LOCAL NOTES : Ocean View Team Advances to Final of Baseball Series

Nick Valencia hit a three-run homer and three pitchers combined on a four-hitter Saturday as Ocean View defeated Kauai, Hawaii, 10-0, in the Palomino World Series in Greensboro, N.C.

Keith Cowley, Nick D’Amato and Joe Fraser each had two hits for Ocean View, which already had clinched a berth in today’s championship game against Johnson City, Tenn.

In three games, Ocean View has outscored its opponents, 25-0 and allowed eight hits.

Geoff Abrams of Newport Beach defeated Keith Brill of Columbia, S.C., 5-7, 6-2, 6-1, in the final of the U.S. Tennis Assn. boys’ 14 championship at San Antonio.

Mike Briggs and Trevor Kronemann, former UC Irvine standouts, fell a match short of reaching their second IBM/ATP Tour doubles final of the year, when they lost to Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde of Australia, 6-2, 6-4, in a semifinal match of the ATP Championship at Mason, Ohio.

Earlier in the tournament, Briggs and Kronemann had defeated Rick Leach of Laguna Beach and Kelly Jones, who were seeded fourth, and Scott Davis and David Pate, who were seeded fifth.

Briggs and Kronemann had won a tournament in Tampa in April, their first on the tour.

Angela Rock of El Toro and Linda Carrillo of Van Nuys lost to Karolyn Kirby of San Diego and Nancy Reno of Carlsbad, 12-3, 12-3, in the final of the FIVB Beach Volleyball Olympic Year ’92 championship at Almeria, Spain.

David Warady of Huntington Beach had more than a half-hour shaved off his lead in the 57th of 64 stages of the Runner’s World Trans America Footrace.

Warady was fifth in the 36.96-mile stage from Ligonier, Pa., to Schellsburg, Pa., completing the distance in 6 hours 39 minutes 17 seconds. Milan Milanovic of Switzerland, second overall, was second in 6:05:30, and now trails by 14:03:30.

Emile Laharrague of France won his second consecutive stage, finishing in 5:19:37.

The race continues with a 44-mile stage from Schellsburg to McConnellsburg, Pa.

Bob May of La Habra moved into a tie for seventh place after shooting a three-under-par 69 in the second round of the Ben Hogan Texarkana Open at Texarkana, Ark.

May was at seven-under 137 for the tournament, six shots behind leader Perry Moss.

May was tied for 13th after an opening-round 68.