Rojas snaps record in 1,600 (4:24.08)

* TRACK AND FIELD: Estancia High’s track and field team

distinguished itself on two fronts Saturday, competing at the San

Pedro Relays and the Irvine Invitational.

Among the highlights at San Pedro for Coach Charlie Appell’s

Eagles were winning efforts in the 1,600 meters by Humberto Rojas

with a stadium and meet record time of 4:24.08 and twin winners in

the high jump where senior Zack Novak and junior Scott Sankey shared

honors with 6-foot-4 leaps.

Also, in the 4 x 800 relay, Abel Flores, Adrian Jimenez, Panfilo

Elias and Rojas combined for a winning time of 8:22.51.

At Irvine, Diana Rosete was second in the 3,200 meters with a time

of 11:36.86. Results in depth for the Estancia athletes are listed

below.

Sailors post 5-2 win

* SOFTBALL: Sophomore Ashley Gleason picked up her first win of

the season in the circle and the Newport Harbor High softball team

recorded a 5-2 nonleague win over visiting Orange Lutheran Saturday.

Gleason went 4 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on five hits with

three strikeouts. She also knocked Newport’s only extra-base hit

Saturday in the third inning with a one-out double to center field to

score Amanda Campbell and Shelby Crisp, who had both reached on

singles. Kayleigh Horn had a sacrifice bunt to move the runners to

second and third prior to Gleason’s hit.

Newport (7-2) scored three in the third inning and added two

insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth on four consecutive singles

by Athena Vasquez, Julianne Bass, Kim Moore and Campbell. Moore

relieved Gleason in the final 2 1/3 innings to hold off Orange

Lutheran (3-9).

Gleason, Sabrina Couch and Campbell all went 2 for 3 with Gleason

tallying two RBIs.

Newport faces Costa Mesa for third place in the Costa Mesa Tourney

at Mesa Monday at 3:15 p.m.

*--*

Nonleague

Newport 5, Orange Luth 2

Score by Innings

O. Luth 001 010 0 -- 2 5 0

Newport 003 002 x -- 5 11 4

Gleason, Moore (5), and Campbell;

Davidson, Anderson (3) and Canestrale. W

-- Gleason, 1-0. L -- Anderson. 2B --

Bomgren (OL), Sands (OL), Gleason (N)

*--*

Mustangs fifth

* SOFTBALL: The Costa Mesa High softball team earned fifth place

in the Rialto Tournament after a 4-3 victory over Indio at Rialto

High Saturday.

The Mustangs (6-4) scored all four runs in the fourth inning, when

they collected five of their eight hits. Jade Moss singled to begin

the inning, and Ann Marie Topps tripled to bring Moss home. Topps

later scored on a passed ball. Costa Mesa then pumped out three

singles with two outs. Uyen Mai was the first with the base hit and

she came home on a Paulina Rodriguez base hit. Rodriguez scored after

Jennifer Jordan’s base hit.

Mesa and Indio played six innings and stopped because of the

tournament’s time limit. In the bottom of the sixth, Indio left

runners on first and second. Indio’s No. 3 batter, who had two hits,

grounded out, as Mai fielded the ball and made the fielder’s choice

tag at second base.

Earlier in the day, the Mustangs suffered a 7-2 loss to West

Valley, dropping Mesa into the fifth-place final.

*--*

Rialto Tournament Pool Play

West Valley 7, Costa Mesa 2

Score by Innings

Mesa 000 110 0 -- 2 6 5

W. Valley 301 030 x -- 7 8 1

Butler, Gallardo (3) and Miller; Meza and

Caldevore. W -- Meza. L -- Butler, 4-1. HR

-- Carpenter (WV)

*--*

*--*

Fifth place

Costa Mesa 4, Indio 3

Score by Innings

Mesa 000 400 -- 4 8 3

Indio 100 011 -- 3 7 0

Butler and Miller; Taylor and Silva. W --

Butler, 5-1. L -- Taylor. 3B -- A. Topps

*--*

Anteaters felled, 5-2

* TENNIS: UC Irvine’s men’s tennis team dropped a 5-2 decision

to Texas A&M-Corpus; Christi Saturday in the finals of the Anteater

Classic at Anteater Tennis Stadium.

*--*

Texas A&M; 5, UCI 2

Singles -- Bergues (T) def. Endrikat, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; Figueriredo (T) def. Korac, 6-2, 6-2; Morris (T) def. O”Connor, 6-1, 7-5; Morton (UCI) def. Plasencia, 5-7, 6-7, 6-1; Collins (T) def. Biorkman, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; Surapol (UCI) def. Roman, 6-4, 7-6.

Doubles -- Endrikat-Morton (UCI) def. Figueriredo-Moris, 8-3; Bergues-Roman (T) def. Korac-O’Connor, 9-8; Collins-Oprea (T) def. Prentice-Williams, 8-4

*--*

Lions drop two

* SOFTBALL: The Vanguard University softball team dropped below

.500 in Golden State Athletic Conference play after being swept in a

doubleheader by visiting Azusa Pacific Saturday.

Vanguard, 19-13-1, 7-8 in the GSAC, began the day with a 1-0 loss,

and APU (26-10, 9-7) won the second game, 6-2.

The Cougars scored what proved to be the winning run in the third

inning. The Lions trailed 2-1 after six innings, but APU scored four

runs in the top of the sixth en route to the victory.

Lightning edged

* SOFTBALL: The Sage Hill School softball team finished second

in the Silver Division after a 4-3 loss to Calvary Chapel of Downey

at the Arrowhead Christian Academy Tournament in Redlands.

Jessica Torina, Katrina Redelsheimer, Debbie Yoder-Lee and Ambre

Smith collected two hits each, yet Calvary Chapel edged past the

Lightning (5-4).

Sage Hill began the day with a 6-4 victory over Banning. Torina

led the Lightning with a 2-for-4 performance that included two RBIs.

UCI wins in four

* Jimmy Pelzel pounded a career-high 35 kills to lead UC Irvine

past visiting Cal State Northridge Saturday night, 30-26, 32-30,

27-30, 30-22 in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation men’s volleyball

at Crawford Hall.

UCI improves to 17-8, 10-8 in the MPSF. Northridge goes to 16-10,

11-9.

Pirates win, 14-7

* Orange Coast College’s women’s badminton team was a 14-7

winner at Pasadena City College Friday to improve to 6-2.

Pasadena fell to 6-3.