Draganza advances

Newport Harbor High junior Natalie Draganza shot 77 at the CIF

Southern Section individual girls golf championship at Mission Lakes

Country Club Wednesday -- good enough to qualify for the Women’s

Southern California Golf Association tournament Monday.

The top 28 advanced to the WSCGA event, though Draganza’s specific

placing was not available.

The top six golfers at the SCGA Members’ Club in Murrieta Monday

(8 a.m.) will advance to the state tournament Tuesday at the Red Hill

Country Club in Rancho Cucamonga.

OCC teams earn berths

* SOCCER: The Orange Coast College men’s and women’s soccer teams

will both have their seasons extended starting Tuesday in the

Southern California regional playoffs.

The Coast men (10-4-5) were seeded seventh among 12 teams and will

host 10th-seeded Santa Barbara at 2 p.m. The Pirates and the Vaqueros

(11-6-3) played to a draw on Sept. 8.

The ninth-seeded Coast women (10-4-2) will visit eighth-seeded

Santa Clarita Tuesday at a time to be determined.

The Cougars took top honors in the Western State Conference

Southern Division with an overall record of 13-2-3.

McKitterick ousted

* GOLF: Corona del Mar High junior Katie McKitterick shot

10-over-par 82 at the CIF Southern Section individual girls golf

championship at Mission Lakes Country Club Wednesday, falling just

short of qualifying for the Women’s Southern California Golf

Association tournament Monday.

McKitterick, in her second year playing golf, helped lead the CdM

golf team to an 11-1 record and a ninth-place finish at the CIF girls

team championship.

Nationals beckon VU

* CROSS COUNTRY: The Vanguard University women’s cross country

team has qualified for an at-large berth into the NAIA national

championships. The Lions will make their first appearance as a team

to the event Nov. 20 in Louisville, Ky.

Vanguard, the 25th-ranked team in the NAIA, finished fourth at the

NAIA Region II championships in Fresno last weekend. The Lions, led

by all-region performers Jenny Thune and Liz Huipe (Estancia),

finished ahead of 15th-ranked Cal State San Marcos, moving ahead in

the selection process enough to receive the final at-large berth into

the 28-team national meet.

Day, Weldon honored

* SOCCER: Former Costa Mesa High standout Sharon Day has earned

first-team All-Big West Conference honors in women’s soccer, while UC

Irvine senior Tara Weldon is a second-team honoree.

Day, a sophomore forward at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, has scored a

team-high 11 goals and added 1 assist for the Mustangs (11-2-6, 5-1-3

in conference), who won the Big West tournament Sunday at UCI.

Day and the Mustangs will meet Stanford in the first round of the

NCAA championships today at Santa Clara University.

Weldon, a defender, had three assists for the Anteaters (4-14-2,

1-8-0). She was a second-team honoree in 2002 and received honorable

mention in 2003.

UCI sophomore forward Britney Webster, who scored three goals and

added seven assists for a team-high 13 points, received honorable

mention.

Tom, Jones recognized

* SWIMMING AND DIVING: Freshman Randall Tom and freshman Jackie

Jones were each named Big West Conference Athletes of the Week after

their performances at the Big West Shootout at the Anteater Aquatics

Complex last week in their first collegiate meet.

Tom won the 50-yard freestyle (20.94). He finished second in the

100-yard butterfly with a time of 49.76, the third-fastest time in

UCI history. He was also a member of the 200 medley relay team that

swam a time of 1:32.45, the second fastest at UCI.

Jones won both the one-meter and three-meter diving competitions

at the Big West Shootout. Her score of 292.20 on the three-meter

board qualified her for the NCAA diving regionals and was the

second-best score in UCI history. She helped lead UCI to third place

in the meet, as it compiled a 5-3 record in dual meets.

The Anteaters will next compete at the UCI/Speedo Cup held Nov.

18-20 at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach.