Notre Dame

BELMONT - The Vanguard University softball team won its 13th straight game Tuesday following a doubleheader sweep over host College of Notre Dame, 5-3, and 10-2. Cheri Smith went the distance in the opener, allowing only four hits and three runs. Andrea Saucedo's two-run triple help spark the Lions' four-run fifth inning. Vanguard (16-4) took advantage of six Argonauts errors and cruised to the win. Saucedo went 3 for 4 with three runs scored while Jill Ramsey and Rachael Rolle each added two hits and two runs scored.

Barry Faulkner COSTA MESA - It took just three days to emilinate 20 of the 28 schools which qualified for the CIF Southern Section Division III-AA boys basketball playoffs. Among the elite eight are third-seeded Corona del Mar (21-6) and Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (22-6), who square off tonight at 7:30 in a quarterfinal at Estancia High. They were expected to be here, from the start. The team there at the finish tonight will need to play one of its better games, according to CdM Coach Paul Orris.

Corona del Mar High senior attacker Ryan Mix was named the Pacific Coast League MVP after helping the boys' lacrosse team defend its league title and reach the U.S. Lacrosse Orange County Southern Section Division I championship game. Mix highlights one of eight players earning first-team laurels from the Sea Kings (18-3), which finished ranked No. 8 in the state by LaxPower.com. Mix, who's headed to the University of Notre Dame, led CdM with 80 goals and he added 22 assists.

COSTA MESA — Coach Jeff Brinkley said Friday night’s scrimmage against Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks gave his Newport Harbor High football team a chance to get up to speed. The Sailors saw plenty of speed from Notre Dame, which scored on two 70-yard touchdown passes at Estancia High. But Brinkley’s team recovered and scored five touchdowns of its own against the Knights, who found the end zone three times. “Overall, we did a good job,” Brinkley said.

SHERMAN OAKS — Why stop at round one? Having made the CIF football playoffs after missing them last year, the Newport Harbor High Sailors didn’t see fit to just lie down and take a first-round loss. Instead, they extended their season with a gasp-inducing 7-3 win over Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks Friday night in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Pac-5 Division playoffs. It was the Tars’ first postseason victory since winning the Division VI championship in 2005.

Richard Dunn When former Estancia High and Notre Dame football standout Vince Klees was informed of a newspaper reporter's desire to interview him for the Daily Pilot Sports Hall of Fame, he first had a simple request. "Will you please explain to my daughter what this phone call is about?" Klees said, before handing the phone to his youngest of three daughters, 15-year-old Gretchen, while his plea was granted. In these pages, of course, his name brings back tremendous memories of Estancia football and wrestling in the early 1970s, and, despite what the four women in his Geneva, Ill., household might think, Klees will always be considered one of the all-time great centers in Newport-Mesa School District football history.

ROGER CARLSON They had run up and down the field on the Coliseum turf from the start, relentless. Yet all they had for their deeds was the wrong end of a 17-0 halftime score as undefeated and No. 1-ranked Notre Dame humbled the Trojans in the early going before 83,840 that November afternoon in 1964. Thirty minutes remained on the clock before the Irish could claim their first perfect regular season since 1949 and claim the undisputed honor as the nation's No. 1-ranked team in college football.

UC Irvine sophomore outside hitter Kari Pestolesi was named all-tournament at the Golden Dome Invitational completed Sunday at Notre Dame. In three matches, losses to Notre Dame and Liberty and a win over Central Michigan, Pestolesi collected 35 kills, 40 digs and three blocks. She had two double-doubles in the tournament. On the season, Pestolesi, the Big West Conference Freshman of the Year last season, leads UCI (5-8) with 142 kills, a 3.46 per-set average. She also tops the team with 13 service aces and is second with 122 digs.

The day started off bad for Corona del Mar High's softball team, as the temperature reached 98 degrees and the CIF Southern Section Division IV wild-card game was delayed 20 minutes because the umpires were late arriving to the field. Things went from bad to worse as Notre Dame of Riverside scored four runs in the first inning and went on to defeat the Sea Kings, 10-1, Wednesday at Notre Dame. The Titans (18-8) led off the bottom of the first, scoring four runs on three errors.

Barry Faulkner COSTA MESA - The Corona del Mar High boys basketball team rode its thoroughbred in the fourth quarter, but it was a plow horse which got the Sea Kings to the stretch. CdM senior Joel Templeton, a 6-foot-7 center, scored 12 of his career-high 17 points in the first half and also turned visiting Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks away repeatedly at the defensive end. But, even with Templeton's talents, which included eight rebounds and three blocked shots, CdM was down, 49-43, with 6:59 remaining in Tuesday's CIF Southern Section Division III-AA quarterfinal at Estancia High.

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — Vanguard University seized a 1-0 lead, but No. 2-ranked Notre Dame College of Ohio rallied for a 2-1 victory in the round of 16 at the NAIA Tournament Monday at the Orange Beach Sportsplex. Junior Billy Pellow put the No. 11-ranked Lions (14-8) on the board when he headed in a corner kick from junior Jack Plummer in the 34th minute. But Notre Dame (21-0) knotted things 35 seconds into the second half and got the game-winner in the 83rd minute to advance and eliminate Vanguard, which finished 1-1 in its first NAIA Tournament appearance.

Newport Harbor vs. Alemany When/where: Tonight, 7:30 at Alemany High of Mission Hills Key Sailors: Jr. RB Buzzy Yokoyama (143 carries for 1,097 yards and 11 TDs); Sr. QB Austin Rios (913 yards and seven TDs); Sr. Parker Norton (53 catches for 485 yards and five TDs) Key Warriors: Sr. QB Vernon Davis; Jr. DB Deron Smith, Sr. K Martin Meza Breakdown: Newport Harbor (6-4) is making its second straight CIF Southern Section Pac-5 Division first-round playoff appearance … The Sailors face fourth-seeded Alemany (10-0)

Born Aug., 2, 1920, in Los Angeles and died July 30, 2010, three days short of her 90th birthday, at her home in Corona del Mar. Kathleen Shanahan Turgeon was the youngest of five children of Dr. Edmond Shanahan, a native of Ireland, and Agnes Cavanaugh, whose parents also came from Ireland. After graduation from Hollywood High School in 1938, she attended Rosary/Dominican College in River Forest, Ill., where her aunt was a member of the faculty and the order. From there, she went to her father’s alma mater, Creighton University Medical School, where she was one of two women in her class.

Corona del Mar High senior attacker Ryan Mix was named the Pacific Coast League MVP after helping the boys' lacrosse team defend its league title and reach the U.S. Lacrosse Orange County Southern Section Division I championship game. Mix highlights one of eight players earning first-team laurels from the Sea Kings (18-3), which finished ranked No. 8 in the state by LaxPower.com. Mix, who's headed to the University of Notre Dame, led CdM with 80 goals and he added 22 assists.

Newport Harbor High lost its football scrimmage on Sept. 4 to Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, ranked No. 31 in the country in the ESPN RISE preseason poll. Coach Jeff Brinkley found out about it on the Internet. Notre Dame opted to play Klein Oak of Spring, Texas on Sept. 7 at the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The game is part of the Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Football Series, which features four games pitting some of the nation’s top high school teams against each other on Labor Day. “When we saw that they were playing a game on Monday, we go, ‘There’s no way in hell these guys are scrimmaging us on Friday,’ ” Brinkley said of the Knights.

LOCAL WINS SILVER Courtney Conlogue, who will be a senior at Sage Hill School in the fall, took second place in the open women’s division at the 2009 National Scholastic Surfing Assn. National Championships Saturday at Lower Tressles in San Clemente. Conlogue scored 14.75 points, finishing behind Lakey Peterson, who had 16.75. WHITESIDE RANKED HIGH Cecil Whiteside, who will be a senior linebacker for Newport Harbor High in the fall, is 31st on the top 100 in California football’s Class of 2010 list by Scout.

A number of Roman Catholics are objecting to President Obama?s planned speech to Notre Dame graduates this month. The main issues are the president?s stance on abortion and stem-cell research. What do you think of the issue? ? A Catholic university should be honoring those who practice Catholic values. President Obama does not value the right to life for the unborn, has ordered the funding of embryonic stem cell research, and is considering lifting a conscience-protection law for healthcare workers who could be forced to perform procedures contrary to their religious beliefs.

UC Irvine sophomore outside hitter Kari Pestolesi was named all-tournament at the Golden Dome Invitational completed Sunday at Notre Dame. In three matches, losses to Notre Dame and Liberty and a win over Central Michigan, Pestolesi collected 35 kills, 40 digs and three blocks. She had two double-doubles in the tournament. On the season, Pestolesi, the Big West Conference Freshman of the Year last season, leads UCI (5-8) with 142 kills, a 3.46 per-set average. She also tops the team with 13 service aces and is second with 122 digs.

COSTA MESA — Coach Jeff Brinkley said Friday night’s scrimmage against Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks gave his Newport Harbor High football team a chance to get up to speed. The Sailors saw plenty of speed from Notre Dame, which scored on two 70-yard touchdown passes at Estancia High. But Brinkley’s team recovered and scored five touchdowns of its own against the Knights, who found the end zone three times. “Overall, we did a good job,” Brinkley said.