Newport Harbor sixth at Tournament of Champions

* VOLLEYBALL: Sixth-seeded Newport Harbor High lost to No. 8-seed

Santa Barbara, 15-11, 8-15, 11-15, 18-20, in the fifth-place match of

the Santa Barbara Tournament of Champions Saturday.

Newport (14-11) was leading, 10-1, in Game 4, before Santa Barbara

scored eight straight points to get back into it and eventually win

the match.

Senior Mike Toole paced the Tars with 11 kills, followed by nine

from Paul Toman, seven from Michael McDonald, five from Nick Kelly

and three apiece from Nick Glassic and Jamie Diefenbach.

Kelly led with 26 assists followed by 16 from Adam Schlesinger.

Toole added four solo blocks and Toman had two solos along with four

assisted blocks.

Newport defeated San Marcos, 11-15, 15-12, 15-9, 16-14, in a

fifth-place semifinal earlier Saturday.

Hornets blank Pirates

* BASEBALL: Orange Coast College sophomore pitcher Jimmy Treece

pitched, arguably, the best game of his season Saturday. But, thanks

to a pair of unearned runs, had only a 2-0 Orange Empire Conference

baseball loss to Fullerton to show for it.

Treece yielded just five hits and two walks in his first

complete-game, but two OCC errors led to the game’s only runs in the

fifth.

Adding to the frustration for OCC (18-19-1, 7-14 in conference)

was its eight runners left on base, including two in the first and

two in the eighth.

Freshmen Ben Hanna and Jeff Piaskowski each had hits for OCC.

*--*

Orange Empire Conference

Fullerton 2, OCC 0

Score by Innings

OCC 000 000 000 -- 0 2 2

Fullerton 000 020 000 -- 2 5 2

Treece and Hicks; Schmidt, N/A (4),

N/A (7) and Morales. W -- N/A. L --

Treece, 5-6. 3B -- Foreman (F)

*--*

UCI falls in semifinals

* TENNIS: The UC Irvine men’s and women’s tennis teams both lost

in the semifinals of the Big West Conference championship Saturday in

Danville.

The men were defeated, 4-0, by UC Santa Barbara, while the women

dropped a 4-1 decision to Long Beach State.

Sophomore Anna Bentzer was the lone singles winner for either UCI

team Saturday.

UCI’s men finish 12-10, while the women conclude their season at

14-10.

‘Eaters play for ninth

* WATER POLO: Erica Horman scored twice in the first three mintues

and the UC Irvine women’s water polo team held Pacific scoreless

through three quarters to earn a 9-2 win Saturday in the ninth-place

semifinals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships at

Stanford University.

Lauren Volcan finished with a team-high three goals for UCI

(19-21), which plays San Jose State today for ninth place.

*--*

MPSF Championships

Ninth-place semifinal UCI 9, Pacific 2

Score by Quarters

Pacific 0 0 0 2 -- 2

UC Irvine 4 2 2 1 -- 9

Pacific -- Tucker 1, McNeley 1. Saves -- Ross 4.

UC Irvine -- Volcan 3, Horman 2, O’Connell 2,

Wedemeyer 1, Carey 1. Saves -- Chamblee

*--*

Biola sweeps Lions

* SOFTBALL: The Vanguard University softball team wrapped up its

regular season with a pair of Golden State Athletic Conference losses

Saturday at Biola.

The Eagles won the first game, 6-4 then posted a 6-3 triumph in

the second game, despite three doubles and two RBIs by Vanguard’s

Ashley Mauro.

Mauro also doubled in the first game and was 4 for 8 with four

RBIs on the day.

Vanguard finishes 27-26-1, 10-18 in conference, while Biola is now

25-27, 12-16.

*--*

Golden State Athletic Conference

Game 1

Biola 6, Vanguard 4

Score by Innings

Vanguard 010 300 0 - 4 8 0

Biola 013 020 x - 6 13 0

Ball and Rolle; Benavidez and Menjares. W -

Benavidez, 14-13. L - Ball, 10-15. 2B -

Mauro (VU), Gray (B), Anderson (B)

*--*

*--*

Game 2

Biola 6, Vanguard 3

Score by Innings

Vanguard 001 020 0 -- 3 8 2

Biola 101 400 x -- 6 12 1

Jessen, Ball (4) and Smidt, Rolle (5);

Gray, Dinsmore (6) and Menjares. W --

Gray, 6-7. L -- Jessen, 4-3. Sv --

Dinsmore (1). 2B -- Mauro (VU) 3, Jackson

(VU), Martinez (VU), Gray (B), R. Anderson

(B), Menjares (B)

*--*