BRIEFS

TOLFA TO PRINCETON

Corona del Mar High softball star Michelle Tolfa will raise athletic and academic levels when she attends Princeton.

Tolfa, who is a two-time Newport-Mesa Player of the Year, said Princeton was one of the schools she was looking at before the coaches contacted her, came to watch her play and then asked her to attend Princeton. Ivy League schools do not give athletic scholarships.

“I wanted to go back East and I always wanted to go to an Ivy League school,” Tolfa said. “I’m excited to experience fall and winter. I’ve already gone shopping for scarves and mittens.”

Tolfa, who had a 1.50 ERA and .325 batting average for the Sea Kings last year, was named to the CIF Southern Section Division IV second team for the second straight year as well as being first-team All-Pacific Coast League.

“Princeton takes one pitcher per class,” Tolfa said. “They are looking for me to come in and play outfield and first base not just pitcher.”

Tolfa said having her collegiate future secure, while the majority of high school seniors are submitting applications, is a nice luxury.

“I’m really, really relieved,” Tolfa said.

— Dominic PerroneBYC RAISES MONEY

Over 80 boats sailed at this year’s Balboa Yacht Club CHOC Regatta, held Saturday and Sunday in Newport Harbor. The event, piggy-backed on the first race of the Balboa Yacht Club Sunkist Series, raised over $67,000 in total donations for the Children’s Hospital of Orange County.

The two regattas were sailed at the same time, using the same courses determined by boat class. The little boat fleet raced on Saturday, while the big-boat Performance Handicap Racing Fleet sailed on Sunday.

The regatta has sailed annually since 2000 to raise money for, and to increase community awareness of, the heath care services available at CHOC.

Results were as follows:

Saturday

Sabot A -- Paul Blank, Balboa Yacht Club; Sabot B -- Dale Wooley, Balboa Yacht Club; Lido A -- John Papadopoulos and Iris Asbury, Balboa Yacht Club; Lido B -- Chris and Christopher Killian, Balboa Yacht Club; Finn -- Conrad Brown, California Yacht Club; Laser -- Ted Schweitzer, Balboa Yacht Club; Thistle -- Bob Bevan and Jeff Lenhart, Balboa Yacht Club; Harbor 20 A -- Jim Kerrigan, Newport Harbor Yacht Club; Harbor 20 B -- Ross Watanabe, UCISA.

Sunday

PHRF A -- It’s OK -- Andy Rose and Lewis Beery, Balboa Yacht Club; PHRF B -- Scavenger -- Bill Taylor, Balboa Yacht Club; PHRF C -- Brilliant -- Tim Fuller, Dana Point Yacht Club; PHRF D -- E22 -- Craig Fletcher, Balboa Yacht Club; PHRF E -- Speed Freak -- Brian Bargeman, Balboa Yacht Club; Shields -- Wind -- Bruce Thompson, UCISA.

WARD WINS TITLE

Newport Beach resident Jeff Ward wrapped up his second American Motorcross Association Supermoto points title heading into the season’s final race.

To put a stamp on a season in which Ward was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame and winning a gold medal in the X-games the 45-year old won from start to finish over Supermoto points runner-up Doug Henry at Supermoto Championship in Long Beach Sunday.

Ward’s son Brandon Ward, who is a freshman at Newport Harbor High, also won a race Sunday making them the first father-son duo to win a national championship race in the same year.

With 429 total points on the season Jeff Ward finished 36 points head of the second-place Henry. Jeff Ward, who finished 16 points out of first place last season, finished with nine wins in 20 races, finishing out of the top 10 only once. Jeff Ward won his first points title in 2004.

In August Jeff Ward won a Supermoto gold medal at the Summer Xgames to become the oldest male gold medalist in the event’s 12-year history.

Brandon Ward, 14, won the eight-lap Premier mini race.

UCI BASEBALL CONTINUES

The UC Irvine Baseball team will play eight more intersquad games today through Nov. 19.

The Anteaters started on Saturday.

The majority of the contests will be eight-inning games with two games scheduled for seven innings. The events are free and open to the general public. Starting rotations for each week will be posted on the UCI Athletics website as the dates of competition near.

The Anteaters play today at :25 p.m. and Friday at 2:50 p.m.

They will also compete Saturday at 2:25 p.m. and Sudnay at 2:50 p.m., playing in eight-inning games this weekend.