Newport Harbor wins Anteater Regatta title

The Newport Harbor High sailing team, the defending national champions, won the Anteater High School Regatta for the second straight year Dec. 9.

The Anteater Regatta, hosted by UC Irvine and the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, featured 26 high schools and roughly 165 sailors from Point Loma to the Bay Area. Sage Hill, which finished in third place, and Corona del Mar, which was 11th, also competed in the event that one of the five Pacific Coast high school sailing regattas leading up to the national championships, which are in May of 2008.

Because of the size of the Newport Harbor team, the squad was allowed to have four separate teams sailing in the Gold Division A and B. The winning combination of varsity sailors included skippers Chris Barnard and Wade Hatton along with their crews members Caitlan Beavers and Devon Wortman.

Randall Hause, Chris Segerblom, Nicole Grice and Kayla McComb took fifth.

— From staff reports