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FIRST QUARTER BP – Flores 49 pass from Brazil (kick blocked), 0:15. SECOND QUARTER Est – Gutierrez 27 run (Diego kick), 6:52. THIRD QUARTER Est – Mendez 26 run (Diego kick), 1:05. FOURTH QUARTER Est – Gutierrez 8 run (Diego kick), 7:37.   INDIVIDUAL RUSHING BP – Flores, 32-164; Brazil, 3-14; Faauli, 2-8; Davis, 1-2; Martinez, 2-minus-6. Est – Mendez, 21-130, 1 TD; Gutierrez, 3-41, 2 TDs; Kirshner, 1-3; De La Torre, 1-1; Carlyle, 1-0. INDIVIDUAL PASSING BP – Brazil, 7-11-1, 104, 1 TD; Martinez, 2-4-0, 19. Est – Gutierrez, 1-10-1, 6; Kirshner, 1-4-0, 9. INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING BP – Flores, 1-49, 1 TD; Verdugo, 5-48; Davis, 2-16; Sandoval, 1-10.

SCORE BY QUARTERS       Buena Park 2 20 0 7 - 28 Estancia 0 0 0 7 - 7 FIRST QUARTER BP -- Safety: Quarterback tackled in end zone, 4:05. SECOND QUARTER BP -- Blackburn 2 run (Perez kick)

Joseph Boo ANAHEIM - Watching Costa Mesa Coach Bob Serven yell at his team going against Buena Park in the Canyon Classic on Wednesday, you would think his team was losing. Instead, the Mustangs led for almost the entire game to win, 61-60. The victory came despite a sluggish Costa Mesa performance and an offensive rebounding clinic from Buena Park. "Well, it's better to win these games than to lose," Serven said. The Mustangs will face Canyon in the fifth-place game today, at 1:30 p.m. Costa Mesa (11-4)

Police arrested a man and woman at a Buena Park gas station following a daylight robbery Thursday afternoon at a bank in Costa Mesa. According to Sgt. Ron Chamberlin of the Costa Mesa Police Department, a man entered First Bank at 3001 Harbor Blvd. at 3:25 p.m. Thursday and handed a teller a note demanding cash. The robber, who apparently did not use a weapon, fled the bank with a large amount of money. Chamberlin would not say how much was taken. At 5:30 p.m., Buena Park police arrested Roger Dale Kenney, 51, of Anaheim without incident at a gas station in Buena Park.

Police arrested a man and woman at a Buena Park gas station following a daylight robbery Thursday afternoon at a bank in Costa Mesa. A robber entered First Bank at 3001 Harbor Blvd. at about 3:25 p.m. Thursday and handed a teller a note demanding cash, according to Costa Mesa Sgt. Ron Chamberlin. The robber, who apparently did not use a weapon, fled the bank with a large amount of money. At about 5:30 p.m., Buena Park police arrested Roger Dale Kenney, 51, of Anaheim without incident at a gas station in Buena Park, authorities said.

COSTA MESA — Nothing seemed to be working through the air. Passes were too short, too long, or just dropped by the Estancia High football team during Friday night’s nonleague game against Buena Park. No problem for the Eagles. Senior quarterback Radames Gutierrez took matters into his own hands. Gutierrez scored a pair of rushing touchdowns, helping Estancia come from behind for a 21-6 victory. “They were more physical than us the first half, then we got the run going there,” Coach Mike Bargas said.

Estancia High football coach Brian Barnes has watched his Eagles outscore their first two opponents, Mark Keppel and Bolsa Grande, a combined 100-7. But he knows there are still doubters. Barnes believes his team, ranked No. 9 in the CIF Southern Section Southwest Division, will gain more respect with a win against Buena Park (0-1) tonight at 7 at Newport Harbor High. "Even though it's only Week Three for us, it's a defining game in our season," Barnes said. "A lot of people aren't sure the Eagles are very good.

NEWPORT BEACH — The Estancia High football team has experienced this empty feeling before, just not this season. What was supposed to be a defining, breakout game for the Eagles, turned into a 29-7 nonleague loss to visiting Buena Park on Friday at Newport Harbor High. Estancia (2-1) had outscored its previous two opponents — Mark Keppel and Bolsa Grande — by a combined 100-7. Buena Park entered with a six-game losing streak dating back to last season.

When/where: Tonight, 7, at Estancia High Key Coyotes: Senior running back/cornerback Cain Flores (six touchdowns in two games, including four rushing, one receiving and one on an interception return); senior quarterback Dylan Brazil (two touchdown passes in season-opening victory over Bassett). Key Eagles: Senior running back Carlos Mendez (40 carries for 342 yards and two TDs); senior receiver/cornerback Jason Moreno (six catches for 145 yards and three TDs); senior tight end/punter Eli Diego (four receptions for 30 yards and one TD; 43.9 yards per punt)

A Newport Beach-based real estate investment trust recently purchased Gordon Square, a 100,500-square-foot neighborhood shopping center in Buena Park. Donahue Schriber, which owns and operates a number of similar shopping centers, bought the property for $11.8 million March 31. Plans for the retail space include extensive renovation, as well as a 27,000-square-foot addition. So far, the shopping center's retail lineup includes PetsMart, Blockbuster Video, El Pollo Loco and Kragen Auto Parts.

BUENA PARK - As it will nearly all season, the Newport Harbor High boys' basketball team towered over its opponent Friday night. But while the presence of 7-foot senior Kevin Rakestraw continues to elevate the Sailors' game, their 70-50 triumph over host Buena Park in the semifinals of the Coyote Classic, showed they also have a level of competence well below the rim. The Sailors not only stayed with the frenetic pace prompted by the smaller, feisty...

BOYS' BASKETBALL Costa Mesa 63, St. Monica 54 LONG BEACH - Senior Nick Dawson had 16 points and five assists for the Mustangs in a pool-play game of the St. Anthony tournament Tuesday. Sophomore Sean Comer had 11 points for Costa Mesa (3-2), which plays against Chadwick in pool play Wednesday at 4:30. * Fairmont Prep 74, Sage Hill 42 NEWPORT COAST - Sophomore guard Jack Williamson scored 15 points for the Lightning in their second game of Ueberroth Hoops Classic Tuesday.

BOYS' BASKETBALL Newport Harbor 62, Bellflower 57 (OT) BUENA PARK - Chance Beauchamp scored 25 points for the Sailors in a semifinal of the Buena Park tournament Friday. Newport Harbor (3-0) plays against Tesoro for the championship Saturday at 6 p.m. * Estancia 62, Fullerton 55 SANTA ANA - Senior forward Lucas Pereira scored 18 points to lead the Eagles in a consolation game of the Godinez Tournament Friday. Senior center Rashad Davis had 15 points and 14 rebounds for Estancia (3-1)

The Corona del Mar High football team enters the 50th Battle of the Bay with a lot of momentum. The Sea Kings improved to 3-0 after coming from behind for the second straight week, beating visiting Western, 22-21, Thursday. Next for CdM, ranked No. 2 in the CIF Southern Section Southern Division, is the biggest game in town against Back Bay rival Newport Harbor (0-2) on Friday at Orange Coast College. The teams are heading in different directions, but the Sailors have won the last four Battle of the Bay meetings.

BUENA PARK - Estancia High junior kicker Dan Cabrera had never made a field goal in a varsity football game. Late in Friday night's contest the Eagles needed Cabrera, who kicked on junior varsity last year. He said he was confident he could come through. In Cabrera's head, the 36-yard field goal has never in question. Cabrera transferred his thoughts to the field. He easily nailed the field goal with 55 seconds left in the fourth quarter, lifting Estancia to a 17-14 victory at Buena Park.

BUENA PARK - Driving the ball down the field was not a problem Friday night for the Costa Mesa High football team. The Mustangs repeatedly did it in the first half in their season opener. If it wasn't senior running back Mario Smith moving the chains, it was senior quarterback Nathan Alvis finding his favorite targets, Jordan Walden and Trace Curet. The drives stalled, though, and host Buena Park pulled away for a 34-13 nonleague victory. Costa Mesa still has not won a season opener since 2001.

This election's got me all "whoppygoggled!" My mother hails from southeastern Kansas, a couple of miles north of the Oklahoma border. Her mother was from Missouri and her father was from Arkansas — states near my mom's Montgomery County, Kan., birthplace. Kansas was never part of Dixie, but accents in southeastern Kansas — at least for people who were born there in the early decades of the 20th century — can be as twangy as any you'll encounter in the Deep South.

In some cases, it's a good thing when the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease. Take Saturday, for example, when a Newport Beach man realized someone was stealing his bag full of hockey equipment because he heard the bag's distinct noise as they rolled it to a waiting car. It was almost 2 in the afternoon when a homeowner in the 300 block of Onyx Avenue on Balboa Island was watering his plants. From the alley, he heard what sounded like his duffel bag full of hockey equipment getting wheeled away.

High School Football When/where: Tonight, 7 at La Palma Park Key Mustangs: Sr. RB-DE Tyler Sheffner (10 carries, 42 rushing yards, two overall touchdowns); Sr. OT-DT Andrew Albers; Jr. QB Nathan Alvis (19 for 38 passing, 266 yards, two touchdowns); Jr. WR Trace Curet (five receptions, 78 yards). Breakdown: The Mustangs (0-2) rallied to get a chance at victory last week against Santiago after a lopsided loss to Buena Park in the opener … Katella (1-0) is coming off a 55-20 win over Sunny Hills in which it rolled up 427 rushing yards … Costa Mesa has struggled to get its ground game going, but Alvis has proved to be a dangerous weapon and continues to mature in his first season as the starter … Mesa got a big lift against Santiago with the return of Sheffner, who provides punch as a ballcarrier and is also a threat catching passes … A loss would mark the sixth time in the last seven seasons that Costa Mesa began the season 0-3. — Barry Faulkner

COSTA MESA — The Estancia High football team would surely have preferred victory formation. But the Eagles didn't leave the field following a 21-13 nonleague home loss to Buena Park Thursday night without one of their own successfully executing the act of taking a knee. Estancia assistant coach Chris Bargas, the younger brother of Eagles' head man Mike Bargas, used an electronic scoreboard message to ask Mandy Carsten to marry him after the Eagles came up short on the field for the first time in two games.