Sea King trio nets semifinals

Corona del Mar High’s Wesley Miller, Spencer Reitz and Ryan Caughren

advanced to the singles semifinals of the Pacific Coast League boys

tennis championships Tuesday at Tesoro.

Miller, the top seed who had a first-round bye, defeated Brian

Tran from Northwood, 6-0, 6-1, to advance to a semifinal, where he

will take on his teammate, Caughren, today, at 1 p.m.

Reitz, the No. 2 seed, will face Tesoro’s Nick Meister, also at 1

p.m. today. Retiz defeated David McKiernan of Laguna Beach, 6-0, 6-0,

in the first round. Reitz advanced to the semifinals when he scored a

6-3, 6-0 win over Grant Gordon of University.

Caughren defeated University’s Grant Patterson, 6-0, 6-0, in the

first round and then moved on to the semifinals with a 6-2, 6-1

victory over Tesoro’s Kevin Kordastani.

Toreros hammer Anteaters

* BASEBALL: The University of San Diego baseball team used three

home runs off six UC Irvine pitchers to post a 6-3 nonconference

victory at Anteater Ballpark Tuesday night.

The Toreros (31-21) scored two runs each in the seventh and eighth

innings and held UCI (31-14-1) scoreless the final six innings.

Jaime Martinez’s two-run home run highlighted a three-run third

for UCI, coming off a sweep of Big West Conference foe Cal Poly San

Luis Obispo last weekend.

UCI starter Justin Cassel allowed one run in three innings,

striking out three with no walks.

San Diego’s Kyle Collins improved to 6-1 with five scoreless

innings of relief. Collins fanned five and allowed five hits.

Mark Wagner, Andy Amara and Matt Anderson each had two hits for

the ‘Eaters, who host Cal State Fullerton in a key three-game

conference series that begins at 7 p.m. Friday.

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Nonconference

San Diego 6, UC Irvine 3

Score by Innings

SD 010 100 220 -- 6 12 1

UC Irvine 003 000 000 -- 3 11 2

Boman, Collins (5) and Abruzzo; Cassel,

Swanson (4), Koehler (5), Huff (7),

Schroer (7), Alstot (8) and Wagner. W --

Collins, 6-1. L -- Koehler, 1-1. 2B --

Abruzzo (SD), Anderson (UCI), Sandoval

(SD). HR -- Amara (SD), Martinez (UCI),

Sandoval (SD), Prast (SD).

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Newport blanked

* SOFTBALL: Newport Harbor High senior Jennifer Gummerman

collected two hits, but the Sailors softball team lost, 10-0, to Sea

View League visitor Laguna Hills Tuesday.

Newport junior Ashley Gleason also added a hit, the game’s only

double, while sophomore Katie Daniels provided a single for the

Sailors (8-14-1, 1-8 in league).

Laguna Hills, led by pitcher Sam Hamner (20-4), improved to 23-6,

7-2. Newport Harbor will close out the season against Woodbridge

Thursday at 5 p.m. at Barber Memorial Park in Irvine.

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Sea View League

Laguna Hills 10, Newport 0

Score by Innings

Laguna 210 007 0 -- 10 6 0

Newport 000 000 0 -- 0 4 4

Hamner and Neill; Gleason, Grumman (6) and

Bass. W -- Hamner, 20-4. L -- Gleason,

6-12. 2B -- Gleason (NH).

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