Shadowlands

Looking back, 5 years ago this week.

The Newport Harbor High girls volleyball team trounces Dana Hills,

15-3, 15-2, 15-8, as senior Laura Wells records 11 digs in the quick

three-set match. Sophomore April Ross records a game-high 11 kills on

several passes from setter Jennifer Carey.

The Corona del Mar Sea Kings score four first-half touchdowns and

hold off Canyon High, 20-13, for their first win of the season.

Starting in his first game at free safety, Mychael Henry intercepts a

pass to stifle a Comanche comeback drive at the Sea King 21. Canyon

recovers a fumble with 1:30 left at their own 37-yard line to set-up

the drive. Corona del Mar features a balanced run-pass offense as a

pair of 25-yard Bubb Rader field goals sandwich a seven-play, 43-yard

TD drive set up by Tyler Brower’s fumble recovery and the Sea Kings

had a 13-0 lead.

CdM collects 208 rushing yards on 38 carries compared to Canyon’s

20 rushes for 37 yards with junior Craig Levine carrying 16 times for

91 yards.

An Orange Empire Conference men’s water polo showdown becomes

violent as Orange Coast College survives with a 15-13 overtime win as

Ryan Dandy scores the game-winning goal in overtime and adds an

insurance goal in the final minute as the Pirates beat visiting

Saddleback to improve to 8-2, 1-0. The Pirates’ Jake French and Gus

Fowler each score four goals apiece as French suffers a bloody eye

and Fowler gets hit in the face. Trailing 3-1 after one quarter, the

Pirates score six times in the second quarter to take a 7-4 halftime

lead. Costa Mesa’s James Comfort scores two goals and CdM’s Mike Bisc

tallies three assists for OCC.

The Midget Cowboys’ Nick Cabico scores four touchdowns in leading

the Cowboys (2-1) to a 44-12 win over the Huntington Beach Broncos.

Cabico scores with an interception, reception, run from scrimmage and

a second-half kickoff.

Looking back, 10 years ago this week:

Costa Mesa girls basketball coach Jim Weeks resigns from his

position, 10 weeks before the start of the 1992-93 basketball season

saying, “I just think the team and I are in different places. For

them to be successful I’m not the right coach for them now.” Weeks

stays on to assist the Costa Mesa basketball tournament held in late

December. During Weeks’ six years at Costa Mesa the Mustangs compile

a 91-70 record, including a CIF championship team that included

then-freshman Olivia DiCamilli, who enters the 1992-93 season as a

senior and three-time All-CIF player. Weeks says he would re-apply

for the job again as early as the following year should a vacancy

surface.

The Newport Harbor High boys cross country team secures a pair of

Sea View League victories at the Bonita Creek Park course as Newport

edges Santa Margarita, 25-31, and easily outlasts Woodbridge, 15-43,

in the tri-meet. The Newport girls also defeat Santa Margarita,

26-29, and Woodbridge, 16-43.

Sky Peterka (15:36), Trent Bryson (16:01), Dylan Guggenmos and

sophomore Shahram Dezahd lead the way. In girls action, the Sailors’

Gwen Twist and Heather Davidson place 1-2 to sport the victory as

Newport’s Sandra DeAngelo places fourth by just three seconds.

The No. 1-ranked Sea Kings in CIF Southern Section Division III

girls cross country and the No. 3 team in the county, easily defeat

the No. 2 team in the county and the 15th-ranked team in the nation,

Irvine, 25-33.

The Costa Mesa football team earns its first win of the season, a

pummeling 36-6 nonleague victory over Los Amigos as Costa Mesa

tailback Binh rushes 30 times for 226 yards, including touchdown runs

of 72, 24, and 1 yards.

-- compiled by

Bryce Alderton