May-Treanor eyes title

Misty May-Treanor, a Newport Harbor High product, and her partner

Kerri Walsh advanced to today’s gold medal match of the SWATCH-FIVB

beach volleyball world championships following a semifinal victory

Friday in Berlin.

The reigning Olympic and world champions, May-Treanor and Walsh

will face the top-seeded Brazilian tandem of Felisberta Silva and

Larissa Franca in the title match.

May-Treanor and Walsh, seeded No. 19, secured a forfeit win over

Tian Jia and Wang Fei of China to advance.

Fei, 23, injured her left knee in the 52nd minute of the semifinal

contest and was taken to a local hospital for X-rays.

The American duo was leading in the deciding Game 3 when the

injury occurred.

Dent triumphs again

* TENNIS: Taylor Dent, a former Corona del Mar high standout,

reached the fourth round of men’s singles competition at Wimbledon

for the first time in his career following a third-round sweep over

Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic Friday at The All England Lawn

Tennis Club.

Dent, ranked 29th in the Association of Tennis Professionals point

standings this year, earned a 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 victory over

Berdych to reach the round of 16 for the first time in five

appearances at Wimbledon.

The 24-year-old, the No. 24 seed, will face No. 3-seeded Lleyton

Hewitt of Australia in the round of 16.

Dent, the 1996 CIF Southern Section boys singles champion, reached

the third round at Wimbledon in 2002 and 2004. He defeated Newport

Coast resident Kevin Kim in the second round Wednesday following a

grueling first-round victory over Belgium’s Dick Norman.

Defending Wimbledon women’s singles champion and No. 2-seeded

Maria Sharapova, a member of World Team Tennis’ Newport Beach

Breakers, is scheduled to play Slovenia’s Katarina Srebotnik in the

third round today.

Jablonsky honored

VOLLEYBALL: UC Irvine men’s volleyball star Jayson Jablonsky, a

sophomore outside hitter, has been named a second-team

ASICS/Volleyball Magazine All-American in the publication’s July 2005

issue.

A second-team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation honoree,

Jablonsky averaged 4.0 kills and 1.3 digs per game this season.

He led the Anteaters in kills and was ranked sixth in kills and

eighth in points among MPSF players.

Jablonsky recorded at least 10 kills in 24 matches this spring.

He averaged 21 kills over the last five matches.

Coach John Speraw’s Anteaters finished with a 9-20 record, 7-15 in

the MPSF.

Locals in competition

* SURFING: Three Newport Beach residents and one Costa Mesa

resident will be competing in the Surfing America USA championships,

an amateur event, held Monday through July 2 at Huntington Beach.

The four are vying for qualification, along with 356 others, to

the amateur 2005 USA surf team, which will compete at the

International Surfing Association world junior championships -- also

at Huntington Beach -- in October.

Newport Beach’s Andrew Doheny will be participating in the boys

under-16 division, while fellow Newport Beach resident Ford Archbold

will be competing in the boys under-14 age group.

Costa Mesa’s Allan Kincade is slated to surf in the boys under-18

division.

Sheila Huber, of Newport Beach, is competing in the women’s open

division.

Kincade, Archbold and Doheny have edged their competition in the

National Scholastic Surfing Association to qualify for the

championships, while Huber qualified with her dominant competition in

the Western Surfing Association.

All four locals will be surfing against athletes coming from three

other regional member organizations of Surfing America, spanning from

the East Coast to Hawaii.

Tennis camp to begin

* TENNIS: A summer tennis camp will be held for juniors ages 6 to

15, beginning Monday through September 2 at Park Newport.

Dave Sherbeck, who is the camp director, is a former Wimbledon

quarterfinalist, and has directed the camp for 16 years.

The camp will be hosted by Brandis Braverman, a former touring

professional, and will feature 10 one-week sessions including games,

prizes and lunches.

The sessions are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and

will focus on fundamentals, drills and court etiquette.

For information, contact Sherbeck by e-mail at [email protected],

or by telephone: (949) 533-7714.

Breakers offer tips

* TENNIS: The Newport Beach Recreation and Senior Services

department, as well as the Newport Beach Breakers will be hosting a

free tennis clinic at San Joaquin Tennis Courts July 2.

The clinic will feature professional tennis player Devin Bowen, a

member of the Breakers, who won the 2004 World Team Tennis

championship.

The event is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., for ages 6-14 and will focus

on the fundamentals of tennis.

To reserve one of 70 spots, call (949) 644-3151.

OCC third in state

* ATHLETICS: Orange Coast College finished third among 109

community colleges in the 2004-05 Pepsi/National Alliance of Two-Year

College Athletic Administrators Cup.

State titles in men’s and women’s cross country, as well as

women’s tennis helped OCC crack the top five.

Fresno City College finished first with 165.5 points, followed by

Mt. San Antonio College (161.5) and OCC (160).

The standings were based on fall and spring teams’ post-

conference competition. Only a school’s top five men’s and women’s

teams were included.

Other OCC teams adding to its total were women’s swimming, track

and field, water polo, soccer and volleyball, along with men’s

swimming, baseball, track and field and soccer.

Saddleback (ninth) and Riverside (10th) also represented the

Orange Empire Conference in the top 10.

UCI student-athletes

* HONORS: Twenty-one UC Irvine student-athletes were named to the

Big West Academic All-Conference team for their accomplishments

during the spring.

In all, 197 student-athletes from 10 member institutions earned

the honor in sports such as baseball, softball, men’s and women’s

tennis, men’s and women’s track and field, as well as men’s and

women’s golf.

UCI’s recipients are: baseball player Gregg Wallis (political

science); men’s tennis players Ryusuke Kashiwabara (international

studies) and Peter Surapol (economics); women’s tennis player Anna

Bentzer (psychology); men’s track and field athletes Mike Beerer

(mechanical engineering), Michael Cao (psychology and social

behavior/sociology), Aaron Corbett (psychology), Matt Grilli

(psychology), Storm Huie (sociology), Fred Lee (criminology), Curtis

Lehmann (psychology) and Jeremy Torres (computer engineering); and

women’s track and field athletes Lauren Adams (biological sciences),

Jennifer Lewis (English and film studies), Kirsten Loftin

(criminology), Angela Lotito (political science), Kim Ramirez

(psychology and biological sciences), Corica Rodgers (biological

sciences), Natalie St. Andre (film studies), Kristen Silverman

(political science) and Kelli Vanderburg (psychology and social

behavior).

To be eligible, athletes must maintain a 3.2 cumulative

grade-point average, complete one full academic year prior to the

season for which the award is being received -- at least a sophomore

academically -- and compete in at least half their team’s contests.