Coast holds on for win in opener
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Freshman Christen D’Alessandro stole an inbounds pass near midcourt
with less than five seconds remaining to help the Orange Coast
College women’s basketball team open the season with a 60-59 victory
over Solano in the first round of the Mt. San Antonio tournament
Friday.
Sophomore forward Rhondi Naff, a former Costa Mesa High standout,
scored a game-high 24 points while teammate Lauren Stepanski added 11
for Coast, which faces either defending state champion Mt. SAC or
Saddleback in the semifinals at 8:30 tonight. The final would be at 4
p.m. Sunday.
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Mt. San Antonio tournament
Orange Coast 60, Solano 59
OCC -- Stepanski 11, Naff 24, D’Alessandro 5, Katayama 0, McCormick 10, Fernandez 2, Castro 6, Viloria 2, Chades 0. 3-pt. goals -- Naff 3, McCormick 2, D’Alessandro 1. Fouled out -- Katayama. Technicals -- None. Solano -- Shipp 10, Bersda 0, Salvador 2,
Scott 12, Toki 12, Negron 12, Shaw 6, Murphy 3, Steffens 0, Vaka 2, Chambers 0. 3-pt. goals -- Murphy 1. Fouled out -- None. Technicals -- None. Halftime -- OCC, 35-28.
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Wing moves up ladder
* VOLLEYBALL: Senior All-American Kelly Wing tallied a match-high
18 kills while sophomore teammate Trisha White added 13 kills to help host UC Irvine earn a 30-17, 30-22, 30-23 Big West Conference victory
over Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Friday.
Wing also delivered a pair of service aces to pass Olympic gold
medalist and former Newport Harbor High standout Misty May and move
into seventh place on the all-time conference list with 161.
Setter Ashlie Hain finished with 49 assists while junior Amanda
Vazquez tallied a team-high five block assists to go with eight kills
for UCI (17-7, 10-5 in conference). Libero Keegan Featherstone earned
a match-high 16 digs, helping the ‘Eaters gain a 47-35 edge in that
category.
Pirates prevail in four
* VOLLEYBALL: Sophomore Donka Drozd tallied a team-high 22 kills
while teammate Melissa Zapiain amassed 19 kills to help lead the
visiting Orange Coast College women’s volleyball team to a 30-27,
27-30, 30-28, 31-29 Orange Empire Conference victory over Cypress
Friday night.
Zapiain and Nicole Powers each finished with 17 digs while Chontel
Palomino slammed 14 kills for the Pirates (14-4, 10-3 in the OEC),
who won for the 10th time in 11 matches.
Gauchos win in 2nd OT
* SOCCER: Neil Jones of UC Santa Barbara scored from 15 yards out
in the second overtime period in the game’s 106th minute Friday night
as the visiting Gauchos edged UC Irvine, 1-0, before 1,073 fans in a
Big West Conference men’s soccer game.
The Anteaters (7-12-0, 3-6-0 in the Big West) received eight
goalie saves from Cameron Rossi. The Big West champion and top-ranked
Gauchos improved to 17-2-1, 8-2-0.
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