Shadowlands
Costa Mesa High’s boys swim coach and local beach lifeguard Scott
Ferry is named as the school’s head girls water polo coach, replacing
Crystal Whitmore. Ferry takes over Costa Mesa’s second most
successful girls athletic program in terms of wins and losses in
1996-97. In the past 13 months, girls water polo goes from a club
sport to a CIF-sanctioned winter sport.
CdM’s Caylan Leslie, 15, the top-seeded tennis player in the
Pacific Coast Junior Tennis Championships, sweeps through the
quarterfinals before losing to fourth-seeded Marilyn Locke of San
Jose, 6-4, 6-4.
Yvette Ybarra is named as Costa Mesa High’s boys volleyball coach
becoming the first woman to coach the school’s boys team.
Costa Mesa resident Brian Morton, 14, continues his amazing run,
capturing the boys 14s singles title in the Pacific Coast Junior
Tennis Championships at Round Hill Country Club. The unseeded Morton
beats fourth-seeded Stephen Amritraj of Calabasas, 6-3, 6-4. Morton’s
win gives him four tournament wins for the year. After the singles
match, Morton and Amritraj team up to win the doubles title, 4-6,
6-3, 6-1. In girls 16s doubles Caylan Leslie of Corona del Mar wins
the title with partner Danielle Hustedt of Irvine, 7-5, 6-2.
The Newport Harbor girls soccer team advances to the quarterfinals
of the Esperanza Summer League Tournament, losing their quarterfinal
match to Rosary, 2-1. Coach Jason Sorrell’s team averages more than
two goals a game in the seven-week, 15-game series.
Newport Beach Dukes TennisTeam coach Greg Patton called it, “The
biggest win in franchise history,” after his team’s fourth straight
win, a 25-23 victory over Sacramento at John Wayne Tennis Club (now
Palisades Tennis Club). The win vaults Newport (5-3) into second
place in the West Division. Men’s singles proves one of more
competitive games of the night as Dukes’ Rikard Bergh breaks
Sacramento’s Steve DeVries for a 5-4 lead and puts him away with his
serve, 6-4. The decisive set of mixed doubles pits David MacPherson
and Patty Fendick against the Dukes’ Amy Frazier and Ronnie Bathman.
The Dukes jump out to a 3-0 lead before the Capitals storm back to
record three straight wins, winning 10 straight points at one point.
The Dukes finally pull out the match with a win in the tiebreaker
Danny O’Neil leads Corona del Mar High’s class of ’90 to the title
in the fourth annual Jack Errion Memorial Corona del Mar High
Basketball Tournament.
O’Neil, whose transfer to Mater Dei between his sophomore and
junior seasons sparked controversy between the two schools, scores 21
points including 15 in a second-half comeback to lead CdM’s ’90 team
to a 56-50 win over the ’82 class. The ’82 class beat the class of
‘87, 62-50, in one semifinal while ’90 beat ‘91, 48-36, in the other
semifinal. John Paulsen scores 14 points for ’90 while Carter Reese
ends the game with a slam dunk for the winners. For ‘82, Kurt
Peterson had 11 points and five rebounds as Hank Goebel scores 10
points and grabs four rebounds.
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