San Marino

SAN MARINO - Corona del Mar High's doubles teams of Leslie Damion-Brittany Holland and Kristen Griffith-Katie Tenerelli swept their sets to lead the girls tennis team to a 14-4 victory over host San Marino in the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division IV playoffs Tuesday. The Sea Kings (23-2) will play at West Hills-based Chaminade Thursday at 2 p.m in the semifinals. "I was impressed with the doubles," CdM Coach Andy Stewart said. "If we play like that, we're going to be tough to beat."

Nichole Maddox joked that she didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she took over the Costa Mesa High softball team. Maddox held the title of girls’ basketball coach in the winter. After a successful first season in which the Mustangs reached the playoffs, it was time to go outdoors and lead a new team. Maddox coached two sports before, never believing it would happen again. Maddox is happy she’s busy again. Costa Mesa is the lone Newport-Mesa softball program in the playoffs.

CORONA DEL MAR — Catcher Katrina Gaar best explained how tough Corona del Mar High ace Michelle Tolfa threw Thursday. "She was pitching strike, strike, strike, strike, strike, strike," Gaar said, trying to match the number of strikeouts Tolfa recorded. Gaar was five short as Tolfa struck out 11 and allowed two hits and no earned runs in the Sea Kings' 5-1 nonleague win against visiting San Marino. The Princeton-bound senior attacked a depleted lineup to give Corona del Mar (1-1)

SAN MARINO - A team is more than just a collection of individuals. The Newport Harbor High girls' tennis team has spent the whole season proving it. On this team, senior captain Blake Bakkila picked up the team's other singles players on Halloween night and took them to dinner and a movie for a "singles night out. " On this team, one of those other two singles players, sophomore Natalie Cernius, gave up her spot in the CIF Individuals tournament...

CLAREMONT — Coach Kristen Case said this special season for the Newport Harbor High girls' tennis team has been more about the journey than the destination. Monday's match at the final destination, The Claremont Club, didn't go the way the top-seeded Sailors wanted. They fell to unseeded San Marino, 11-7, in the CIF Southern Section Division II championship match. The tears in the eyes of the players at the end were strictly because that journey was over. "I feel like we've all grown such strong bonds," said senior Lauren Conway, one of three senior starters along with the doubles team of Riley Mathies and Alex Aiello.

-- CIF Division III-A First round San Marino 42, CdM 35 San Marino 18 5 13 6 -- 42 CdM 13 6 9 7 -- 35 San Marino -- Alvarado 3, M. Cheung 24, Skorpil 0, Ho 4, Loh 6, K. Cheung 3, Benito 2, Ortiz 0, Chu 0, Goh 0, Chou 0. 3-pt. Goals -- M. Cheung 5, Benito 1, Loh 1. Fouled out -- none. Technicals -- none. Corona del Mar -- McCoy 12, Otterbein 8, Snell 0, Klein 11, Heeschen 0, C. Marks 4, Dimas 0, Stern 0. 3-pt. Goals -- Klein 1. Fouled out -- none.

SOFTBALL San Marino 1, Costa Mesa 0 SAN MARINO — Costa Mesa High senior pitcher Kira Mitani allowed no runs through nine innings, but an unearned run in the 10th inning allowed the host Titans to advance in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division V playoffs Thursday. Junior Sami Feinstein went two for four and Mitani had the Mustangs’ other hit and also reached on a walk against freshman standout Michelle Floyd. Floyd struck out 26 and now has 276 strikeouts in 139 innings.

Judy Wells Stafford passed away November 26 at her home in Palm Desert, Calif. A native of Long Beach, Calif., Judy was raised in Billings, Mont., and later Boise, Idaho where she graduated from Borah High School in 1960.  She then moved with her family to San Marino, Calif.,  where she attended Pasadena City College and graduated from San Diego State University. In 1967 she married Donald Solsby with whom she had two sons.  Prior to the birth of her children she was a teacher in Los Angeles-area public schools.  The couple lived in San Marino until 1979 when they moved to Newport Beach.

Judy Wells Stafford passed away November 26 at her home in Palm Desert, Calif. A native of Long Beach, Calif., Judy was raised in Billings, Mont., and later Boise, Idaho where she graduated from Borah High School in 1960.  She then moved with her family to San Marino, Calif.,  where she attended Pasadena City College and graduated from San Diego State University. In 1967 she married Donald Solsby with whom she had two sons.  Prior to the birth of her children she was a teacher in Los Angeles-area public schools.  The couple lived in San Marino until 1979 when they moved to Newport Beach.

SAN MARINO - A team is more than just a collection of individuals. The Newport Harbor High girls' tennis team has spent the whole season proving it. On this team, senior captain Blake Bakkila picked up the team's other singles players on Halloween night and took them to dinner and a movie for a "singles night out. " On this team, one of those other two singles players, sophomore Natalie Cernius, gave up her spot in the CIF Individuals tournament...

CLAREMONT — Coach Kristen Case said this special season for the Newport Harbor High girls' tennis team has been more about the journey than the destination. Monday's match at the final destination, The Claremont Club, didn't go the way the top-seeded Sailors wanted. They fell to unseeded San Marino, 11-7, in the CIF Southern Section Division II championship match. The tears in the eyes of the players at the end were strictly because that journey was over. "I feel like we've all grown such strong bonds," said senior Lauren Conway, one of three senior starters along with the doubles team of Riley Mathies and Alex Aiello.

San Marino 1, Costa Mesa 0 SAN MARINO — Costa Mesa High senior pitcher Kira Mitani allowed no runs through nine innings, but an unearned run in the 10th inning allowed the host Titans to advance in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division V playoffs Thursday. Junior Sami Feinstein went two for four and Mitani had the Mustangs' other hit and also reached on a walk against freshman standout Michelle Floyd. Floyd struck out 26 and now has 276 strikeouts in 139 innings.

Nichole Maddox joked that she didn't know what she was getting herself into when she took over the Costa Mesa High softball team. Maddox held the title of girls' basketball coach in the winter. After a successful first season in which the Mustangs reached the playoffs, it was time to go outdoors and lead a new team. Maddox coached two sports before, never believing it would happen again. Maddox is happy she's busy again. Costa Mesa is the lone Newport-Mesa softball program in the playoffs.

On a recent Sunday evening in Newport Beach, the Marriott Hotel in Fashion Island welcomed several hundred of the most prominent executives in Southern California. You might say it was a power confab with a holiday theme, and more importantly, a message of lofty purpose. It was the 27th annual Business in the Arts awards ceremony and dinner, presided over by the dedicated Betty Moss Betty Moss , founding executive director of the Orange County Business Committee for the Arts. They arrived in business attire — what else would you expect?

Tucked away in the San Gabriel Mountains, not far from downtown Los Angeles, is the Eaton Canyon, known for its steep gorges and portions of the San Gabriel River. Known by Spanish settlers as “El Precipicio,” Eaton Canyon is now named for Judge Benjamin Eaton, who built the first Fair Oaks Ranch House in 1865. The area has an extensive history, including the San Gabriel Mission, founded in 1771, and the site was also used for secret laboratories and experimental stations in the early 1940s to develop and manufacture rockets for World War II. The first nature center at Eaton Canyon was built in 1963, and volunteers were trained to take people on tours in 1978.

Amber Neben, a UC Irvine graduate, has been added to the U.S. Olympic cycling team and will compete at the Beijing Games next month. Neben, ranked in the top 10 in the world, will be making her Olympic debut. The 34-year-old recently finished second at the Giro d’ Italia, considered one of the top international races for women. Neben will compete in the mass start road race alongside Christine Thorburn and Kristin Armstrong. Neben is one of the most decorated American cyclists on the international circuit.