Ocean View

A 17-0 run to start the game helped the Costa Mesa High boys basketball team beat visiting Ocean View, 70-63, in a Golden West League showdown Wednesday night. Ocean View answered the opening surge with 15-4 run of their own, but the Mustangs were able to regroup after the first quarter and answer the seven-time defending league champs bucket for bucket the rest of the game to earn their fourth straight win. Junior Brian Molina scored a career-high 25 points with five three-pointers to lead Mesa (10-7, 4-0 in league)

The Estancia High boys volleyball team swept visiting Ocean View, 25-13, 25-22, 25-19, to clinch sole possession of the Golden West League title. The Eagles (23-6, 12-0 in league) have swept every league opponent they have faced this year. Coach Tracey Ingraham said tough serves and hard hitting were the keys to Estancia's win. Scott Sankey had 12 kills, Kris Hartwell had nine and Josh Kornegay six to lead the Estancia attack. Trevor Holmes finished with 29 assists in the match and Brad Larsen had seven service aces and 11 digs for the Eagles, who will wait for CIF Southern Section playoff pairings to be announced Monday.

SCORE BY QUARTERS Estancia 7 7 7 14 - 35 Ocean View 7 0 0 0 - 7 FIRST QUARTER OV -- Nagel 76 run (Guillen kick), 11:04. Est -- Redding 16 pass from M. Morley (Carrasco kick), 4:00. SECOND QUARTER Est -- T. Morley 10 pass from M. Morley (Carrasco kick), 1:23. THIRD QUARTER Est -- Alejandre 19 run (Carrasco kick)

The Eagles' inability to stop the run and sustain drives proves to be their undoing in a Golden West League setback on the Seahawks' field Friday night.Going into Friday night's game, Coach Brian Barnes felt Ocean View was a team Estancia could compete with and even beat. So after the Eagles' 20-12 loss to the Seahawks -- a game that wasn't as close as the score indicated -- Barnes was disappointed with his team's effort. "Well, I don't know if we came to play football tonight," Barnes said.

The all-new Crystal Cove Promenade opened last Friday. Williams-Sonoma, The Gap, Banana Republic and Starbucks are the first stores to open. Expected to open at the end of the month, are the women's boutiques Novecento and Millie. In November, the following stores will open: Pink Wasabi, Juxtaposition Home, Ancanthus Gallery, Trader Joe's, Cassis and The Yellow Cottage. The beautifully designed mall, inspired by the Santa Barbara mission style of the 1920s, has an amazing ocean view.

Patrick Laverty Costa Mesa National Little League third baseman Alex Grosek caught the popup and headed straight for the dugout. His teammates followed. Ocean View promptly took the field. It wasn't until Costa Mesa catcher Ryan Knapp had already removed his gear and Ocean View pitcher Bo Amaral was into his warm-up pitches that the Ocean View coaching staff realized the out that Grosek recorded was only the second in the top of the sixth inning.

Richard Dunn COSTA MESA - Freshman Humberto Rojas could be a future star for Estancia High, but he'll need some help putting points on the scoreboard if the Eagles are going to crack the win column in a boys track and field dual meet this year. Rojas captured the 800 and 1,600 meters Thursday, and the host Eagles had a chance to win the nonleague meet against Ocean View in the final event, but came up just short in the 1,600 relay. Ocean View, which swept the relays and most of the hurdles, erased a one-point deficit by winning the last event and defeated Estancia, 63-59.

Richard Dunn COSTA MESA - Before they lined up for the final race, Estancia High's Eagles already had it in the bag. Thanks to distance standouts Liz Huipe and Janet Cahuantzi, sprinters Jasmine Geider and Hanni Geider and weight specialist Diana Alderete, the Eagles' girls track and field team secured its second victory in five dual meets before the 1,600-meter relay. Visiting Ocean View won the last event, but Estancia held on for a 62-61 nonleague win Thursday.

For a photo gallery of the game, click here. NEWPORT BEACH — What a doozy of a game to lose a starting quarterback. Estancia High Coach Mike Bargas was forced to use third-string quarterback Radames Gutierriez in Thursday night’s 27-26 loss to Ocean View (4-1) after starter Mike Morley was injured in the first quarter. Morley, who usually only plays on offense, started at cornerback after starter Alek Kirshner, who is also the backup quarterback, stretched his anterior cruciate ligament.

HUNTINGTON BEACH - Football coaches have long harped on the importance of the holy trinity of offense, defense and special teams. Costa Mesa High Coach Wally Grant liked what he saw from two out of three Friday, which proved to be just enough for the Mustangs to claim a seesaw, 34-31, nonleague win at Ocean View. The Mustangs (3-1 for the first time since 2001) made four of their five conversion kicks, while Ocean View scored only once on the untimed down that followed its five touchdowns.

The celebration for the Ocean View Little League All-Stars continues. The Little League World Series champions are set to visit the California state legislature, where they will be honored and given a Senate Resolution on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday. State senator Tom Harmon and other legislators will present the team and coaches with a Senate Resolution congratulating them on their achievement. The team will be recognized at the start of the senate session scheduled to begin at noon.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The friendship started in San Bernardino. The Big Sky Little League team from Billings, Mont. won the Northwest title at the Western Regional tournament and stayed in the same dorms as Huntington Beach's Ocean View Little League team, which ended up winning the West title at the same place. Because the Ocean View team had been able to drive to San Bernardino, they were able to pack up a television and an XBox. Because kids are kids, both teams played video games and ping pong together and generally hung out. In the meantime, both teams became great friends.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The only two United States unbeaten teams at the Little League Baseball World Series — Ocean View Little League from Huntington Beach, champions of the West, and Big Sky Little League from Billings, Mont., representing the Northwest — will play at 5 p.m. PDT Wednesday at Lamade Stadium. The game will be televised by ESPN and will feature two teams that are not only 2-0, but good friends, as well. Both the West and Northwest regionals were at the Little League complex in San Bernardino, and Ocean View and Billings traveled together to the east, flying on the same plane into Newark, N.J. and busing about four hours to Williamsport.

Reporting from South Williamsport, Pa. — The assessment was simple. "They're going to be tough to beat. " That's what Brad Bates, manager of the North Oldham Little League team from La Grange, Ky., said Sunday after his Great Lakes region championship team was beaten 10-0 by the Ocean View Little League team at the Little League World Series. Ocean View has won its first two games by a combined score of 21-0. It has 23 hits in the two games and allowed five hits. It hasn't committed an error.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Braydon Salzman's baseball cap can take a line drive off the bill. And Salzman's confidence wasn't knocked off-kilter either in the third inning when a whizzing hit made him momentarily woozy but left him with the determination to keep on playing. Salzman was the winning pitcher and also went three-for-three from the plate as the Ocean View Little League team from Huntington Beach, the West champions, blasted Cumberland, R.I., winners from New England, 11-0 Friday in the Little League World Series at Lamade Stadium.

FOUNTAIN VALLEY— Huntington Valley Little League 10- and-11-year-old All-Stars pitcher Jared Henry quietly kept pace with Costa Mesa National counterpart Brian Rodriguez. Henry finished his complete game with a roar Tuesday, in a 3-1 Huntington Valley win at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley. He helped Huntington Valley, the defending champion, advance to the District 62 All-Star tournament championship series against Ocean View. Game time is 6 p.m. Wednesday at Field No. 12 at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley.

FOUNTAIN VALLEY — If, as some say, the breaks of baseball eventually even out, the Costa Mesa National Little League 10- and 11-year-old All-Stars were due a game like Wednesday. After having had their way with their first two opponents in the District 62 Tournament at Mile Square Park, Costa Mesa had only a 7-3 winner's bracket semifinal loss to show for outhitting Ocean View, 11-8. Ocean View also had two errors, one more than Mesa. But Manager Bee Jay Mazur's Costa Mesa squad, which had outscored foes, 35-7, in its two previous tournament victories, saw its pitchers walk four, hit two more and produce three wild pitches.