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Miscellany

Erica Sorgi of Mission Viejo finished second to Kathy Pesek of the University of Tennessee in the 10-meter event at the U.S. Spring National Diving Championships Wednesday. The top eight finishers qualify for the national team. . . . Two months after being forced out of ABC’s “Monday Night Football” booth, Dan Dierdorf was hired by CBS, the network he left in 1987. CBS will team Dierdorf, 49, with Verne Lundquist as its No. 2 NFL broadcasting team. Dierdorf is expected to make about $1 million a year at CBS, a significant pay cut from the $1.75 million he earned with ABC. . . . Michelle Kwan, the three-time U.S. figure skating champion, says she will enter UCLA this fall. Kwan, 19, will continue competing in her sport’s most prestigious events. . . . Ron Newman resigned as coach of Major League Soccer’s Kansas City Wizards after an 0-4 start. Assistant coach Ken Fogarty was appointed interim coach. . . . Ecuador and Mexico played a scoreless tie in Monterrey. . . . Craig Snider has resigned as boys’ basketball coach at La Quinta High and Johnny Johnson has done the same at Orange High, their athletic directors announced Wednesday. Snider left to become assistant men’s basketball coach at Fullerton College and Johnson left for personal reasons. . . . Aliso Niguel’s Garrett Turk has signed to play soccer at the University of San Diego, Beth, his mother, said. . . . Valencia’s Katie Etherton has signed to play soccer at Cal State Fullerton, the school announced, as have goalkeeper Blythe Curran from Huntington Beach, midfielder Nicole Mularkey from Los Alamitos and defender Leah Sims from Villa Park.