Girls volleyball: Sailors swept

IRVINE - Host Irvine High earned a resounding 15-3, 15-6, 15-8 Sea

View League-opening girls volleyball victory over Newport Harbor Monday,

ending the Sailors’ 39-match league winning streak and leaving Coach Dan

Glenn thoroughly disappointed.

“It’s one thing to lose and another to be embarrassed,” Glenn said.

“We haven’t lost a league match in five years (the ninth match of the

1995 league campaign to Santa Margarita) and I can’t remember the last

time we lost a match, league or nonleague, this badly. Irvine beat us in

all phases of the game.”

Included in the Harbor woes were 21 hitting errors, to only 15 Sailor

kills, rendering a negative hitting percentage. Senior outside hitter

Taylor Govaars paced the Tars with seven kills.

“Irvine had something to do with that with a big block, but we hit a

ton of balls out or into the net,” Glenn said. “(Irvine, ranked No. 5 in

Orange County) played well, and we didn’t. It was kind of like the Mater

Dei match (a three-game sweep Wednesday), in that we just didn’t fight.

We have the talent to play with these teams, but ...”

Newport, ranked No. 3 in Orange County, fell to 1-4, while Irvine

improved to 6-1.