May-Treanor eyes title
Misty May-Treanor, a Newport Harbor High product, and her partner
Kerri Walsh advanced to today’s gold medal match of the SWATCH-FIVB
beach volleyball world championships following a semifinal victory
Friday in Berlin.
The reigning Olympic and world champions, May-Treanor and Walsh
will face the top-seeded Brazilian tandem of Felisberta Silva and
Larissa Franca in the title match.
May-Treanor and Walsh, seeded No. 19, secured a forfeit win over
Tian Jia and Wang Fei of China to advance.
Fei, 23, injured her left knee in the 52nd minute of the semifinal
contest and was taken to a local hospital for X-rays.
The American duo was leading in the deciding Game 3 when the
injury occurred.
Dent triumphs again
* TENNIS: Taylor Dent, a former Corona del Mar high standout,
reached the fourth round of men’s singles competition at Wimbledon
for the first time in his career following a third-round sweep over
Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic Friday at The All England Lawn
Tennis Club.
Dent, ranked 29th in the Association of Tennis Professionals point
standings this year, earned a 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 victory over
Berdych to reach the round of 16 for the first time in five
appearances at Wimbledon.
The 24-year-old, the No. 24 seed, will face No. 3-seeded Lleyton
Hewitt of Australia in the round of 16.
Dent, the 1996 CIF Southern Section boys singles champion, reached
the third round at Wimbledon in 2002 and 2004. He defeated Newport
Coast resident Kevin Kim in the second round Wednesday following a
grueling first-round victory over Belgium’s Dick Norman.
Defending Wimbledon women’s singles champion and No. 2-seeded
Maria Sharapova, a member of World Team Tennis’ Newport Beach
Breakers, is scheduled to play Slovenia’s Katarina Srebotnik in the
third round today.
Jablonsky honored
VOLLEYBALL: UC Irvine men’s volleyball star Jayson Jablonsky, a
sophomore outside hitter, has been named a second-team
ASICS/Volleyball Magazine All-American in the publication’s July 2005
issue.
A second-team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation honoree,
Jablonsky averaged 4.0 kills and 1.3 digs per game this season.
He led the Anteaters in kills and was ranked sixth in kills and
eighth in points among MPSF players.
Jablonsky recorded at least 10 kills in 24 matches this spring.
He averaged 21 kills over the last five matches.
Coach John Speraw’s Anteaters finished with a 9-20 record, 7-15 in
the MPSF.
Locals in competition
* SURFING: Three Newport Beach residents and one Costa Mesa
resident will be competing in the Surfing America USA championships,
an amateur event, held Monday through July 2 at Huntington Beach.
The four are vying for qualification, along with 356 others, to
the amateur 2005 USA surf team, which will compete at the
International Surfing Association world junior championships -- also
at Huntington Beach -- in October.
Newport Beach’s Andrew Doheny will be participating in the boys
under-16 division, while fellow Newport Beach resident Ford Archbold
will be competing in the boys under-14 age group.
Costa Mesa’s Allan Kincade is slated to surf in the boys under-18
division.
Sheila Huber, of Newport Beach, is competing in the women’s open
division.
Kincade, Archbold and Doheny have edged their competition in the
National Scholastic Surfing Association to qualify for the
championships, while Huber qualified with her dominant competition in
the Western Surfing Association.
All four locals will be surfing against athletes coming from three
other regional member organizations of Surfing America, spanning from
the East Coast to Hawaii.
Tennis camp to begin
* TENNIS: A summer tennis camp will be held for juniors ages 6 to
15, beginning Monday through September 2 at Park Newport.
Dave Sherbeck, who is the camp director, is a former Wimbledon
quarterfinalist, and has directed the camp for 16 years.
The camp will be hosted by Brandis Braverman, a former touring
professional, and will feature 10 one-week sessions including games,
prizes and lunches.
The sessions are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and
will focus on fundamentals, drills and court etiquette.
For information, contact Sherbeck by e-mail at D.Sherbeck@att.net,
or by telephone: (949) 533-7714.
Breakers offer tips
* TENNIS: The Newport Beach Recreation and Senior Services
department, as well as the Newport Beach Breakers will be hosting a
free tennis clinic at San Joaquin Tennis Courts July 2.
The clinic will feature professional tennis player Devin Bowen, a
member of the Breakers, who won the 2004 World Team Tennis
championship.
The event is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., for ages 6-14 and will focus
on the fundamentals of tennis.
To reserve one of 70 spots, call (949) 644-3151.
OCC third in state
* ATHLETICS: Orange Coast College finished third among 109
community colleges in the 2004-05 Pepsi/National Alliance of Two-Year
College Athletic Administrators Cup.
State titles in men’s and women’s cross country, as well as
women’s tennis helped OCC crack the top five.
Fresno City College finished first with 165.5 points, followed by
Mt. San Antonio College (161.5) and OCC (160).
The standings were based on fall and spring teams’ post-
conference competition. Only a school’s top five men’s and women’s
teams were included.
Other OCC teams adding to its total were women’s swimming, track
and field, water polo, soccer and volleyball, along with men’s
swimming, baseball, track and field and soccer.
Saddleback (ninth) and Riverside (10th) also represented the
Orange Empire Conference in the top 10.
UCI student-athletes
* HONORS: Twenty-one UC Irvine student-athletes were named to the
Big West Academic All-Conference team for their accomplishments
during the spring.
In all, 197 student-athletes from 10 member institutions earned
the honor in sports such as baseball, softball, men’s and women’s
tennis, men’s and women’s track and field, as well as men’s and
women’s golf.
UCI’s recipients are: baseball player Gregg Wallis (political
science); men’s tennis players Ryusuke Kashiwabara (international
studies) and Peter Surapol (economics); women’s tennis player Anna
Bentzer (psychology); men’s track and field athletes Mike Beerer
(mechanical engineering), Michael Cao (psychology and social
behavior/sociology), Aaron Corbett (psychology), Matt Grilli
(psychology), Storm Huie (sociology), Fred Lee (criminology), Curtis
Lehmann (psychology) and Jeremy Torres (computer engineering); and
women’s track and field athletes Lauren Adams (biological sciences),
Jennifer Lewis (English and film studies), Kirsten Loftin
(criminology), Angela Lotito (political science), Kim Ramirez
(psychology and biological sciences), Corica Rodgers (biological
sciences), Natalie St. Andre (film studies), Kristen Silverman
(political science) and Kelli Vanderburg (psychology and social
behavior).
To be eligible, athletes must maintain a 3.2 cumulative
grade-point average, complete one full academic year prior to the
season for which the award is being received -- at least a sophomore
academically -- and compete in at least half their team’s contests.
All the latest on Orange County from Orange County.
Get our free TimesOC newsletter.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Daily Pilot.