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BASEBALL Orange Coast 8, College of the Canyons 3 COSTA MESA - Sophomore Ricky Navarro finished three for five with three runs batted in the Pirates' nonconference game on Tuesday. Danny Jimenez went three for five with one RBI for OCC (5-2). * WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Vanguard 86, Concordia 55 Nicole Ballestero scored 24 points and Chelsea Alfafara added 22 points for the Lions in the Golden State Athletic Conference game Tuesday. Esther Timmermans had 18 points and nine rebounds for Vanguard (18-2, 9-2 in conference)

COSTA MESA — The Orange Coast College women's basketball team has had its fill of College of Canyons. A 79-65 loss to the Cougars in the semifinal of the Coast Christmas Classic on Tuesday was the second time this year the Cougars have defeated the Pirates. Freshman Courtney Ford scored a game-high 28 points on 11-for-20 shooting for the Pirates. The Pirates will play Southwestern in the third-place game at 4 p.m. today at Orange Coast. The fact Orange Coast went from losing by six to the Cougars Nov. 11 at the Mount San Antonio College Tournament to the 14-point margin Tuesday was not the type of change Pirates Coach Mike Thornton said he had in mind.

COSTA MESA — Statistically speaking, it was College of the Canyons that was supposed to bring the clubs to the Orange Coast baseball diamond for a best-of-three Southern California Regional playoff series that began Friday. But, when the clouts had cleared after the Pirates' 11-7 series-clinching victory in Game 2 Saturday, it was Orange Coast that supplied more prodigious power. OCC (26-19), which had only 19 home runs in 43 regular-season games, hit four in the two-game sweep of the Cougars, including three Saturday.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL College of the Canyons def. Orange Coast COSTA MESA — College of the Canyons ended OCC’s state championship run, as the visiting Cougars swept past the Pirates, 30-21, 31-29, 30-23 in the first round of the Southern California Regional Playoffs on Tuesday. Eighth-seeded OCC (15-7), which was the two-time defending state champion, was led by sophomore outside hitter Jacqi Reed (13 kills, 10 digs, two solo blocks)

Here are some items the council will consider tonight: STREAMING VIDEO CONTRACT Residents in Newport Beach and the rest of the world will be able to see City Council meetings anywhere, anytime, if the council approves a $42,367 contract with Granicus Inc. to provide streaming video of council meetings on the Internet. The city would also need to buy $7,000 worth of electronic hardware to start the program, and ongoing maintenance costs would be $1,400 a month.

MEN'S BASKETBALL UC Irvine 94, Cal State Northridge 85 (OT) IRVINE — Anteaters junior Adam Folker had seven of his career-high 28 points in overtime to propel the hosts in the Big West Conference game Saturday. UCI outscored the Matadors, 11-2, in overtime to improve to 11-17, 6-8 in conference. Sophomore Chris McNealy had a career-high 21 points, before fouling out with 2:17 left in regulation, and freshman Will Davis had a school-record eight blocked shots for UCI, which played its final home game of the season.

TODAY Baseball College -- Community college -- College of the Canyons at Orange Coast, Southern California Regionals, 2:30 p.m. Golf UC Irvine at NCAA Regionals (the Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club, St. George, Utah) College women -- Swimming Corona del Mar, Newport Harbor at CIF Southern Section Division I finals at Belmont Plaza, 6 p.m. High school boys and girls -- Track and field UC Irvine at Big West Championships (Cal State Northridge)

COSTA MESA — The baseball term is fighting it off. It typically refers to a hitter managing to make contact, usually poor contact, with a pitch that is inside or a pitch on which the hitter is fooled. For Orange Coast College, the term also became a metaphor for its 6-5 come-from-behind victory over visiting College of the Canyons in the opener of a best-of-three Southern California Regional playoff series Friday. The Pirates (25-19) fought off a strong pitching performance by Canyons sophomore lefty starter Mike Robbins.

COSTA MESA - Sometimes, the one thing you haven't tried, the one thing that is least likely to work, can be the magic bullet. The Orange Coast College women's basketball team came up one shot shy of completing a second-half comeback that was as unlikely as it was astounding Saturday night. But in the end, Coach Mike Thornton and his Pirates were left wondering if a 66-65 loss to College of the Canyons in the semifinals of the Erin Tomlinson Coast Christmas Classic at OCC may at least serve as a reset button on a mediocre season to this point.

Orange County will not seek repayment of the $160,000 spent rescuing two Costa Mesa hikers who went missing Easter weekend in Trabuco Canyon, officials said Wednesday. Supervisor Shawn Nelson said the county does not have the legal authority to seek reimbursement. "We don't have a basis to go after them today - we didn't a month ago," he said. Rescue workers from Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside counties spent five days searching for Nicolas Cendoya, 19, and Kyndall Jack, 18. The pair went missing March 31 in Trabuco.

TRABUCO CANYON - A Costa Mesa teen found Thursday after spending four nights missing in Trabuco Canyon was in good condition without any major internal injuries, a hospital spokesman said. Kyndall Jack, 18, arrived about 12:21 p.m. hypothermic, confused and with signs of dehydration, said John Murray, UC Irvine Medical Center's spokesman. She was given fluids and underwent diagnostic procedures for internal injuries. As of 9 p.m., Murray said she didn't have any major internal injuries but there weren't plans to discharge her Thursday night.

Just off Trabuco Canyon Road near the fire station, the wood-porched Trabuco Canyon General Store is an old-fashioned place that sells, among other things, chicken feed. And it smells like it.  There, longtime canyon denizens followed the search for two Costa Mesa hikers who had been missing since Sunday from a tiny TV mounted from the ceiling.  Russ Thompson, 75, sat perched in a busted, old chair tucked among snacks and supplies.  He said his guesses about the fate of Kyndall Jack, 18, and Nicolas Cendoya, 19, were "totally wrong.

TRABUCO CANYON - About 20 searchers were set to be deployed overnight Tuesday to continue looking for two missing hikers from Costa Mesa, after hundreds of friends and family had shown up throughout the day to help. Rescue workers from various agencies will return to Trabuco Canyon in full force Wednesday morning, said Orange County Sheriff's Department Lt. Erin Giudice. Kyndall Jack, 18, and Nicholas Cendoya, 19, called authorities about 8:25 p.m. Sunday, saying they were lost but thought they were about a mile away from their car, according to the Sheriff's Department.

Will Big Canyon Country Club continue its grand success at the Jones Cup, or will host Santa Ana grab its elusive first title this year? Those are some of the questions to be answered as the 14th Jones Cup comes to Santa Ana Country Club June 26. The date was announced Tuesday. The Jones Cup, which will start at noon, features the head professional, assistant pro, men's champion, women's champion and senior men's champion of each of the local country clubs Big Canyon, Santa Ana, Mesa Verde and Newport Beach, and Shady Canyon Golf Club.

COSTA MESA — Three Southern Californians advanced to the quarterfinals of the Costa Mesa Pro Classic Thursday, and none of them had an easy ride. Poway's Bradley Klahn, the third seed, won the first set in a tie breaker, 7-6 (2) and the second set, 6-4, dispatching Mitchell Krueger. Trabuco Canyon's Nicholas Meister, after winning a tough three-set match on Wednesday, did the same on Thursday, beating India's top player, Sanam Singh, the seventh seed, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. And Torrance's Jason Jung needed a tiebreaking win in the second set to defeat Chili's Juan Carlos Sanez, 6-3, 7-6 (2)

COSTA MESA - The Costa Mesa Pro Classic is providing its own version of March Madness at Costa Mesa Tennis Center. Through two rounds, only five of the top eight seeds remain in singles competition, and only one of the four top-seeded doubles pairs is alive. In singles play, third-seeded Bradley Klahn of Poway moved on, as did fourth, fifth and seventh seeds Matt Reid of Australia, Hans Podlipnik-Castillo of Chili, and Sanam Singh of India. Dropping out were sixth-seeded Daniel Kosakowski of Downey, who was beaten by Torrance's Jason Jung, and eighth-seeded Joshua Milton upended by America's Dennis Nevolo.

BASEBALL Orange Coast 8, College of the Canyons 3 COSTA MESA - Sophomore Ricky Navarro finished three for five with three runs batted in the Pirates' nonconference game on Tuesday. Danny Jimenez went three for five with one RBI for OCC (5-2). * WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Vanguard 86, Concordia 55 Nicole Ballestero scored 24 points and Chelsea Alfafara added 22 points for the Lions in the Golden State Athletic Conference game Tuesday. Esther Timmermans had 18 points and nine rebounds for Vanguard (18-2, 9-2 in conference)

The Harbaugh brothers and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis are popular stories leading up to Super Bowl XLVII. The stories are hardly important to Greg and Rebecca Beckler of Orange County. Their attention is on Raelyn Beckler, their toddler daughter who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia a year ago. However, the Big Game remains relevant in their lives. That's because friends and family are ready to support Raelyn with a Super Bowl party on Sunday. Mike Mackellar, one of the Beckler's friends, has offered his Shady Canyon home in Irvine as the site of party central for the NFL championship game that features the San Francisco 49ers against the Baltimore Ravens.

COSTA MESA - The Orange Coast College women's basketball team couldn't overcome a poor shooting performance as the Pirates lost to College of the Canyons, 57-53, in the championship game of the 2012 Erin Tomlinson Coast Christmas Classic on Sunday. The Pirates (5-5) attempted 71 shots in the game, converting just 17. OCC also struggled from behind the line, making just two three-pointers on 18 attempts. The only place the Pirates did shoot well was the free-throw line where they hit 17 of 23 attempts from the charity stripe.