Woodbridge

University High School scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to defeat Woodbridge, 17-3, before 2,400 Friday night at Irvine Stadium. University took a 10-3 lead when quarterback Brian Vale connected with Victor Davis on a 40-yard touchdown pass with 7:59 left to play. It appeared that Woodbridge (1-2) would tie the score when the Warriors moved to the University 10-yard line.

Bob and Mike Bryan, the identical twins from Camarillo, won their 11th major tennis title Saturday, defeating eighth-seeded Robert Lindstedt of Sweden and Horia Tecau of Romania, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (2), in the Wimbledon men's doubles final. It was the second Wimbledon championship for the twins, who tied Australians Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde with 11 titles at Grand Slam-level events. "This is as special as it gets," Mike Bryan said. "To equal the Woodies, a team that we idolized, the greatest team in our mind, is unbelievable.

Irvine High School will meet Woodbridge for the championship of the Irvine Baseball Assn. tournament today at UC Irvine. The Vaqueros, which lead the three-team, double-elimination tournament, 2-0, will play Woodbridge at 4:30 p.m. If Irvine wins, it will be champion. If Woodbridge wins, the two teams play again at 8 p.m. for the title. Friday, Irvine defeated University, 8-2, with Kevin Obergfell picking up the win and Scott Vollmer helping with two RBIs.

Thursday at Dodger Stadium Division 3 Irvine Beckman (24-6) vs. Irvine Woodbridge (19-11), 4:30 p.m. Scouting report: Beckman defeated Woodbridge three times during Pacific Coast League play, but the Patriots haven't seen left-hander Ben Wylly, who was injured for two months but came back and threw a shutout against Rialto in the playoffs. Beckman will counter with ace James Kaprielian. Beckman has a formidable batting order and is coming off an 8-2 win over top-seeded La Verne Bonita.

Sophomore Shane Harris scored one touchdown and rushed for 154 yards in 18 carries to lead Woodbridge to a 31-7 nonleague victory over University Friday night at Irvine High. Harris scored on an 82-yard run with 49 seconds left in the first half to put Woodbridge ahead to stay, 10-7. The Warriors (2-0-1) scored 21 unanswered points in the second half to break the game open and take an 8-7 lead in the series with University.

1998 RECORD: 13-0-1 overall, 4-0-1 in league COACH: Rick Gibson (60-46-7 at school) RETURNING STARTERS: 3 on offense, 4 on defense TOP RETURNERS Dave Delany, WR/CB, 5-10, 175, Sr.; Dave Grijalva, TE/OLB, 6-1, 190, Sr.; Shane Harris, FS/RB, 5-10, 190, Sr.; Doug Nienhuis, OL, 6-6, 260, Sr.; Justin Valentine, FB/LB, 5-10, 205, Sr. TOP NEWCOMERS Brad Arave, CB, 5-7, 160, Sr.; Will Banks, LB, 5-9, 190, So.; Jared Barnes, FB/LB, 5-10, 180, Jr.; Grant Hustedt, DE, 6-2, 215, So.

Senior fullback Jeremy Mushinski scored three touchdowns to lead Saugus to a 27-0 victory over Woodbridge Thursday night at Irvine High. Mushinski rushed for 126 yards in 22 carries for Saugus (2-3). Woodbridge (0-4-1) was shut out for the fourth time this season. Junior quarterback Brian Millat, who sat out the first four games with a stress fracture in his right foot, made his first start of the season for the Warriors. Millat struggled, completing five of 23 passes for 46 yards.

After a two-year stretch near the bottom of the Sea View League boys' basketball standings, once-mighty Woodbridge made a bold statement Friday night with an impressive 65-51 victory over visiting Newport Harbor. "I think we're back," Warrior Coach John Halagan said. "I think it's official."

Both were looking for the same pitch and when they got it, Lisa Weaver and Jessica Montgomery didn't waste the opportunity. Weaver, a freshman designated hitter, and Montgomery, a junior first baseman, knocked in the tying and winning runs for Woodbridge to give the Warriors a 2-1 victory in eight innings over Saugus in the Southern Section 3-A softball championship game Saturday at Mayfair Park.

At the time, the trade hardly seemed fair. Irvine Woodbridge High School's Adam Keefe, an All-Southern Section center, for Richard Reyna, a Banning reserve forward. Both were ejected from the 2-A championship game Saturday at the Sports Arena, won by Woodbridge, 68-60, in overtime. Reyna was ousted for clothes-lining and slamming Keefe to the floor as he tried a dunk midway through the fourth quarter. It touched off a brawl that was broken up by coaches, security personnel and police.

Mark Woodforde isn't stalking Bob and Mike Bryan. It just seems that way. Woodforde is modest and his face reddens a little as he speaks of his record-setting doubles play, of the 61 titles he and his fellow Australian Todd Woodbridge won during 10 years of playing together until they retired in 2000. Woodforde is in L.A. to do some work for the Tennis Channel but mostly to be around if the Bryan twins from Camarillo win the doubles title Sunday at the Farmers Classic tournament at the Los Angeles Tennis Center.

Bob and Mike Bryan, the music-making, arm-punching, chest-bumping doubles team from Camarillo, won their 61st career doubles title Sunday in Madrid, beating Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic, 6-3, 6-4. With the victory, the 31-year-old Bryans are tied with Australians Paul Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde for the most career doubles titles. "It's something we've been kind of focusing on for the last couple of years," Mike Bryan said from Spain on Sunday night. "As we were getting close to the record, it was kind of a nervous feeling.

Irvine police late Friday were at the scene of suspected hostage situation involving an armed man who stormed into a home in the Woodbridge neighborhood. At least three people were being held in the home near Rainstar and Blue Lake North, said Lt. John Hare of the Irvine Police Department. He said the suspect had "some sort of firearm" and was "an associate of the family." The incident began about 9 p.m., Hare said.

Sophomore Kauren Tarver of Phelan Serrano, who won the state Division II cross-country title as a freshman last year, outsprinted Manhattan Beach Mira Costa freshman Kevyn Murphy to win the girls' sweepstakes race Saturday night at the Irvine Woodbridge Invitational. Tarver finished the three-mile course in 16 minutes 37 seconds, two seconds ahead of Murphy, who was competing in her second high school race.

There's a sense of wonder when Alex Parsons thinks about it. And then he laughs. Imagine, an under-the-radar linebacker from an unheralded high school team who has been offered a scholarship to play on the defensive line for the No. 1 college football program in the country. Blessed with the things that can't be coached -- size, speed, strength -- Parsons was selected most valuable player at the USC lineman camp.

When Michael McClune won two matches in short order to win the Southern Section boys' singles championship, it made for a fitting end to a season full of success for the Irvine Woodbridge sophomore. "I really did everything I wanted to do," McClune said. "It was definitely a great year. I'm playing really well, and I just have a lot of confidence right now."

The mist at Irvine High School was so thick Friday night that if you were in the Woodbridge stands you could hear, but barely see, the Chaminade fans across the field. And if you were Woodbridge quarterback Fred Schweer, back to pass from the 32-yard line, the end zone was merely a distant blur. But with 50 seconds left in the game, with Woodbridge down by four points, Schweer threw the ball toward the general direction of the one-yard line.

In an event steeped in tradition and history, Michael McClune of Irvine Woodbridge has just started his legacy. The top-seeded sophomore, ranked No. 2 nationally in the U.S. Tennis Assn. boys' 16-and-under division, came from behind to defeat second-seeded senior Blake Muller of Santa Barbara, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-2, becoming the first player from his school to win the boys' CIF Interscholastic division championship during the 105th Ojai Valley tennis tournament on Saturday at Libbey Park.

Alma Escobar still feels the stares when she strides away from the starting line, almost as though she's the lone participant in a race. But eyes no longer train on Escobar solely for her diminutive frame. Escobar, a junior cross-country runner at Corona, is gaining more attention for the way she dwarfs the competition. "She has a Cadillac engine in a Volkswagen body," said Don Chadez, the athletic director at Corona and a former track and cross-country coach for 26 years.