Redlands East Valley

NEWPORT BEACH - Newport Harbor High's top-ranked girls volleyball team swept aside Marina and Thousand Oaks in pool play of the Dave Mohs Memorial Volleyball Tournament Friday, posting 15-6, 15-3, and 15-4, 15-4 conquests, respectively, and will host Redlands East Valley today at 8 a.m. Tournament play continues today at Edison High in Huntington Beach with a match at noon, followed by play at approximately 1:30 and...

NEWPORT BEACH - Carmen and Diana Khoury swept in doubles play to lead the Newport Harbor High girls tennis team to a 14-4 win over visiting Redlands East Valley, Wednesday, in nonleague action. Also sweeping in doubles was the No. 2 team of Erika Buder and Krista McIntosh. Both teams lost only four games in their three sets. Newport, ranked No. 2 in CIF Southern Section Division III, will resume Sea View League competition with a home matchup against Aliso Viejo today at 3:15.

REDLANDS — In less than two hours Corona del Mar High arrived to a dim gymnasium. Players saw their own shadows on the volleyball court. The Sea Kings looked like they were in the dark once play began Tuesday night. Playing Redlands East Valley for the second time in 11 days can have that effect. The Wildcats quickly sent the Sea Kings home, advancing to the CIF State Division II championship with a 25-17, 25-15, 25-13 victory in the Southern California Regional final.

CORONA DEL MAR — In the last couple of seasons, Corona del Mar High hasn’t figured a way to beat Redlands East Valley in the playoffs. First, it was the girls’ volleyball team losing to the Wildcats in CIF Southern Section and Southern California Regional title matches in back-to-back seasons. Now, the girls’ soccer team fell to Redlands East Valley. This time, two rounds before the actual championship. The Wildcats held on for a 1-0 victory at CdM in the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division II playoffs Friday afternoon.

For a long time, Corona del Mar High girls’ soccer coach Bryan Middleton thought today’s match against Redlands East Valley would be for revenge. He had been extra excited to take on REV in the CIF Southern Section Division II quarterfinal, that will be at CdM at 3 p.m. He thought the Wildcats had knocked the Sea Kings out of the playoffs last year, but it was actually Redlands High. “I thought last year, that we played Redlands East Valley because I kept hearing about them play against our girls’ volleyball team,” Middlelton said of the Wildcats, who beat CdM in the CIF section and state regional final matches the past two years in girls’ volleyball.

CYPRESS — A two-game deficit didn’t seem so much like an incredible challenge to overcome for the Corona del Mar High girls’ volleyball team just this past Tuesday. But this was Saturday at Cypress College against top-seeded Redlands East Valley. This time the hole proved too deep to climb out of, as the Wildcats captured its second straight CIF Southern Section Division II-AA title with a 25-16, 25-20, 25-14 victory. The Sea Kings (21-8) appeared as if they could make a match of it, late in the second game.

IRVINE — After falling behind two games to one, the Corona del Mar High girls’ volleyball team huddled under the double doors in the Beckman gym Tuesday night. The “Exit” sign was in green letters over the doors, and the Sea Kings were on the verge of doing just that. But they weren’t ready to go home just yet. Instead, they’re going to Cypress College for the CIF Southern Section Division II-AA championship match. CdM rallied in the last two games to top the Pacific Coast League foe Patriots, 24-26, 25-20, 25-27, 25-20, 15-9, in a semifinal in front of a raucous crowd.

CORONA DEL MAR — Darryl Gan has battled the flu since Monday. Yet, the first-year coach was the first person to rise from his seat when someone noticed tape coming undone on the Corona del Mar High volleyball court Saturday night. The tape covered up an uneven spot on the side of La Reina of Thousands Oaks in Game 1. Gan concealed it, laying out strips of white tape and evening it out with his foot. Things were still not even on the court. The Sea Kings swept the Regents in the second round of the CIF State Division II tournament, 25-22, 25-18, 25-22, advancing to the Southern California Regional final.

CORONA DEL MAR — With a stingy defense and an early lead, the Corona del Mar High girls’ soccer team found itself in a comfortable and advantageous position to return to the CIF Southern Section Division II quarterfinals. And the Sea Kings inevitably did just that, as the Kaylee O’Connor-led defense did enough for Maddie O’Connor’s early tally to hold up for a 1-0 second-round victory over fourth-seeded Crescenta Valley on Wednesday afternoon at Corona del Mar High.

Morgan Boukather walked off the volleyball court with her Corona del Mar High teammates the same way she had the previous two years. The season ended with another tough loss to Redlands East Valley. The past two times the Wildcats bounced the Sea Kings out of the CIF State Division II Regional playoffs. It ended much earlier this time around for the Sea Kings, falling in the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Division I-A playoffs. The prior two setbacks against the Wildcats, Boukather always had next year to get revenge.

REDLANDS — Corona del Mar High and Redlands East Valley usually meet for all the marbles on the court. They have played for a CIF Southern Section girls' volleyball championship the previous two seasons. This time, the programs faced each other in a Division I-A semifinal match on Tuesday. Different round, yet same outcome. The Sea Kings cannot seem to beat the Wildcats in the postseason. They avoided a sweep on the road, but seconded-seeded Redlands East Valley won, 25-20, 25-21, 26-28, 25-21, making it five straight playoff victories against third-seeded CdM. Redlands East Valley (29-4)

CORONA DEL MAR — The Corona del Mar High girls' volleyball team has put itself in the best position it can to knock off Redlands East Valley. Now, the Sea Kings just hope the fifth time is the charm. Corona del Mar will face Redlands East Valley for the fifth time in the last three postseasons after sweeping off Rancho Cucamonga Los Osos, 25-11, 25-19, 25-23, in a CIF Southern Section Division I-A quarterfinal match Saturday night at CdM. No. 2-seeded Redlands East Valley, which swept Murrieta Valley in another quarterfinal match, will play host to CdM in a semifinal match Tuesday.

CORONA DEL MAR — In the last couple of seasons, Corona del Mar High hasn’t figured a way to beat Redlands East Valley in the playoffs. First, it was the girls’ volleyball team losing to the Wildcats in CIF Southern Section and Southern California Regional title matches in back-to-back seasons. Now, the girls’ soccer team fell to Redlands East Valley. This time, two rounds before the actual championship. The Wildcats held on for a 1-0 victory at CdM in the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division II playoffs Friday afternoon.

For a long time, Corona del Mar High girls’ soccer coach Bryan Middleton thought today’s match against Redlands East Valley would be for revenge. He had been extra excited to take on REV in the CIF Southern Section Division II quarterfinal, that will be at CdM at 3 p.m. He thought the Wildcats had knocked the Sea Kings out of the playoffs last year, but it was actually Redlands High. “I thought last year, that we played Redlands East Valley because I kept hearing about them play against our girls’ volleyball team,” Middlelton said of the Wildcats, who beat CdM in the CIF section and state regional final matches the past two years in girls’ volleyball.

CORONA DEL MAR — With a stingy defense and an early lead, the Corona del Mar High girls’ soccer team found itself in a comfortable and advantageous position to return to the CIF Southern Section Division II quarterfinals. And the Sea Kings inevitably did just that, as the Kaylee O’Connor-led defense did enough for Maddie O’Connor’s early tally to hold up for a 1-0 second-round victory over fourth-seeded Crescenta Valley on Wednesday afternoon at Corona del Mar High.

REDLANDS — The black T-shirts commemorating the Redlands East Valley High girls’ volleyball team’s “3-PEAT” CIF Southern Section titles, are barely 10 days old and still have their out-of-the-box creases. But they may already be outdated when it comes to playing Corona del Mar. With a 25-19, 25-21, 25-22 victory over the visiting Sea Kings in the Southern California Regional final of the CIF State Division II playoffs Tuesday, the Wildcats have now beaten their familiar Orange County rivals four times in section or regional title matches within the last 12 months.

The electronic scoreboard at Redlands East Valley High will only display part of the score visiting Corona del Mar is trying to settle in the Southern California Regional Division II final of the CIF State girls’ volleyball playoffs. For this match, which begins at 7 p.m., is yet another rematch in a recent string of meetings between the two Southern Section powers, the latest being a four-game win for REV in the Southern Section Division II-AA final Nov. 21. The top-seeded Wildcats (36-3)

WILDOMAR — Just like the rib cage of junior opposite Morgan Boukather, everything was in its proper place for the Corona del Mar High girls’ volleyball team Saturday night. Boukather said she played with two ribs “knocked out of place” Tuesday in the Sea Kings’ CIF State Division II first-round playoff win. But thanks to a visit to the chiropractor, some physical therapy and a pre-match tape job, Boukather, just like the entire CdM offense, was in perfect alignment in a three-game thumping of host Elsinore High.