Wednesday.

Lexi Shue and Stephanie Gabert were double winners for the Sea

Kings, winning the 200-yard freestyle (1:54.64), 500 free (5:12), 200

individual medley (2:08.71) and 100 breaststroke (1:04.96),

respectively.

The girls team remains undefeated in league, with only one overall

loss.

Tar boys end strong

* TRACK AND FIELD: Keith Eldridge, Nick St. Andre, Bo Taylor and

Sean Campos all won two events to help power the Newport Harbor High

boys track and field team to an 80-56 victory over host Woodbridge in

the final Sea View League dual meet of the season Wednesday.

The Newport girls lost to Woodbridge, 80-56.

Eldridge claimed the 100- and 200-meter races in 10.9 and 23.6,

respectively while St. Andre eclipsed the field in the 800 (2:10.3)

and 3,200 (10:14.3) for the Sailor boys (2-3 in league), who won 11

of 16 events. Campos won the 110 high hurdles in 16.1, a personal best, and triple jump (39 feet, 8 3/4 inches).

Bo Taylor claimed both the shot put (57-4 3/4 ) and discus (162-9)

while Adam Mayfield won the 400 (56.4).

Newport’s boys won both the 400 and 1,600 relays. Chase Nelson,

Alex Rojas, Carson Hedrick and Eldridge clocked a 46.2 in the 400

while Travis Mayfield, Adam Mayfield, Nelson and Hedrick finished the

1,600 in 3:45.4.

Whitney Blue won both the 1,600 (5:09.94) and 3,200 (11:27.04)

while Jessica Robson claimed the triple jump (35-9) and high jump

(5-0) for the Sailor girls (3-2 in league).

Newport’s Allison Stokke (13-0 in the pole vault) and Ciara

Lawrence (32-7 1/2 ) in the shot put also won.

Newport will compete in the league preliminaries Tuesday and

finals on Friday at Irvine High with times to be determined.

Sea Kings dominate

* TRACK AND FIELD: Takai Sakai won two events to lead the Corona

del Mar High boys track and field team to a 90-73 Pacific Coast

League dual-meet victory over visiting University, while Tiffany Liu,

Melissa Swigert and Annie St. Geme won two events in a 103-24 CdM

girls victory Wednesday.

Sakai won the 100-meter sprint and 200 as the boys improved to 5-0

in league and in sole possession of first. Liu won the 100 and 300

hurdles, while Swigert won the 100 and 200, and St. Geme won the

1,600 and 3,200, as the girls also improved to 5-0 and in sole

possession of first.

The league championship meet preliminaries are Monday at Irvine

High, with the finals Thursday at Irvine.

Seahawks topple Mesa

* VOLLEYBALL: The Costa Mesa High boys volleyball team lost its

second Golden West League match of the season to visiting Ocean View,

25-22, 23-25, 22-25, 21-25, on Wednesday.

Ryan Bagwell had 21 kills and four aces, while Andrew Melcer had

41 assists for the Mustangs (11-3, 8-2 in league).

On Friday, Costa Mesa’s varsity and junior varsity teams will join

to play against the faculty at 7 p.m.

Irvine nips Sailors

* BASEBALL: Newport Harbor High had first and third with two outs,

but Irvine reliever Josh Campbell induced a flyout to right field to

seal a 6-5 Sea View League baseball victory over the host Sailors

Wednesday.

Newport (7-13, 2-8 in league) forced two ties -- at 3-3 in the

fifth inning after Patrick Keehan’s two-run home run, his first of

the season, and at 4-4 in the sixth before the Vaqueros 6-14, 3-7)

scored twice in the seventh.

Keehan went 2 for 4 with a double, two RBIs and one run scored

while Skylar Cozad finished 2 for 3 with a double and one RBI for the

Sailors, whose baserunning miscues cost potential runs, Newport Coach

Joel Desguin said.

The Sailors face host Irvine at 3:15 p.m. Friday.

Newport rowers shine

* ROWING: Male rowers from the Newport Aquatic Center claimed the

Overall Points Trophy for the second straight year and the female

team also made a strong showing at the Long Beach invitational, a

two-day regatta held April 23-24 at Marine Stadium.

NAC’s male crews, which included coxswains James Monahan, Katie

Scott, Michael Guess and Scott Lynch, entered 28 boats, with 21

earning medals.

Women from NAC entered 22 boats, with 16 claiming medals -- 11

gold and five silver. Coxswains Gevrina Seferaj, Hunter Doughty,

Jennifer Entin, Arianna Barbatti, Annika Overby, Aly Raymer, Yoseli

Arellano and Kristin Collins led their crews.

NAC teams competed against 15 squads from California and Arizona.

Brooks Jones and Lucas Ridinger coach the NAC men while the women

are guided by Christy Shaver, Eden Broggi and Marketa Dequine.

* The Newport men’s and women’s teams won the overall regatta

points trophies at the Long Beach Invitational April 16-17.

The women took first place in 11 races and second in five others,

while the men won medals in 21 of 28 races entered.

NAC will next compete in the Southwest regional regatta in

Sacramento May 7-8.