Edison wraps up Sunset League volleyball title

The Edison High girls’ volleyball team has laid claim to a share of

the 2003 Sunset League championship.

The Chargers wrapped up a portion of the league title and league’s

No. 1 seed for the CIF-Southern Section playoffs, which begin this

week.

Edison earned the crown by sweeping visiting Huntington Beach,

25-12, 25-14, 25-14.

The Chargers, who finished league play 8-2 and tied Los Alamitos

for the title, will take an overall record of 14-2 into a first-round

Division II-AA playoff game against Anaheim.

The Colonists (11-5) are an at-large entry from the Orange League.

Despite losing its regular season finale to Edison, Huntington

Beach (9-9) received an at-large bid to the playoffs.

The Oilers will open the Division II-AA playoffs on the road at

Santa Fe.

The Chiefs (16-6) are champions of the Del Rio League.

Marina, the defending Division I-A champion, had its season come

to an end in a 15-25, 21-25, 6-25 loss to co-champion Los Alamitos.

In previous action from the past week, Huntington Beach downed

Marina, 25-21, 25-16, 25-18, and Edison was a 25-20, 25-21, 25-12

winner over Fountain Valley.

Ocean View, which won the outright Golden West League

championship, takes on Louisville in a first-round Division III-A

matchup.

Louisville is an at-large entry from the Mission League.

Ocean View defeated Rancho Alamitos 25-13, 25-22, 25-14, in

nonleague play.

In girls’ tennis, the Huntington Beach doubles tandem of Amy

Kaufman and Stacy Kaufman reached the championship round of the

Sunset League doubles final. The duo was defeated there by Fountain

Valley’s top doubles team of Amy Nguyen and Margaret Pietrowski.

At the Golden West League cross country finals, Ocean View

finished sixth overall in the boys’ and girls’ races.

In boys’ water polo, Edison edged rival Fountain Valley, 10-9, in

Sunset League action.