May, McPeak Advance in Tournament

Top-seeded Misty May, formerly of Newport Harbor High, and Holly McPeak and third-seeded Annett Davis and Jenny Johnson Jordan won their third-round matches Saturday to advance to the fourth round of the FIVB women’s tournament in Osaka, Japan.

May and McPeak, Davis and Johnson Jordan, Liz Masakayan and Elaine Youngs, formerly of El Toro High, and Lisa Arce and Barbra Fontana all won two matches Friday.

Masakayan-Youngs and Arce-Fontana lost their third-round matches.

At the FIVB men’s event in Klagenfurt, Austria, San Clemente’s Karch Kiraly and Adam Johnson won two matches to advance to the winners’ bracket quarterfinals.

Eric Fonoimoana and Dain Blanton, formerly of Laguna Beach High, lost their second-round match of the double-elimination tournament, but remained alive in the losers’ bracket with a victory.

BASEBALL

UC Irvine hired Jason Gill and Pat Shine as assistant baseball coaches.

Gill, a Tustin High graduate, was a player and assistant coach for Cal State Fullerton and spent the last two seasons as an assistant at Loyola Marymount.

Shine was the independent Northwoods League manager of the year in 1999.

SOFTBALL

Orange County’s Southern California Belles eliminated the Southern California Athletics, the defending champion of the ASA Junior Olympic Gold Nationals, 1-0, in a second-round losers’ bracket game in St. Louis.

The USA Athletics of Santa Ana also won a losers’ bracket game.

Southern California Hot Stuff from Yorba Linda won a losers’ bracket game, but the Southern California Rebels of Placentia were eliminated.

SOCCER

The Waves will face the Bay Area Seals at 7 tonight in an A-League soccer game at Santa Ana Stadium.

The Waves (10-12-1) are tied for third in the Pacific Division.