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When/where: Tonight, 7 at Estancia High Key Eagles: So. TB Robert Murtha (529 yards rushing, six TDs); Sr. LB Eduardo Lopez (49 tackles); Sr. OL/DL Juan Mejia (31 tackles). Key Breakers: Sr. QB Austin Paxson (1,067 passing yards, 11 TDs, six INTs); Sr. WR/DB Chris Paul (564 yards receiving, seven TDs; two INTs); Jr. WR/LB Derek Reigel (260 receiving yards, four TDs; two INTs). Breakdown: The game is the Orange Coast League opener for both the Eagles (1-4)

A group of 90 teen surfers, all diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, will gather from around California hoping to catch a break at Laguna Beach on Saturday morning. The Pediatric-Adolescent Diabetes and Education, or PADRE Foundation is hosting its ninth annual Surfing with Diabetes Camp at Three Arches Bay, which will feature a surf lesson from former professional surfer Scott Dunton, a luau and an evening beach bonfire. "It's not all about diabetes. It's about having fun," said Evan Barker, 15, of Laguna Beach, who has surfed the event since he was 12. "You don't have to feel weird about checking your insulin, you can be yourself and not have to hide.

BOYS' BASKETBALL Estancia 41, Laguna Beach 40 COSTA MESA — Ben Beck scored 14 points to lead the Eagles to a big Orange Coast League win Wednesday. Rashad Davis had 10 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks for Estancia (13-11, 4-3 in league). Robert Sullivan scored to give the Eagles a 41-40 lead with 20 seconds left Laguna Beach (6-1 in league) just missed on its game-winning shot attempt. * Newport Harbor 50, Marina 41 HUNTINGTON BEACH — Chance Beauchamp scored 15 points to help the Sailors win their first Sunset League game of the season Wednesday.

LAGUNA BEACH - While Dan Glenn talked about his 27th year as coach of the Newport Harbor High girls' volleyball team, the opposing coach interrupted him. "I've got to close the gym," Laguna Beach's Lance Stewart said. Glenn just grinned. What else did Stewart need to do? Glenn's Sailors took care of Laguna Beach and its gym on Tuesday. There was no need for someone to sweep the floor because Newport Harbor brought out the brooms in a 25-20, 25-21, 25-22 win. The sweep was the Sailors' second straight after they opened the season last week with a three-set loss at home to Santa Margarita.

CORONA DEL MAR ? Corona del Mar High had revenge on its mind and, Laguna Beach, the top-ranked girls volleyball team in CIF Southern Section Division II-AA, just happened to be on the Sea Kings' court Wednesday night. The two no longer compete against each other for the Pacific Coast League title, with the Breakers moving to the Orange Coast League, but the fierce rivalry still exists. Less than two weeks ago, the Breakers added to the rivalry by ending the Sea Kings' run in the Dave Mohs tournament.

COSTA MESA - To look at it one way, the Costa Mesa High football team was just 14 points from going undefeated in the Orange Coast League this year. The Mustangs lost by just two points to Estancia and two points to Godinez. But the Mustangs will finish fourth in league and more than likely not make the CIF Southern Section Southern Division playoffs. The latest tough loss, which came Thursday night at Jim Scott Stadium, was probably the end of their season. Costa Mesa battled Laguna Beach to the end but came up short on senior night, 35-28, in the league finale for both teams.

A group of 90 teen surfers, all diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, will gather from around California hoping to catch a break at Laguna Beach on Saturday morning. The Pediatric-Adolescent Diabetes and Education, or PADRE Foundation is hosting its ninth annual Surfing with Diabetes Camp at Three Arches Bay, which will feature a surf lesson from former professional surfer Scott Dunton, a luau and an evening beach bonfire. "It's not all about diabetes. It's about having fun," said Evan Barker, 15, of Laguna Beach, who has surfed the event since he was 12. "You don't have to feel weird about checking your insulin, you can be yourself and not have to hide.

This Tuesday, the Costa Mesa City Council will vote on a "traffic mitigation agreement" for the proposed Banning Ranch development. This agreement, negotiated between the developer and Costa Mesa City Hall behind closed doors, would require Costa Mesa to make modifications to streets and intersections in the Westside in order to accommodate the majority of the 15,000 car trips per day expected to be generated by the proposed 1,375-home Banning Ranch...

Coast Highway turned into a running trail for police, lifeguards and firefighters Thursday morning. Public safety personnel from Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, UC Irvine and the city of Irvine passed a torch throughout Orange County as a lead-up to the June 8 and 9 Special Olympics Southern California at Cal State Long Beach. About 20 employees from Laguna's Police, Fire and Marine Safety departments donned T-shirts and running shoes for a 5.5-mile jog that took them from the police station on Forest Avenue north along Coast Highway to Newport Coast Drive, where the torch was passed to Newport Beach police.

Orange County beachgoers can rest easy knowing that the waters off the Southern California coast are - for the most part - pretty clean, and they seem to be getting cleaner, according to environmental group Heal the Bay's 23rd annual Beach Report Card . The report, which assigns letter grades to 445 beaches statewide based on their weekly bacterial levels, found that 93% of the beaches monitored in Orange County received A or B ratings during...

Veteran journalist Alisha Gomez has been named managing editor of Los Angeles Times Community News (TCN) in Orange County, Editor John Canalis announced Wednesday. Gomez will help oversee the staff of 24 that produces the Daily Pilot, Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent, which have a combined print circulation of 137,000. She previously served as managing editor of the Huntington Beach Independent and the Coastline Pilot and, on June 3, will add the Daily Pilot to her duties as part of a planned newsroom reorganization.

BOYS' TRACK & FIELD Sunset League finals HUNTINGTON BEACH - Newport Harbor High's Marty Taylor won the shotput with a personal-best mark of 62 feet, 5 inches, and was also champion in the discus (186-6), Thursday at Huntington Beach High. Taylor led a 1-2-3-4 finish in the shotput. Ramsey Hufford finished second (54-0), freshman Joe Stukonis was third (53-5) and Will Fortier was fourth (52-9). They all qualified for next week's CIF Southern Section Division 2 preliminaries.

OJAI - Corona del Mar High senior Alec Adamson is the last Newport-Mesa athlete still in contention at the prestigious 113th annual Ojai Tennis Tournament. But Adamson still strives for more. He'll be playing at the tournament's showcase venue, Libbey Park, on Saturday. The goal is a title. No. 2-seeded Adamson advanced to the CIF singles division semifinals after a pair of impressive victories Friday. He topped Stefan Doehler of Foothill, 6-1, 6-3, on Friday morning at Libbey Park.

Peruvian food is an interesting and delicious mixture of indigenous cuisine combined with influences from the Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and West Africans who settled there. At the family-run Inka Cantina in Fountain Valley, you will find a menu featuring the operators' own traditional family recipes from the Andes and the northern coast of Peru. As you enter this pleasant little strip-mall restaurant, the owner greets you warmly as if you were family. His daughter was our waitress, and she was new on the job. He joked that we should be kind to her, but no need, she was quite perfect.

Melissa Mead ran in the Boston Marathon for the first time Monday. She will remember it more now because of the two bombings near the finish line at the historic race. Mead was among at least 35 runners from the Newport-Mesa area who ran in the world's oldest and most prestigious footrace. Mead, of Costa Mesa, is a Newport Harbor High School and UC Irvine alumna. The 23-year-old said she finished the race in about 3 hours, 49 minutes, some 20 minutes before an explosion went off near the finish line.

COSTA MESA - Steven Macias lost his glove in the second inning and then command of his pitches. He struggled to recover in time after a comebacker to the mound ripped off his glove. Estancia Coach Nate Goellrich checked on his ace a couple of times during the second inning against Laguna Beach. First, he went out to the mound to see if Macias was OK after the line drive. Richie Nunis hit the ball that hard that Macias couldn't hold onto his glove, let alone the ball. "It kind of rattled him, even he'll admit it," Goellrich said of Macias.