Anteaters win in overtime against UC Riverside, 1-0

Sophomore Lindsay Duke scored the game-winning goal in the sixth

minute of overtime to lead the UC Irvine women’s soccer team to a 1-0

Big West Conference victory over host UC Riverside Friday.

Duke scored off an assist from freshman Britney Webster. Freshman

goalie Marissa Welliver recorded five saves and earned her eighth

shutout of the season for the Anteaters (10-3-5, 4-1-3 in conference).

Riverside dropped to (10-6-3, 4-3-1).

The top four teams in the standings at the end of play on Sunday

will advance to next week’s Big West Conference Championships in

Fullerton. UCI is in second. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, which features

former Costa Mesa High standout Sharon Day, is in first place.

The Anteaters will close out the regular season Sunday at 1 p.m.

at Fullerton.

UCI loses fourth straight

* VOLLEYBALL: The UC Irvine women’s volleyball team suffered its

fourth straight loss, falling to Big West Conference visitor Utah

State 30-17, 30-24, 20-30, 30-28 Friday at Crawford Court.

Kelly Wing led the Anteaters (16-8, 7-5 in conference) with a

match-high 30 kill and 17 digs. Dana Kurzbard added 12 kills while

setter Ashlie Hain recorded 55 assists and 12 digs. Libero Brenda

Waterman also had 12 digs.

The Aggies improved to 14-8, 6-5 behind Zuzana Cernianska’s 23

kills.

UC Irvine hosts Idaho Saturday at 7 p.m. at Crawford Court.

Santa Ana defeats Bucs

* SOCCER: Joel Sotolongo scored the Orange Coast College men’s

soccer team’s lone goal, but it wasn’t enough as host Santa Ana found

the back of the net seconds before halftime and held on for a 2-1

Orange Empire Conference victory Friday.

Eli Solis assisted on Sotolongo’s goal in the 35th minute to tie

the Dons.

Coast goalkeeper Christian Lopez made eight saves. Coast fell to

10-5-1, 7-3-1 in the OEC.

Tars split in tourney

* VOLLEYBALL: The Newport Harbor High girls volleyball team will

play in the consolation semifinals today after splitting two matches

in the Santa Barbara Tournament of Champions Friday.

The Sailors lost the first match to Stockdale (23-2), which won,

23-25, 29-27, 27-25, 25-17. Allyson Jennings led the Sailors (16-5)

with 18 kills, while Emily Turner added 12 kills and Lauren Miller

provided seven. Jennings also provided 24 assists and Kellie King had

20 assists.

“We just made too many unforced errors to beat a team of that

quality,” Newport Coach Dan Glenn said. “We could have won that

match. We had swings to win the game, but we just couldn’t do it.”

Newport closed out the day with a 25-13, 25-17, 23-25, 25-27, 15-4

victory over Oxnard. Jennings recorded 22 kills and 26 assists.

Turner chipped in with 16 kills and Taryn Tarnutzer had 11 kills.

King produced 28 assists.

The Sailors will face Bishop Montgomery today at 11 a.m.

Newport teams in third

* CROSS COUNTRY: The Newport Harbor High boys and girls cross

country teams are both in third place in the Sea View League after

they went 3-2 in the league’s six-way meet at Woodbridge Friday.

The Newport boys, led by Kenny Rakestraw and Nick Miller, defeated

Aliso Niguel, 26-29, Irvine, 22-33 and Woodbridge, 23-32, but lost to

Foothill, 24-31, and was edged by Laguna Hills, 27-28.

Rakestraw finished sixth (16:09) to lead the Sailors (6-4), while

Miller came in eighth (16:27). Nick St. Andre contributed to Newport,

coming in 13th (16:47).

Mike Donald and Cameron McLaren suffered injuries during the race,

but Martin Bernard and Adam Mayfield stepped up, Newport Coach Nowell

Kay said. Donald had his leg muscles tightening up, while McLaren

accidentally tripped over a sprinkler.

Bernard finished 20th (17:10), and Mayfield came in 23rd (17:13).

Kay and his squad are excited about the league finals Friday at

Irvine Regional Park.

“We definitely haven’t ran our best race of the season,” Kay said.

“Our best race is still to come.”

On the girls side, Whitney Blue led Newport (7-3) with a

fourth-place finish (18:47), and freshman Lily Dierkes made the

difference for the Sailors, Coach Eric Tweit said.

Dierkes was supposed to run for the frosh-soph team, but because

of injuries she competed in varsity and certainly contributed.

“She was the real difference in beating the three teams we did,”

Tweit said.

Newport eked past Laguna Hills, 27-28, defeated Foothill, 27-29,

and earned a 25-20 win over Irvine. Courtney Marshall, who had been

injured, ran in her first race of the season, finishing 11th (19:21),

while Caitlin Mai came in 16th (19:46), Dierkes followed in 24th

(20:28) and Amy Penner rounded out the team’s performance in 32nd

(21:13).

Sea Kings sweep Uni

* VOLLEYBALL: The Corona del Mar High girls volleyball team

defeated visiting University, 25-10, 27-25, 25-12, in a Pacific Coast

League match Thursday.

Mackenzie Conover had 11 kills to lead the Sea Kings, who received

17 kills from Breanne Ogden and 16 from Jordan Smith. Lauren Snell

had four ace serves for the winners (7-1 in league), who play Calvary

Chapel Tuesday, before meeting league-leading Northwood on Thursday

at home.

Two league wins next week would give CdM at least a share of their

second straight PCL title.

Pfau Lion of Week

* HONORS: Vanguard University sophomore volleyball player

Stephanie Pfau, who led the Lions to a pair of Golden State Athletic

Conference wins last week, was named Lion of the Week.

Pfau, a 5-foot-11 outside hitter, had a season-high 19 kills and

added 10 digs in a four-game win over Concordia Oct. 21. She had six

kills, five digs and an ace serve in VU’s Oct. 25 victory over Hope

International.

The two wins improved VU to 13-7, 7-7 in the GSAC and upped the

Lions from No. 8 to No. 6 in the Region II rankings. The top six

teams at the end of the regular season will make the Region II

playoffs.

The 13 wins are also a school record.

VU No. 4 in NAIA

* BASKETBALL: The Vanguard University women’s basketball team,

which finished third in the NAIA Tournament last season, earned a No.

4 preseason ranking in the NAIA poll released this week.

Coach Russ Davis’ Lions were No. 7 in the final poll last season,

when they finished 28-10.

The Lions, who lost six seniors and do not have a senior on this

year’s roster, will try to begin justifying their ranking when they

open the season Nov. 11 at San Diego State.

Duesler fares well

* TENNIS: Bob Duesler of Newport Beach helped lead the U.S. men’s

65 tennis team to a fourth-place finish in the International Tennis

Federation’s team championships held at Antalya’s Ali Bey Belek

Tennis Club in Antalya, Turkey Saturday.

The U.S. team lost to Australia, 2-1, in the tournament’s

third-place playoff. In the singles competition against Australia,

Duesler gave the Americans a singles split by defeating Ian King,

6-1, 6-1.

The U.S. men’s 65 team defeated The Netherlands, Spain, Slovenia

and Sweden, and then lost to Mexico in the semifinals, 2-1, to enter

the third-place playoff against the Aussies.

CdM coach sought

* SOFTBALL: The Corona del Mar High athletic department is looking

for an assistant varsity softball coach.

Qualified applicants should contact varsity head coach Nichole

Thompson at (949) 515-6601, ext. 6283.