Hahn gains entry into Toshiba

Newport Beach Country Club head golf professional Paul Hahn will get

his second crack at the Toshiba Senior Classic after securing one of

five sponsor’s exemptions into the 11th annual PGA Champions Tour

event, which begins with Friday’s first round.

Tournament Director Jeff Purser called Hahn at 7 a.m. Friday with

the news.

“I have to make sure I don’t hook it into the bushes on the first

hole,” said Hahn, 51, referring to his Toshiba debut last year. “I am

aiming right on one.”

Hahn joins 25 of the top 30 players from the 2004 Champions Tour

money list entered into the 78-player field that includes two-time

Toshiba champion Hale Irwin, Gil Morgan, Bruce Fleisher, Larry Nelson

and Mark McNulty, D.A. Weibring, Jim Thorpe and 2000 Toshiba winner

Allen Doyle, among others.

Two-time U.S. Open champion Curtis Strange makes his Toshiba debut

this year while past major championship winners Raymond Floyd and Tom

Watson will also compete in the tournament.

The ever-popular Chi Chi Rodriguez, who has not played any

Champions Tour events this year, refused a sponsor’s exemption into

Toshiba and will not play the event for the first time.

Tournament week begins with Monday’s pro-am followed by Tuesday’s

Champions Breakfast and the two-day pro am beginning Wednesday.

Hahn said he will attend the Champions Breakfast and likely play

in either the Wednesday or Thursday pro-ams while mixing in time on

the range and putting green.

“I’m going to take it easy and have more fun,” Hahn said. “Last

year I was caught up in the moment, watching other players and not

concentrating on what I was doing. I tried to cram for the test.”

-- Bryce Alderton

CdM wins two

* VOLLEYBALL: The Corona del Mar High boys volleyball team won two

of four matches Friday in pool play of the San Diego Francis Parker

tournament at Eastlake High to finish third in its pool.

CdM (5-2) defeated Eastlake, 25-13, 25-19, in the first match,

with senior Kevin Welch nailing six kills, and Austin Brawner and

Jake Cancellieri hitting four kills each.

The Sea Kings won the fourth game also, a 25-21, 25-17 sweep of

San Diego’s Rancho Bernardo. Blaine Nielsen had five kills and Phil

Bannon had 26 assists against Bernardo. CdM lost the second and third

games to Thousand Oaks (25-21, 26-24) and Clovis of Fresno (25-23,

26-28, 15-13), respectively.

Welch totaled 29 kills on the day to lead the Sea Kings, who

continue play in the tournament at 9 a.m. today at Carlsbad High. The

best CdM can place is 17th.

Seeded Sailors advance

* VOLLEYBALL: The Newport Harbor High boys volleyball team, which

was the No. 4 seed out of 40 schools in the Tournament of Champions

in San Diego, finished third in its pool of five teams Friday at

Scripps Ranch.

The Sailors, who have won the tournament twice, defeated Royal

from Thousand Oaks, 25-17, 25-21, in the best of three format.

Then the Tars lost to Granite Bay from Northern California, 25-22,

23-25, 15-7, and to Redondo Union, 25-20, 25-21 before beating Scripps Ranch, 25-12, 25-19.

Newport Harbor made numerous hitting errors in its two losses,

Coach Dan Glenn said, but the team has a chance to take 17th if it

wins four matches today.

Newport tops Laguna

* BASEBALL: Senior pitcher Patrick Keehan pitched seven innings

allowing one run, two hits and no walks, with eight strikeouts, and

the Newport Harbor High baseball team defeated visiting Laguna Beach,

6-1, in the final round of consolation play in the Newport Elks

tournament Friday.

Keehan was also 1 for 4 from the plate with an RBI and a run

scored, while junior Skylar Cozad was 2 for 4 with two RBIs for the

Sailors (3-2). Senior Greg Miner was 2 for 3 and a run scored, and

both P.J. Errington and Chris Thompson were 1 for 2 with an RBI and a

run scored.

Newport Elks tournament

Final round consolation

Newport Harbor 6,

Laguna Beach 1

Score by Innings

*--*

LB 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 - 1 2 3

Newport 1 3 0 0 0 6 0 - 6 9 1

*--*

Pickett and Brewster; Keehan and Miner. W -- Keehan, 2-0. L --

Pickett, 0-1. 2B -- Ewing (LB), Miner (NH).

UCI mightier than Penn

* TENNIS: The UC Irvine men’s tennis team defeated Penn, 5-2,

Friday in nonconference action Friday at Anteater Stadium.

UCI seniors Brian Morton and Rye Kashiwabara defeated Tas Tobias

and Anthony Pu 8-6 in the No. 1 match doubles match, but Penn won the

other two doubles matches to claim the point for the Quakers.

Morton quickly defeated Mikhail Bekker 6-1, 6-1 in the No. 1

singles match. Victor Lamm put UCI up 2-1 as he defeated Tas Tobias

6-2, 6-1 in No. 3 singles. Rye Kashiwabara beat David Lynn 6-0, 6-2

in the No. 2 match to give UCI a 3-1 lead. Junior Olof Sjolund

clinched the victory for the ‘Eaters in the No. 6 match with a

7-6(6), 6-2 win over James Fairbanks. Mustafa Ulukan rounded out the

UCI victory with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 win over Craig Rubin in the No. 5

match.

The Anteaters, who improve to 8-6, will host Georgia Southern

Monday at 1 p.m. at Anteater Tennis Stadium.

‘Stangs stay perfect

* VOLLEYBALL: The Costa Mesa High boys volleyball team swept host

Rancho Alamitos, 25-12, 29-27, 25-18, Friday in a nonleague match.

Junior outside hitter Ryan Bagwell had a match-high 15 kills to go

with his seven service aces for the Mustangs (3-0).

Senior middle blocker Garret Walthers contributed eight kills,

three aces and three stuff blocks for Mesa, while junior setter

Andrew Melcer finished with 31 assists despite injuring his left calf

in the first game.

Junior middle blocker Mitch Caldwell finished with three blocks

for Mesa, but Coach Dave Sorrells said his stats were low because

Rancho Alamitos hitters stopped swinging away and started to dink the

ball over the blockers.

Sorrells added that the first game was as near a perfect game by

Mesa he has seen in the five years he has been at the helm.

Costa Mesa plays at Westminster Wednesday with the junior varsity

starting at 3:30 p.m. and the varsity to follow.

Anderson homers twice

* BASEBALL: Matt Anderson went 2 for 4 with two home runs and five

RBIs Friday as the UC Irvine baseball team upset 19th-ranked Wichita

State, 9-4, in the opening game of the 2005 Public Storage Baseball

Classic at USC.

Anderson hit a two-run homer to right in the bottom of the sixth

to give the ‘Eaters a 4-3 lead, the fourth lead change of the game,

and belted a three-run blast as part of the five-run seventh.

The Anteaters improve to 10-7 on the season while Wichita State

suffered its second loss of the year, falling to 15-2.

UCI starting pitcher Chris Nicoll left the game after six,

yielding three runs on nine hits and striking out five. The junior

earned a no-decision after Wichita State took the lead in the

seventh. Reliever Steve Schroer picked up the win to improve to 2-2,

giving up an unearned run on three hits and striking out one in three

innings of work.

UCI catcher Mark Wagner was 2 for 3 with an RBI and two runs

scored while shortstop Chad Lundahl also had two hits and scored

once.

The Anteaters face 21st ranked Texas Tech today at 1 p.m. at USC.

Public Storage Classic

Opening Game

UC Irvine 9,

Wichita State 4

Score by Innings

*--*

WSU 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 - 4 12 3

UCI 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 0 x - 9 10 1

*--*

Pelfrey, Booth (7), Touchatt (7), Simon (7) and Muich; Nicoll,

Sroer (7) and Wagner. W -- Schroer, 2-2. L -- Booth, 2-1. 2B --

McColla (W), Schermerhorn (W), Muich (W), Johnson (UCI), Cipriano

(UCI). HR -- Muich (W), Anderson (UCI) 2.

Sage controls Edison

* TENNIS: Senior Tristan Cordier and sophomore Martin Park both

swept their singles sets to lead the Sage Hill School boys tennis

team past visiting Edison, 15-3, in a nonleague match Friday at

Balboa Bay Club Racqet Club.

Cordier won, 6-0, 6-0, 6-1, and Park won, 6-1, 6-0, 6-0. The doubles team of freshman Karam Sethi and sophomore Conrad Whitaker

also swept their sets (6-2, 6-0, 6-0) for the Lightning (3-4). Edison

dropped to 1-4.

Nonleague

Sage Hill 15,

Edison 3

Singles -- Cordier def. Truong, 6-0, def. Denhert, 6-0, def.

Meigs, 6-1. Park (SH) won, 6-1, 6-0, 6-0. Russo-Larson (SH) won, 6-4,

lost, 6-0, won, 6-0.

Doubles -- Sethi-Whitaker (SH) def. Niato-Chen, 6-2, def.

Ngo-Vuong, 6-0, def. Keeley-Jacobs, 6-0. Garrison-Wee (SH) won, 6-0,

lost, 6-4, won, 6-4. Ross-Gerdau (SH) won, 6-3, 6-3, lost, 6-2.

OCC falls to Gonzaga

* CREW: The Orange Coast College men’s crew team lost to host

Gonzaga in a dual race Friday in Spokane, Wash.

Gonzaga finished in 6:01.5 with OCC closely behind in 6:04.0 in

both school’s season-opening race.

The Pirates jumped out to a quick lead and held it until there was

about 500 meters to go in the 2,000-meter race. Gonzaga won by about

six feet.

The OCC freshman team defeated Gonzaga with a time of 6:07.8.

Gonzaga finished in 6:08.7.

Crossroads sweeps

* VOLLEYBALL: The Sage Hill School boys volleyball team lost to

visiting Crossroads from Santa Monica, 25-8, 25-12, 25-14, Friday in

a nonleague match.

Coach Merja Connolly-Freund said she was disappointed the team did

not improve from it’s previous showings this year as the Lightning

fall to 0-3.

The Roadrunners used a steady stream of jump serves to create Sage

Hill serve receive errors, which made it difficult for the setter to

set up an effective attack.

Chandy wins 200, 400

* TRACK AND FIELD: Junior Zach Chandy won the 200- and 400-meter

dashes for the Sage Hill School boys track and field team in a

nonleague tri-meet involving El Modena and host Huntington Beach

Thursday.

The Sage boys were third with 15 points behind Huntington Beach

(64) and El Modena (65). The girls were third with 18 points behind Huntington Beach (53) and El Modena (79).

Chandy finished the 200 in 21.8 seconds and cruised the 400 in

51.3, while senior Mike Voge was fourth in the 1,600 in 4:57. Junior

Chris Neale was fourth in the 200 (24.6) and sophomore Chris Lee was

third in the triple jump at 34 feet, 3 inches.

Senior Laura Gordon won the triple jump for the girls with a 34-6

jump and was second in the 100 hurdles (17.3) and 300 hurdles (51.4).

She was third in long jump (14-11). Senior Megan McGillivray was

fourth in the shotput (20-6), while Kelsey Rose was third in the 100

(13.7) and 200 (28.5).

Pacifica clips Eagles

* SWIMMING: The Estancia High boys swim team lost to visiting

Pacifica, 96-64, Friday in a nonleague meet.

Chad Kunert took first in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle events

and was a member of the first-place 200 medley relay as well as the

second-place 400 free relay.

Andrew Fassari, Devon Mellin, Sean Goodman and Kunert swam the 400

free relay in 3:47.89, just under the 3:48.00 for CIF consideration.

Mellin’s time of 6:00 was a personal best in the 500 free and fast

enough for fourth while Juan Rodriguez took fourth in 100 breast in

1:28.56, a personal best.

Mellin also won the 50 free (26.61).

Nonleague

BOYS

Pacifica 96,

Estancia 64

200 medley -- 1. Estancia (Kunert, Fasari, Goodman, Mellin),

1:56.85.

200 free -- 1. Kunert (E), 1:58.89; 2. Norcross (P), 2:17.89; 3.

Jeffery (P), 2:18.79.

200 IM -- 1. Cabral (P), 2:43.14; 2. Kao (E), 2:53.32.

50 free -- 1. Mellin (E), 26.61; 2. Rossnar (P), 26.75; 3. Avila

(P), 27:48.

100 fly -- Stoddart (P), 1:04.54; 2. Goodman (E) 1:10.08; 3.

Gillmore (P) 1:11.88.

100 free -- 1. Norcross (P), 51.58; 2. Fassari (E), 52.24; 3.

Takahata (P) 59.17.

500 free -- 1. Kunert (E), 5:23.80; 2. Jeffrey (P), 5:44.32; 3.

Smith (P), 5:58.27.

200 free relay -- Pacifica, 1:51.87.

100 back -- 1. Fuertes (P) 1:00.61; 2. Fassari (E), 1:02.18; 3.

Atkinson (P), 1:15.18.

100 breast -- 1. Gillmore (P), 1:26.37; 2. Stoddart (P), 1:27.80;

3. Essen (E), 1:27.75.

400 free relay -- 1. Pacifica, 3:47.27.