Long Beach

Irvine developer Western National Realty Advisors bought a 206-unit apartment complex in Long Beach for $46 million. Western National bought the property at 1613 Ximeno Ave. from Archstone, a Colorado apartment developer and operator. The new owners named the complex built in the 1980s the Landing at Long Beach. Western National plans to update the 145,000-square-foot garden-style complex, said Jerry LaPointe, vice president of Western National Realty Advisors, an affiliate of apartment investor Western National Group.

A Costa Mesa man killed in a motorcycle accident in Long Beach has been identified, according to police. Thomas Hand, 26, died Sunday after his motorcycle hit a Toyota Yaris at Seventh Street and Redondo Avenue about 5:12 p.m., according to the Long Beach Police Department. An officer in the area reported that Hand was traveling at a high speed when he made a sudden lane change to enter the intersection on a red light. At the same time, a 42-year-old Long Beach woman was in the process of turning onto Redondo, and their vehicles collided.

LONG BEACH - The Newport Aquatic Center made the most of its inaugural Newport Spring Regatta Sunday and won six races at Marine Stadium in Long Beach. The NAC also claimed seven victories in the Long Beach Invitational Saturday. In the Newport Spring Regatta, Coach Rachel Rose's two varsity men's squad both emerged victorious. Brandon Dillman, Peter Sims, Nolan Rousset and Greg Everett won in 4:29.8, while Blake Lyon, Greg Schneider, Matt Siemonsma and Curtis Cook won their race in 4:38.

LONG BEACH - The Newport Beach Aquatics Club traveled to Long Beach State for their annual Holiday Classic swim meet last weekend and some local swimmers fared well. On the girls side, Laura Thomas placed in all six events, while Tivoli Hudson, Allison Lobel and Katie Petersen also brought home top-six finishes. On the boys side, Toury Adamowicz placed second in the 200-yard freestyle. The team practices five days a week at 4 p.m. at Corona del Mar High and the Newport Beach Aquatics Club is open to all swimmers ages 17 and younger.

LONG BEACH - The Orange Coast College football team is enjoying a recent warming trend … the kind that has nothing to do with the thermometer. For while rising temperatures shifted the Pirates' kickoff time five hours later to 6 p.m. Saturday, it's a hot streak that continued against host Long Beach that has OCC Coach Mike Taylor wiping his brow with satisfaction. Orange Coast controlled the Vikings effectively in a 34-12 victory that marked its first two-game win streak since a 4-0 start in 2009.

COSTA MESA - The shorthanded Orange Coast College men's volleyball team pushed defending state champion Long Beach City College to the limit on Friday night before the Vikings found the upper hand down the stretch for a five-set win inside OCC's Peterson Gym. Greg Utupo had 19 kills and Austin Arcala added 10 kills to lead the undefeated Vikings past the Pirates, 25-16, 28-30, 21-25, 25-21, 15-10 in a nonconference matchup. The Pirates (2-2), playing without the services of two starters - Austin Bagby and Cody Martin - overcame a sluggish start and gave the Vikings (4-0)

LONG BEACH - Five match points saved, and the home crowd at Long Beach City College got very concerned. The Orange Coast College men's volleyball team came so close to forcing a deciding fifth set Saturday night in the California Community College Athletic Assn. men's volleyball state championship match. A 24-19 fourth-set deficit suddenly became 24-24, and the Pirates were pumped. Long Beach, the No. 1-ranked team in the state poll all season, did not panic. An OCC shot wide gave the Vikings their sixth match point, and they capitalized.

Police on Wednesday identified the man who was stabbed to death in Costa Mesa as Robert Jay Liken, 43, of Long Beach. Costa Mesa police believe Adolph Mireles, 38, of Huntington Beach stabbed Liken about 6 a.m. Tuesday in the 1100 block of Atlanta Way after the two fought over a relationship they had with the same woman. Liken was at the home visiting the woman, according to police. Neighbors said a husband, wife and their two sons live at the house where Liken was killed, and that the family, after facing some financial difficulty, rented out a room to a large tattooed man and his girlfriend.

A Costa Mesa man allegedly killed and dismembered an Orange Coast College student who lived in his apartment complex and then killed another student, throwing authorities off his tracks by trying to make the first victim look like a suspect, police said Friday. Daniel Wozniak, 26, is charged with two counts of murder with sentencing enhancements for doing it for financial gain. The events were described as a bloody scheme to cover up a trail in which he allegedly killed Samuel Herr, 26, and his friend Juri “Julie” Kibuishi, 23, who also attended the college.

LONG BEACH - UC Irvine sophomore pitcher Andrew Thurman needed only six days to work out the kink. The Anteaters' right-hander polished off a no-hitter in a 4-0 Big West Conference baseball victory over Long Beach State on Friday in front of 1,266 at Blair Field. Just six days before, his no-hit bid against Cal State Fullerton ended with a bounding infield single behind the mound. Friday, Thurman hit the leadoff batter, then retired 23 straight, before issuing his only walk with two outs in the eighth.

Chloe Kellum of Long Beach Poly High has signed a national letter of intent to play women's basketball at UC Irvine, Anteaters women's basketball coach Doug Oliver recently announced. Kellum, a 6-0 forward for the Jackrabbits, was a member of the Moore League championship and the California state championship for Division 1 AA teams as a senior. Kellum helped the Jackrabbits to a record of 29-5. Kellum also played for the Cal Storm Team Taurasi club. "Chloe has tremendous potential and a great work ethic," Oliver said in a release.

Two straight bogeys was a less-than-an-ideal start for Chase Wheatley on a hot Monday in Long Beach. The Corona del Mar High senior was trying to extend his final season with the Sea Kings, playing in the CIF Southern Section Individual Regional. After the consecutive bogeys it could have been expected that Wheatley's season was about to end. But Wheatley wasn't about to go out like that. The heat pounded at him, but he continued to be a grinder and battled. Later in the round, he endured three straight bogeys.

MEN'S VOLLEYBALL Long Beach State def. UC Irvine PROVO, Utah - The No. 2-seeded Anteaters erased a 14-10 fifth-game deficit, but eventually fell to the No. 3-seeded 49ers, 25-22, 22-25, 20-25, 25-15, 22-20, in the semifinals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament at BYU on Thursday. The loss drops the No. 3-ranked Anteaters to 23-7 and puts the defending NCAA champions in peril of missing a berth to the four-team NCAA Championship next week at UCLA. UCI will need to earn an at-large berth into the NCAA Championship, which would require top-seeded BYU to win the MPSF Tournament and the conference's automatic berth.

ANAHEIM - Undoubtedly this season, Coach Russell Turner has wondered where his UC Irvine men's basketball team would be without a senior nucleus that has been so vital in so many ways. For most of the No. 4-seeded Anteaters' seesaw struggle with top-seeded Long Beach State in the semifinals of the Big West Conference Tournament on Friday at Honda Center, Turner was faced with that very proposition. With less than seven minutes to play and trailing the 49ers, 49-43, UCI senior guards Daman Starring and Mike Wilder were a combined two for 17 from the field.

A major dredging project in Newport Harbor wrapped up this week, leaving the lower bay cleaner and more navigable than it's been in decades, officials said. Now, the harbor is 10 to 16 feet deep in most spots. "First of all, I think it means we've greatly improved safety and navigation," Newport Beach Mayor Keith Curry said when asked about the roughly $7-million undertaking's close. "It substantially reduced the risk of [boats] running aground in low tide, and made the harbor cleaner and safer, because we were able to remove a lot of toxic material.

COSTA MESA - Just six games into the 2013 season, one performance or one game can still greatly alter the statistics of an entire roster. But the Orange Coast College baseball team will hope that an atypical outing in Saturday's 12-8 nonconference loss to Long Beach City College in the Pirates' home opener, won't carve into the collective psyche of a squad ranked No. 3 in the Southern California preseason poll. OCC (4-2) had fashioned a 1.67 earned-run average and allowed eight runs total in its first five games.

COSTA MESA - The shorthanded Orange Coast College men's volleyball team pushed defending state champion Long Beach City College to the limit on Friday night before the Vikings found the upper hand down the stretch for a five-set win inside OCC's Peterson Gym. Greg Utupo had 19 kills and Austin Arcala added 10 kills to lead the undefeated Vikings past the Pirates, 25-16, 28-30, 21-25, 25-21, 15-10 in a nonconference matchup. The Pirates (2-2), playing without the services of two starters - Austin Bagby and Cody Martin - overcame a sluggish start and gave the Vikings (4-0)

IRVINE - UC Irvine's run to the 2012 NCAA men's volleyball championship was a tribute to shape shifting. With seemingly interchangeable parts, the Anteaters drew upon their bench at a moment's notice, no matter the stakes. While that trend continues this season, in which a congested January schedule has created opportunities through injuries and lulls in performance, it appears that the most valuable addition to the No. 3-ranked Anteaters' lineup just might be adrenaline. With a majority of the 1,701 in attendance at the Bren Events Center on Friday fueling the hosts' competitive juices, the result was a pressure-packed 23-25, 25-19, 20-25, 25-16, 15-13 victory over Long Beach State in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match that was anyone's for the taking.

LONG BEACH - Big West Conference men's basketball coaches universally released a sigh of relief earlier this month when it was announced that San Diego State would not be joining the conference after all, choosing instead to remain in the Mountain West. But when it comes to the mountaintop of Big West regular-season domination, Long Beach State remains a formidable and perennial front-runner to plant the flag. Coach Dan Monson's first-place 49ers (11-8, 7-1 in conference) added UC Irvine Coach Russell Turner to their list of admirers Saturday after they secured an 81-59 triumph that was still in doubt midway through the second half.

Irvine developer Western National Realty Advisors bought a 206-unit apartment complex in Long Beach for $46 million. Western National bought the property at 1613 Ximeno Ave. from Archstone, a Colorado apartment developer and operator. The new owners named the complex built in the 1980s the Landing at Long Beach. Western National plans to update the 145,000-square-foot garden-style complex, said Jerry LaPointe, vice president of Western National Realty Advisors, an affiliate of apartment investor Western National Group.