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LOS ANGELES - The UCLA men's tennis head coach watched the start of Friday's CIF Southern Section Division 1 second-round match, and it had nothing to do with recruiting. Billy Martin has his Bruins top-seeded in the NCAA Tournament. But he took time out Friday to watch his son, Travis, a senior doubles player for Los Angeles Loyola. "He's such a talented leader and athlete," Loyola Coach Brian Held said of Travis Martin, his team's only senior starter. "He also plays hockey.

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.

ALISO VIEJO - The song "Encore" by Jay-Z played during the last timeout in the fourth quarter. It wasn't easy. But on Saturday night at Aliso Niguel, the Corona del Mar High boys' lacrosse team got a step closer to quite an encore indeed. The top-seeded Sea Kings pulled away in the fourth quarter to defeat No. 4 JSerra, 8-5, in a U.S. Lacrosse Southern Section South Division semifinal match. They're now one match away from defending their title. CdM will play No. 3-seeded St. Margaret's in the Orange County title match on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Mission Viejo High.

Corona del Mar High senior linebacker James Christian's high school football career ended after he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in the second game of the season, but his playing days don't appear to be over. Christian has been asked to be a walk-on player at UCLA, CdM Coach Scott Meyer said Wednesday. Christian injured his left knee on the third defensive play of the game against Western. Meyer had big plans for Christian, a 6-foot-3, 190-pounder who was playing football for the first time since he was a freshman.

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.

For the second straight week, the Corona del Mar High and Newport Harbor sailing teams qualified for national competition. CdM finished second at the Pacific Coast Championships Team Race regatta at Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego Sunday. Newport Harbor was third. Both qualified to compete for the Baker Trophy May 24-26 at Davis Island Yacht Club in Tampa, Fla. There they will compete in the Interscholastic Sailing Assn. Team Racing Championship. CdM finished behind Point Loma, as the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Assn.

CORONA DEL MAR - The Corona del Mar High girls' lacrosse program will miss the class of 2013. Coach Aly Vislocky has been coaching the senior class for more than six years now. She has seen the players put in the work. But that work ended suddenly Tuesday afternoon at CdM. The Sea Kings' season did the same, as they fell to Trabuco Hills in overtime, 15-14, in a U.S. Lacrosse Southern Section South Division first-round playoff match. No. 8-seeded CdM (13-8) lost a late lead in regulation against No. 9 Trabuco Hills (12-5-2)

Lane No. 2 is where Matt Hurst began the 400-meter dash last week at the Orange County Championships. The lane isn't one most sprinters prefer. They like to be in the middle, lanes four through six, where they don't have to deal with the curve at top speed. But lane No. 2 is where Hurst likes to be, inside, where he can see all the runners and catch them from behind. Hurst started in lane No. 2, but he finished the race No. 1. His winning time - 49.20 seconds - almost became the top mark in CdM's history.

NEWPORT BEACH - The Battle of the Bay swim meet always seems to come down to the meet-ending 400-yard freestyle relay on the girls' side. In 2011, Newport Harbor won it to forge a tie. Last year, CdM won the race to edge out a victory. In a way, it again came down to the last race Thursday at Newport Harbor High. The Sailors girls needed to finish first and second in that relay to win the meet. CdM Coach Doug Volding knew that wasn't about to happen. Instead, the opposite was true.