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The Corona del Mar High boys' tennis team has earned the No. 2 seed for the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs, for which brackets were released Monday. Estancia and Newport Harbor were the other local teams to earn spots in the postseason. The Sea Kings, who finished second in the Pacific Coast League to top-seeded and three-time defending CIF champion University, will play host to Brentwood in the Division 1 first round at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Brentwood is the second-place team out of the Alpha League.

Riley Peterson scores, surfs and soars. Not in that particular order, but on any given day, he can do all three. Peterson is on the lacrosse and surf teams at Newport Harbor High. When he's not on the field with a stick or in the ocean on a short board, the senior is in the air on a plane. The single-engine Piper aircraft isn't his. It belongs to his grandfather, Burt Christiansen, who lives in Utah. Peterson comes from a family of pilots. His other grandpa, Don Peterson, used to fly, and his father, Ty Peterson, is a licensed pilot..

Music, food and bunny rabbits welcomed hundreds of area residents to the opening of Newport Beach's new Civic Center on Saturday. As the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band played "Stars and Stripes Forever" before Saturday's ceremony, many families checked out city hall's new home, some venturing out to the circle of bunny statues on the campus periphery and others peering over the viewing platform at the end of the San Miguel bridge on the breezy morning....

A pair of Newport Harbor High products will be key players for USC, which will compete in the second American Volleyball Coaches Assn. Collegiate Sand Volleyball National Championship tournament Friday through Sunday in Gulf Shores, Ala. Former Sailors indoor standout Kirby Burnham teams with Stevi Robinson to form USC's No. 1 pair, while 2012 Newport Harbor graduate Cinnamon Sary joins Katie Fuller on the school's No. 2 team. The event will include team and individual pairs competition.

CORONA DEL MAR - The setter feeding the biggest player on the court the ball dealt with a couple of cuts, one on his leg and another on his arm. The one on the arm, near the elbow, wouldn't stop bleeding. The referees charged Newport Harbor High a second timeout because Steven Duhoux's cut wasn't fully covered after the initial timeout. It was late in the decisive fifth set of the Battle of the Bay boys' volleyball match at Corona del Mar and the Sailors needed a better Band Aid. Somehow the Sailors figured a way to tape up the cut. Duhoux returned, all bandaged up. Keep in mind that he had to switch jerseys because his No. 15 had blood on it. The number that wasn't going to change was the number of the player Duhoux kept calling on Friday night.

Evan Beamer, co-director of "In Security," had a brush with danger Friday. The Los Angeles resident almost backed into a Camaro after receiving a text telling him that his first feature film had been honored as an Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking at the Newport Beach Film Festival. "This is such a cool thing for our first tiny little movie that no one had ever seen before," said Beamer, who directed the film with his brother, Adam. "We are so grateful to the Newport Beach Film Festival.

Members of the local business community who turned out for the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce's monthly government affairs breakfast unwittingly took part in a little experiment. Midway through his talk Thursday about public safety in the city, Newport Police Chief Jay Johnson got the results on a pale yellow sticky note: Of 60 cars in the parking lot, 36 had valuables - essentially crime bait, he said - sitting in plain view. Among those items were 12 purses, six briefcases, one wallet, two laptops and five iPads.

Four players with local ties, including three from Orange Coast College, have been named first-team All-Orange Empire Conference by the conference's baseball coaches. Freshman pitcher David Wilson, as well as sophomore first baseman Danny Jiminez and sophomore outfielder Zach Nehrir represent OCC on the first team, while Cypress College sophomore designated hitter Blake Davey, a Newport Harbor High product, is also a first-team honoree. OCC sophomore pitcher Kyle Dowdy made the second team.

The votes are in for the winners of the 14th annual Newport Beach Film Festival. The eight-day festival concluded Thursday with a closing night spotlight of "The Way, Way Back. " The sold-out screening was hosted at the Regency Lido Theatre, with an after-party in the Via Lido courtyard. According to organizers, this year's selection committee reviewed 2,700 films from around the globe, and then showcased 380 films, representing 50 countries. * JURY AWARDS Best Feature Film: "Fly Me To The Moon" Best Actor: Sam Rockwell, "A Single Shot" Best Actress: Diane Kruger, "Fly Me To The Moon" Best Director: Pascal Chaumeil, "Fly Me To The Moon" Best Cinematographer: Mihai Malaimaire, Jr., "The Time Being" Best Screenplay: Laurent Zeitoun and Youann Gromb, "Fly Me To The Moon" Best Feature Documentary Film: "Terms and Conditions May Apply" Best Short Documentary Film: "Open Heart" Best Short Animated Film: "Flamingo Pride" Best Narrative Short Film: "Emily" * 2013 AUDIENCE AWARDS: Audience Award Winner Feature (U.S.)

A mechanical shriek followed a low rumble as the Boeing 737 came closer, a looming albatross partially obscured by a thin, misty cloud. Within moments, it had passed and was soaring over the gunmetal waters of the Upper Newport Bay and toward the ocean. Then, the jet did something it wasn't supposed to do: It flew straight ahead. "He didn't turn," observed Ken Shapero, a GE Aviation Systems official, peering skyward. The plane, striped in Southwest Airlines' distinctive yellow and red, should have curved left to stay roughly over the bay to comply with a flight pattern aimed at protecting residents from noise.