Orange Coast captures Palmer Cup

* ROWING: Orange Coast College won the varsity eight final and went

on to capture the Palmer Cup, which goes to the program with the most

overall points, at the Newport Regatta Sunday.

The Pirates’ winning eight, including Ryan Costelloe, Chris

Lentini, Oscar Correa, Wes Temple, John Zeiser, Will Harris, Tom

Redoutey, Nick D’Antoni and coxswain Kate Mead, covered the

2,000-meter course in 5:51.9, nearly two seconds faster than

runner-up Long Beach State.

USC was third and UC Irvine finished sixth.

OCC also won the novice four with J.T. Eger, Jake Carr, Fred

Fielding Russ McShane and their coxswain, whose name was not

available, posting a time of 6:54.7. UCI was third in that race.

OCC also won the novice eight, as Matt Chapman, Zack Papas,

McShane, Jeff Urelland, Carr, Eger, Brian Moran, Fielding and

coxswain Ashley Thomas topped the six-boat field in 6:01.7. UCI was

fifth in that race.

UCI won the second varsity eight, similar to junior varsity

division, with a time of 6:10.9, topping runner-up OCC (6:11.1).

Tars’ boys, girls second

* SWIMMING: The Newport Harbor High boys and girls swimming teams

both finished second at the Palm Springs Invitational, completed

Saturday.

Sailors Hayley Peirsol, Nicole Mackey and Mai Tajima combined to

win five of the eight individual girls events.

Perisol won the 200-yard individual medley (2:07.65) and the 500

freestyle (4:56.22), while Mackey won the 100 butterfly (57.29) and

the 100 breaststroke (1:06.37). Tajima topped the field in the 100

backstroke (1:00.53) and was second in the 200 free (1:58.36).

Andrew Cole (53.67 in the 100 back) and Ross Sinclair (1:51.42 in

the 200 free) posted runner-up finishes to hightlight the Sailor boys

participants.

San Clemente won the boys and girls team title.

Northridge bests UCI

* BASEBALL: The UC Irvine baseball team was defeated by visiting

Cal State Northridge, 13-7, Sunday, in the finale of a three-game Big

West Conference baseball series.

Northridge (11-35, 5-7 in conference) built a 9-2 lead in the

first three innings and held on, though the Anteaters (17-27, 5-7)

scored four in the sixth to pull within 11-7.

Northridge, which won two of three in the series, bashed 18 hits

to UCI’s 13. Gregg Wallis went 3 for 4 to pace the hosts, who also

received two hits from Jon Horwitz, Brett Dalton, Matt Falk and Gary

Dudrey.

*--*

Big West Conference

Score by Innings

Northridge 13, UCI 7

CSUN 342 002 002 -- 13 18 2

UCI 200 014 000 - 7 13 0

Rosales, Robertson (6) and Cayton;

French, Koehler (2), Alstot (3),

Tripoli (6), Schroer (9) and Wagner. W

-- Rosales, 4-6. L -- French, 2-4. 2B

-- Aguailar (N) 2, Akasaka (N), Falk

(UCI) 2, McCarthy (UCI). 3B -- McCauley

(N), Dalton (UCI). HR -- Voita (N),

Cayton (N)

*--*

CdM settles for fourth

* VOLLEYBALL: The Corona del Mar High finished fourth in the Santa

Barbara Tournament of Champions, completed Saturday.

The Sea Kings lost in the championship semifinals to Buchanan of

Fresno, 15-4, 15-9, 15-4, then were outlasted by another Fresno

school, Bullard, 15-8, 14-16, 14-16, 15-8, 15-6, in the third-place

match.

Senior middle blocker Eric Jones had 33 kills in the two matches

to lead the Sea Kings (13-10).

Miles Yourman had 18 kills against Bullard, while Tom Welch and

Kevin Welch had 14 apiece and setter Greg Gabriel amassed 71 assists.

NAC’s Lofgren honored

* ROWING: Newport Aquatic Center junior rowing standout Esther

Lofgren, a senior at Newport Harbor High, has been named to the

scholastic honor roll by U.S. Rowing.

The program recognized 19 seniors who have excelled in both

academics and rowing. Those selected must be U.S. Rowing members,

have rowed or coxed at least one year, and successfully competed at

or above the league or regional level.

Lofgren, who boasts a 4.0 grade-point average this year, is

captain of the NAC junior team.