UCI to play in three TV games

The UC Irvine men’s basketball team will be included in three of the

nine games on Fox Sports Net West 2 in the Big West Conference

television package announced by Big West Commissioner Dennis Farrell

Thursday. The package includes eight regular-season men’s games and

the championship game of the women’s postseason league tournament.

The deal features a departure from Thursday night telecasts to a

Saturday format with starting times ranging from the early afternoon

to the evening. UCI’s exposure includes one home game (Jan. 17

against Cal State Fullerton at 1 p.m.) and two road contests.

CdM trounces Troy

* TENNIS: The Corona del Mar High girls team swept in doubles to

earn a 13-5 triumph over nonleague visitor Troy Thursday.

Senior Jackie Manning teamed with freshman Miranda Young at No. 1

doubles, while the tandems of junior Jami Steele and freshman Hayley

Young, as well as senior Juliette Mutzke and freshman Jillian

Braverman, also failed to drop a set for the Sea Kings, who improved

to 2-1.

*--*

Nonleague

CdM 13, Troy 5

Singles - Holland (CdM) def. Mahader, 6-0, def. Satya, 6-0, lost to Fermin, 4-6; Rubenstein (CdM) won, 6-2, lost, 3-6, (sub) Miller (CdM) won, 6-3; Damion (CdM) lost to Ciabanu, 0-6, lost, 5-7, (sub) Carnahan (CdM) lost, 2-6. Doubles - Manning-M. Young

(CdM)

def. Hyan-Schlater, 7-6, def. Vicaldo-Chow, 6-4, def. Lee-Randera, 6-0; Steele-H. Young (CdM) won, 7-5, 6-1, 6-2; Mutzke-Braverman (CdM) won, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0

*--*

Eagles remain unbeaten

* TENNIS: Host Estancia High’s girls tennis team improved to 3-0

with its third consecutive 17-1 Golden West League victory, downing

Saddleback Thursday.

Yvonne Zaidler and Sara Stratton swept their singles matches while

Stacie Nellor took two of three sets at No. 1 singles for the Eagles.

Huong Thai and Kittiya Sudhikam lost only one game at No. 1 doubles

for Estancia. Asia Ingram and Heather Morton teamed to win all three

sets at No. 2 doubles. Kathryn Kulczyk and Hannah Simmons added two

victories as the third doubles team with Sage O’Toole and Sarah

Muradian substituting in and winning one set.

*--*

Golden West League

Estancia 17, Saddleback 1 Singles - Nellor (E) lost to Christina Bell, 4-6, def. S. Diep, 6-0, def. S. Markwardt 6-0; Zaidler (E) won, 7-5, 6-0, 6-0 (by default); Stratton (E) won, 6-0 (by default), 6-2, 6-0. Doubles -- Thai-Sudhikam (E) def. B. Troung-V. Nguyen, 6-1, def. D.

Bernal-J. Mazariegos, 6-0, def. S. Benavides-M. Martinez, 6-0; Ingram-Morton (E) won, 6-1, 6-1, 6-0; Kulczyk-Simmons won, 6-1, 6-0, (sub) Muradian-O’Toole (E) won, 6-4

*--*

Lightning dominate

* TENNIS: The Sage Hill School girls tennis team opened Academy

League play with a 16-2 victory over Whitney Thursday at Park

Newport.

Freshmen singles players Stephanie Langer and Sarah Geocaris each

swept for the Lightning (2-1, 1-0 in league).

*--*

Academy League

Sage Hill 16, Whitney 2

Singles - Langer (SH) won, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1; Geocaris (SH) won, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1; Sweeny (SH) lost, 2-6, won, 6-4, lost, 3-6. Doubles - Tsoong-Flynn (SH) won, 7-5, 6-3, (sub) Levine-Flynn won, 6-0; Hsu-Andrews (SH) won, 6-3, 6-1, (sub) Hsu-Hultman won, 6-2;

Heyler-Cummings (SH) won, 7-6, (sub) Webb-Graham won, 6-3, 6-4

*--*

Jacobs shoots career low

* GOLF: Junior Ashley Jacobs shot 43 to lead the Newport Harbor

High girls golf team to a 245-254 nonleague victory over Villa Park

Thursday on the par-36 Orange course at Green River Golf Club in

Corona.

Jacobs beat her personal best by one shot a day after shooting a

44 in a 231-234 win over Mission Viejo Wednesday. Jacobs birdied the

par-3, 127-yard ninth hole Thursday. Natalie Draganza and Kayleigh

Horn each shot 46 while Katie McKay carded a 53. Marissa Zehnder shot

57 for Newport (4-0).

Ball falls in quarters

* TENNIS: Corona del Mar High graduate Cameron Ball and partner

Tim Lloyd lost to fellow Americans Ryan Fleming and Adam Marchetti,

6-4, 6-1, in a doubles quarterfinal of the Diadora Pro Championships,

a United States Tennis Association Futures tour stop, at the Costa

Mesa Tennis Center.

Two U.S. doubles teams will play in one semifinal match at 1 p.m.

today when the team of Travis Rettenmaier and Robert Yim competes

against Fleming and Marchetti. Pehar and Nenad Toroman face Hanlin

and Vlaski at 1 p.m. today in the other doubles semifinal.

David Martin defeated fellow American Mirko Pehar, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3,

Thursday to advance to today’s singles quarterfinals. Martin plays at

10 a.m. today against sixth-seeded Aleksandar Vlaski while American

Brian Wilson competes against Austrian Robert Haybittel at 11:30 a.m.

Jimy Szymanski and Luka Gregorc will face each other at 11:30 a.m.

while Matthew Hanlin and Alejandro Asta meet one another at 10 a.m.

to round out singles play.

Finals in both singles and doubles will be Sunday.

Sailors rout Lions

* FIELD HOCKEY: Visiting Newport Harbor made a shooting gallery

out of the Westminster High field Thursday on the way to a 9-0

nonleague triumph.

The Sailors (3-0) fired 43 shots at the Lions, whose tandem of

goalies combined for 32 saves.

Meanwhile, Newport goalie Ciara Lawrence was not required to make

a save to record the shutout.

Senior Tiffany Vandersloot led the offensive onslaught with three

goals, while senior Ashley Harrison and senior Kristen Jendrusina

each had a goal and two assists.

Jillianne Whitfield, Dana Owad, Danielle Pfaff and Danica Kalmbach

also had goals for the winners, who received additional assists from

Ashley Gleason and Lauren Curtis.