Unbeaten Ocean View Blanks New Mexico

Chris Palmer struck out 10 to lead the Ocean View Little League team from Huntington Beach to a 3-0 pool-play victory over New Mexico in the Western Regional tournament Thursday in San Bernardino.

Hank Conger pitched the sixth inning and after the first batter reached on an error, he struck out the next three with 11 pitches.

Ocean View, which is undefeated in the double elimination tournament, scored three runs in the fifth on consecutive doubles by Palmer, Thomas Yoo and Jeff Mollica. Jeff Van Doornum drove in the final run with a single.

Ocean View will play Arizona in another pool play game Saturday.

* Bobby Crosby, formerly of La Quinta High School, drove in five runs to lead the U.S. National Team to a 9-1 victory over Cuba at the Baseball Week in Haarlem tournament in the Netherlands.

Crosby, who had two hits and scored a run, gave Team USA an 8-0 lead in the third inning, with a three-run home run. Cal State Fullerton junior Kirk Saarloos pitched a scoreless ninth inning for Team USA’s sixth-consecutive victory.

USC freshman Anthony Reyes is scheduled to start for Team USA against the Netherlands on Saturday, in the final game.

DIVING

Jud Campbell of Camila, Ga., won his first national title, defeating 2000 Olympian Troy Dumais in the 1-meter springboard final at the U.S. Outdoor National championships in Mission Viejo. Campbell finished with 366.51 points, edging Dumais’ score of 365.43.

Dumais, who qualified for the Olympics in the 3-meter springboard, hasn’t used the 1-meter board in eight months. He will compete in the quarterfinals of the 3-meter event today at 3 p.m., followed by the semifinals.

Irvine’s Louie Gagnet finished fifth with 305.76 points.

In the women’s 10-meter platform, Kim Berbari of Huntington Beach advanced to the finals in seventh place with 401.88 points. Laura Wilkinson of Texas advanced in first place with 478.41 points.

San Juan Capistrano’s Kristen Marquis and Mission Viejo’s Tiffany Manning failed to qualify.

The women’s 1-meter quarterfinals and finals are today.

TENNIS

Fourth-seeded Tracy Lin of Anaheim defeated Alessandra Jordan of El Paso, Texas, 6-2, 6-1, in Thursday’s quarterfinals of the U.S. Tennis Assn. Girls’ 14 Super National Championships in Georgia.

Lin faces No. 2-seeded Lejla Hodzic of Cupertino in semifinals.

* Ninth-seeded Jamea Jackson of Fairburn, Ga., defeated Lindsey Nelson of Orange, 6-2, 6-4, in the girls’ 16 Super National Tennis Championships in San Diego.