BRIEFS

DEPAUL WINS SILVERS

Lyndsay DePaul, who will be a junior women’s swimmer at UC Irvine this fall, won two silver medals at the 2008 U.S. Open at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

DePaul swam a time of 2 minutes, 9.66 seconds in the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday to earn the silver medal. Mary DeScenza won the event with a time of 2:07.26.

The top American finisher in each event who will be enrolled as a full-time university student through Jan. 1, 2009 will qualify to represent the United States at the 2009 World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia. DeScenza finished her collegiate career at Georgia in 2006, giving DePaul the opportunity.

DePaul won a second silver medal Wednesday in the 400 individual medley as she swam a time of 4:45.40. Ava Ohlgren won the event with a time of 4:43.30. Ohlgren will be a junior at Auburn in the fall and will join DePaul on the World University Games team.

The U.S. Open is being held in a long course meters format. The U.S. Open continues through Saturday in Minneapolis.

KANE OWNS AZUSA GREENS

AZUSA — With the start of the Newport Harbor High girls’ golf season around the corner, Coach Scott Tarnow said Tiffany Kane is on path to have a big senior year.

Kane fired a four-over-par 76 to win the 15-18 girls’ division at the Azusa Greens Summer Championship at Azusa Greens Golf Course Wednesday.

Tarnow said Kane played big on the back nine by nailing two birdies to shoot one under and claim the title.

GOLFERS SET FOR COSTA MESA CHAMPIONSHIP

The 36th annual Costa Mesa City Championship golf tournament is Saturday and Sunday at the Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club.

The event, the former winners of which include eventual PGA Tour standouts Mark O’Meara and Scott Simpson, awards titles in the championship flight, the first flight, the third flight (grouped by handicap) and the senior flight (age 55 and older).

There are no handicaps in the championship flight, in which the top golfers compete.

Each flight competes one day on the Mesa Linda course and one day on the Los Lagos course.

LOCALS MISS CUT

BEAUMONT — Locals Camden Nicholson and Lauren Draganza missed qualifying into today’s third and final round in their respective divisions at the American Junior Golf Assn. TEE UP Junior Challenge at Oak Valley Golf Club Wednesday.

Nicholson, a senior-to-be at Corona del Mar High, shot a 10-over-par 82 in the second round to finish with a two-day total of 157. Only the top 45 boys advanced to the final round and Nicholson missed moving on by seven strokes.

In girls, Draganza, who’s from Costa Mesa, improved on her first round score by eight strokes with a six-over-par 78.

But her two-round total of 164 wasn’t enough to join 21 other golfers in the final round.

— From staff reports