Yelsey Goes for a Second Title
Anne Yelsey won one title Friday and has a chance to claim another today in the Easter Bowl/U.S. Tennis Assn. Super National Championships at Riviera Resort and Racquet Club.
The top-seeded team of Yelsey, a Corona del Mar High senior, and Beverly Hills junior Riza Zalameda defeated fifth-seeded Anaheim Canyon junior Tracy Lin and Leila Hodzic of Cupertino, 6-0, 6-3, to win the girls’ 18 doubles championship.
Yelsey, seeded ninth, defeated No. 14-seeded Long Beach Poly junior Vania King, 0-6, 6-3, 6-1, in a girls’ 18 singles semifinal. She will face fourth-seeded Mary Gambale of Billerica, Mass. in the final match at 11 a.m. today.
In other results, Calabasas sophomore Gary Sacks, seeded No. 4, was outlasted, 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-2, in a boys’ 16 semifinal match by eighth-seeded Christopher Chirico of Bradenton, Fla.
Top-seeded Robert Yim, a former Glendale High standout, was upended, 6-1, 6-1, by No. 3-seeded Joshua Cohen of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. in the boys’ 18 semifinals.
Top-seeded Alexa Glatch of Newport Beach beat No. 2-seeded Maggie Mello of Laguna Beach, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, in a battle of eighth-graders to win the girls’ 14 singles championship. Glatch and Logan Hansen of Santa Monica won the girls’ 14 doubles title.
-- Lauren Peterson
The Jordan Capital Classic boys’ basketball all-star game, which took place Thursday at the MCI Center in Washington, will be televised at 2 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Monday on Fox Sports Net 2.
Participants included LeBron James from Akron (Ohio) St. Vincent-St. Mary, who is expected to be the No. 1 draft selection in the NBA draft, Carson’s Ekene Ibekwe and Santa Ana Mater Dei’s D.J. Strawberry, who are headed to Maryland, and Roderick Steward from Seattle Rainer Beach, who has signed with USC.
Four Southland coaches have been selected 2002-03 CIF Model Coach Award winners for their service as role models in their schools and communities.
The local honorees are Rick Curtis, football coach and girls’ athletic director at Irvine Northwood High; Andy Falk, wrestling coach at Calabasas; Rudy Lugo, football coach at Canoga Park, and Wendy Triplett, girls’ basketball coach and athletic director at Los Angeles Marshall.
They will be honored at the state track and field finals on June 7 at Cerritos College.
Pico Rivera Mesrobian won its third CIF Scholastic state championship with the highest collective grade-point average in girls’ basketball this season.
The Mesrobian girls finished with a 3.92 GPA, ahead of runner-up Riverside La Sierra Academy (3.77).
Santa Barbara Laguna Blanca finished first in boys’ basketball with a 3.60 GPA, followed by Murrieta Calvary Chapel (3.56), San Luis Obispo (3.54) and Upland Christian (3.53). In wrestling, Diamond Bar (3.386) was second to Chula Vista Eastside (3.388).