Noriega Wins San Diego Men’s Collegiate Championship

Weekend rain only delayed the seemingly inevitable--Jose Luis Noriega won the San Diego Collegiate Men’s Tennis Championship on Monday, defeating University of San Diego teammate Fredrik Axsater, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

The finals had been scheduled for Sunday, but the delay didn’t seem to bother Noriega, who won his third San Diego Collegiate title in four years. Noriega, ranked No. 7 in the nation, was the top-seeded player. Axsater, a sophomore from Sweden, was seeded third.

Another USD player, freshman Ignacio Martinez, defeated San Diego State sophomore Chris Numbers, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), for the 3-4 singles championship.

USD’s Kevin Bradley and Philippe Hofmann lost their No. 2 doubles championship match, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, to Steve Summer and Jeff McCann of UC Davis.

Point Loma Nazarene handed Air Force (10-1) its first loss, 5-1, in Point Loma. At No. 1 singles, PLNC’s Enrique Guajardo defeated Dan Oosterhouse, 6-4, 7-6. Mattias Rendefors, Sean Willette, Victor Vernis and John Norton also won for PLNC (2-0).

Earlier in the day, Air Force defeated UC San Diego, 5-1, in La Jolla. The Tritons (0-2) got their only point when Chris Belloli defeated Oosterhouse, 6-4, 6-4.

SAILING

Roy Disney’s Pyewacket, pushed by moderate northwest breezes of 8 to 10 knots, logged 262 nautical miles in 24 hours to leap from third to first at the midway point of the ninth biennial San Diego to Manzanillo race.

The Santa Cruz 70 from the California Yacht Club, winner of last year’s ULDB 70 season championship, averaged 10.9 knots for the day’s run ending at Monday’s 8 a.m. roll call, with 519 miles to go in the 1,100-mile race.

Another sled, Ed McDowell’s Grand Illusion from King Harbor YC, was eight miles behind, followed six miles back by Brack Duker’s Evolution, the previous day’s leader.