Dumais Dives Right Back In, Leads Three-Meter Qualifying

Troy Dumais of Ventura, who set two records last week in the junior national championships, led qualifying Wednesday in the men’s three-meter springboard competition of the National Diving Championships.

Last week, Dumais, a senior at Buena High, set an American record with 102.90 points for one dive and set a second by winning his 16th national junior title.

He’s going for his fourth senior title in the three-meter finals on Saturday.

Defending national champion P.J. Bogart was second, followed by two-time U.S. champion Dean Panaro and Justin Dumais, a recent graduate of Buena and a freshman at USC.

Quantified: Kristine Quance of Northridge won the 200-meter individual medley in 2:13.79 at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

Quance also placed fourth in the 200 breaststroke.

Lenny Krayzelburg of Studio City swam the opening leg of the men’s 400-medley relay team, which finished in a meet record of 3:36.93.

Jennifer Parmenter of Granada Hills was fourth in the 200 IM and Carly Geehr of La Canada Flintridge was 17th in the 200 breaststroke.

In the long run: Erik Harr of Fairfax and Lauren Alexander of San Jose won the Mike & Rob’s Most Excellent Long Course Triathlon in Ventura on Sunday.

Harr won the men’s division in 3:58:22 and Alexander timed 4:26:14 to win the women’s division.

Quannah Ridenour of Ojai and Katherine Niblett of Shell Beach were the winners in the Sprint Division.

Third-class: The Ventura County Pumas finished third in the 14-and-under ASA national softball tournament in Rockford, Ill., over the weekend.

Oli Keohohou had a two-run home run and three runs batted in an elimination game the Pumas lost, 4-3, to the West Bay (Burlingame) Nuggets.

Golden moment: The Valencia Choppers finished seventh in the 18-and-under Gold Softball national championships in Oklahoma City over the weekend.

Other teams from the region in the tournament included the Stealth, which wound up ninth, and the Sylmar Panthers, who finished 24th. The tournament was won by the Orange County Batbusters.

Net loss: Erin Boisclair of Agoura Hills and Jessica Lehnhoff of Cooper City, Fla., were beaten, 5-7, 6-4, 4-6, in the third-place match of the United States Tennis Assn. girls’ 18’s junior national championships Sunday at the Almaden Valley Athletic Club in San Jose.

Pitt bound: Cande Ruiz, a 1997 Santa Clara High graduate, has committed to play soccer at Pittsburgh, said Mike Evans, Ruiz’s club coach the past five years.

Ruiz, a forward who also considered Pepperdine, will receive a full scholarship from the Panthers, Evans said.

Hooping it up: An American Roundball Corp. 10-and-under team from the Valley advanced in the Amateur Athletic Union national championships in Orlando, Fla., with a 57-39 victory over Baltimore.

The Valley squad will play Indiana today in the quarterfinals.