UCI cross country team shines at Cal Poly

The UC Irvine women’s cross country team won the Cal Poly

Invitational in San Luis Obispo Saturday.

UCI, with five runners in the top 14 places, finished with 48

points in the eight-team field. Anteater senior Tessa Cendejas

finished third in 17:57.4, Kaleena Yee was seventh (18:16.8), Kim

Ramirez placed 11th (18:32.4), Janelle Del Soldato was 13th (18:39.3)

and Chelsey Traylor finished 14th in 18:50.0. Jenna Keith placed 18th

in 18:55.2 and Kelli Vanderburg was 21st in 19:04.1 to complete UCI’s

top seven.

Barnes leads UCI men

* CROSS COUNTRY: The Anteater men’s team finished third with 81

points as Stanford (21) and Cal Poly (40) placed 1-2. UCI’s Ricky Barnes finished 15th in 26:27.3, Tom Whelan 18th (26:39.5), Andrew

Garratt was 26th (27:21.8), David Santos placed 27th (27:23.9) and

Brandon Lucero was 31st in 27:44.2. Rounding out the Anteaters’ top

seven were Ryan Ketcham in 38th place (28:06.0) and John Kluve in

48th (29:10.4).

Sailors beat Los Al

* WATER POLO: Clay Jorth and Michael Bury scored two goals each as

Newport Harbor defeated visiting Los Alamitos, 7-3, Saturday in

nonleague boys water polo action at Corona del Mar.

Brett Auer, Sean McGhie and Griffin Gentry scored goals for the

Sailors (9-7), whose goalie, Michael Robinson, had eight saves and

two steals.

Lions sweep Hawks

* VOLLEYBALL: Vanguard’s women rolled to a sweeping win over

Christian Heritage Saturday night, 30-26, 30-23, 30-24, in Golden

State Athletic Conference action, in which the host Lions improved to

11-7, 5-7 in the GSAC. Sonrisa Peace (13 kills) led Vanguard, along

with Stephanie Pfau (12) and Jaclyn Lee (11). VU’s Lindsay Kaiser had

12 digs, while Marissa Cothran had 35 assists.

Lions come up short

* SOCCER: The Vanguard women hosted Azusa Pacific, the NAIA’s

top-ranked team, Saturday in Costa Mesa and lost, 2-1.

Jennifer Zipprich gave the Lions a first-half lead on an assist by

Amber Waadle, but the Cougars scored twice in the second half.

Cal Poly stuns UCI

* VOLLEYBALL: The UC Irvine women’s volleyball team could not

overcome an 0-2 deficit Saturday night as visiting Cal Poly San Luis

Obispo upset the Anteaters, 31-29, 30-22, 30-32, 31-29, in Big West

Conference action at Crawford Court.

Kelly Wing had 25 kills for UCI (16-5, 7-2 in the Big West), while

teammates Sami Cash and Trisha White had 14 each. Molly Duncan led

Cal Poly (11-9, 3-6) with 18 kills.