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Just in time for Memorial Day — a mainstayfor local beach communities looking ahead tosummertime sales receipts — Gov. GavinNewsom gave the green light Saturday for Or-ange County restaurants and retail businessesto begin serving more customers, with limita-tions.

County officials requested Thursday a vari-ance that would allow local businesses to ac-celerate into Phase 2 of the state’s PandemicResilience Roadmap, a plan that ties four pha-ses of reopening to targets relating to co-ronavirus infection trends, testing and contacttracing.

Phase 2 permits in-person dining reserva-tions and retail shopping with distancing andface-mask protocols in place. Some personalservice businesses may open, including carwashes, pet groomers, tanning facilities andlandscape gardening services.

The second phase also allows for the open-ing of outdoor museums as well as somemanufacturing businesses and offices, thoughteleworking is still recommended.

And in a new announcement Monday,Newsom announced barbershops and hairsalons would be allowed to reopen in counties

where variances have been approved, mark-ing the beginning steps of a transition intoPhase 3.

For approval to move fully into Phase 2, Or-ange County had to demonstrate dailyCOVID-19 hospitalization rate changes of lessthan 5% throughout a seven-day period orshow no more than 20 hospitalizations in anyone day for the past 14 days.

The county also had to prove lower infec-tion rates — fewer than 25 new cases per100,000 residents in the past 14 days, or lessthan 8% positive results among countywidecoronavirus testing in a seven-day period.

In an attestation report submitted Thurs-day to the state’s Public Health Department,Orange County health officer Dr. NicholeQuick showed the average daily percent

change in COVID-19 hospitalizations betweenMay 13 and 19 was .91%.

Quick also showed that, in the same timeperiod, only 7.95% of the 10,147 coronavirustests issued countywide returned positive re-sults.

Orange County officials had to demonstratethe capacity to test 1.5 in every 1,000 residents(about 4,800, Quick estimated in the report)and provide 15 staff per 100,000 county resi-dents have been trained and are available toconduct contact tracing.

Quick said the county had the capacity toperform more than 9,000 tests per day and as-sured more than 20 state and locally fundedtesting centers are conducting more than

NICK STEFFEN, left, Mateo Stanford, in red, and Julianne Zenkus eat at the Longboard Restaurant and Pub in Huntington Beach on Tuesday.

Phase 2 opens parts of O.C.Retailers, restaurants, hairsalons among businessesOKd for reopening, with limits.

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JAMES COELHOgives a haircut toRamon Ramirez, ofSan Pedro, at MakinWaves Salon inHuntington Beachon Tuesday

Healthagency:2K haverecovered

BYMATT SZABO

But 110 new cases of thecoronavirus were reportedin O.C. Tuesday, with nonew deaths. Total casesare approaching 6,000.

The Orange County Health CareAgency estimated Tuesday thatnearly 2,000 county residents haverecovered from COVID-19 since thenovel coronavirus pandemic beganin March.

The agency’s daily update in-cluded recovery numbers for thefirst time. They were calculated bytaking the difference between theprior 28-day cumulative case countand current day mortality. Theagency estimated that 1,995 peoplehave recovered from the respiratorydisease.

There have been 5,578 reportedCOVID-19 cases in the county. Ac-cording to Tuesday’s update, therewere 110 new cases reported, but nodeaths for the second day in a row.

The cumulative death count nowstands at 131, including 52 skillednursing facility residents.

There are 269 COVID-19 casescurrently hospitalized, including 106in intensive care.

Both numbers represent a single-day high during the pandemic. Thedata comes with 24 of 25 eligiblehospitals reporting.

Just 795 tests were reported ad-ministered on Monday, the Memori-al Day holiday. To date, 105,138 peo-ple in the county have been testedfor the coronavirus.

Of the cumulative reported cases,18% of the people were in the agerange 25 to 34, and 18% were in theage range 45 to 54. People ages 35 to44 and 55 to 64 both account for15% of the cases.

In terms of the deaths due toCOVID-19, 86% of them have beenpeople ages 55 and older. A total of29% were ages 75 to 84, and 27%were 85 or older.

Males account for 52% of the cu-mulative cases in the county, and57% of the deaths.

Those who identify as Hispanic or

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About 80 Newport-Mesa Uni-fied School District high schoolseniors gathered Tuesday morn-ing in front of the district officein Costa Mesa, protesting the de-cision to cancel in-person gradu-ations in the district due to theongoing novel coronavirus pan-demic.

The peaceful protesters werefrom Corona del Mar, NewportHarbor, Costa Mesa and Estanciahigh schools.

Several parents also came insupport of the students, all ofwhom were wearing masks andpracticing social distancing.Many held signs that read thingslike, “Let us walk,” or, “We de-serve better.”

The Newport-Mesa board oftrustees decided May 19 in con-junction with principals to moveto an online broadcast for eachof the six high schools in the dis-trict, also including Early Collegeand Back Bay/Monte Vista.

The live broadcast will containtraditional graduation elementsand be produced by Van WagnerSports and Entertainment, and isto be shown the week of June 15.

Henry Hobin, the Corona delMar senior class president, pro-posed that the seniors would liketo have their respective gradu-ations postponed to late July.This could increase the possibil-ity for an in-person graduation ifcurrent restrictions for in-person

Move to hold graduations online draws protest

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STUDENTS OUTSIDE of the NMUSD office in Costa Mesa onTuesday protest the district’s decision to not hold in-persongraduation ceremonies this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Orange County foodiesand fans of NewportBeach’s Royal Thai Cuisineare saddened by the end ofan era, and a dynasty, asowners of the family-op-erated business recentlyannounced the restau-rant’s closure after nearlyfour decades.

Mimi Dang, daughter ofowner Sam Tilakamonkul,aka Sam Tila, confirmedthe news last week. Tilaopened the first Royal ThaiCuisine location with sev-en brothers in the late1970s using their mother’shome recipes and servedas executive chef.

“There were plans to cel-ebrate this [occasion] withour friends and family whohave helped us along theway. But then COVID-19hit,” Dang said Friday byemail. “As we socially dis-tanced, we quietly and

tearfully turned in our keysand reflected on the mem-ories.”

Shortly after arriving tothe Los Angeles area fromtheir native Thailand, the

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AFTER 36YEARS,Royal ThaiCuisine inNewport Beach isclosing down.The last in achain of family-run restaurantsstarted in 1978.

Orange County real es-tate magnate William Ly-on, who built more than100,000 homes nation-wide and helped shapesuburban America overthe past half-century, hasdied. He was 97.

Lyon, a former Air Forcegeneral, was among thepioneers of Southern Cali-fornia’s post-World War IIeconomic boom, a pre-scient businessman whoforesaw the region’sstratospheric growth andthe unquenchable needfor housing.

William Lyon, pioneering O.C.real estate magnate, dies at 97

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WILLIAMLYON,shown withElizabethSegerstrom in2015, died onFriday.

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rored California’s roller-coasterreal estate market. He becameone of the nation’s wealthiestmen during the boom years ofthe 1960s and ’70s but was nearlyruined by the 1990s housingcrash. In 1999, he was able to re-bound when the market did —unlike many of his competitors.

“In business, as in religion,you have to believe in some-thing,” he once told a meeting ofdevelopers. “If you are a Califor-nia builder, you must believethat people will continue tocome to California, or you willnot get to heaven.”

Lyon was born in Los Angeleson March 9, 1923. The son of abeverage wholesaler, Lyon fell inlove with aviation at age 16 afterpaying $1 to fly in an airplane.Seven years later, he dropped outof USC to be a commercial pilot.While in the Air Force, he flew 75combat missions in Korea, drop-

“It is with deep sadness we an-nounce our founder, GeneralWilliam Lyon, passed awaypeacefully at his home earlierthis afternoon,” the Lyon Air Mu-seum announced on Twitter Fri-day. His son told the OrangeCounty Register that the deathwas not related to COVID-19.

Lyon began his constructioncareer in 1954 with a 66-homeproject in Anaheim. Within adecade he was among the na-tion’s largest homebuilders andwould ride the wave of suburbansprawl for decades to come. HisWilliam Lyon Co. was head-quartered in Newport Beach.

“Lyon has grown large by sell-ing a mass-produced, relativelyinexpensive product,” Forbesmagazine wrote of him in 1990.

“A Lyon community is a latter-day Levittown marketed with aSam Walton flair. ... Like Walton,he undercuts competitors’ pricesand dresses his customer servicepeople in distinctive blue uni-forms.”

Lyon was a decorated Air Forcepilot who served in World War IIand the Korean War, attainingthe rank of major general. In themid-1970s, he took a four-yearsabbatical from business whenhe was appointed chief of theU.S. Air Force Reserves by Presi-dent Gerald Ford.

“The General,” as friends knewhim, was a big-game hunter whoowned one of the world’s mostvaluable rare car collections —some 100 vehicles that hehoused in a 15,000-square-foot“garage” on his sprawling Cotode Caza estate. Among themwere vintage Duesenbergs, aMercedes used as a staff car by

Adolf Hitler and a 1931 BugattiRoyale Coupe de Ville, one ofonly six made.

Unlike some collectors, Lyonregularly took his irreplaceableautomobiles out for a spin.

“These cars originally weremade to be driven, so I put themto their intended purpose,” hetold a Los Angeles Times report-er in 1987. “If I couldn’t drive acar, I wouldn’t want it.”

Lyon was a major philan-thropist, donating millions to or-ganizations including theOrangewood Children’s Founda-tion for abused and neglectedchildren and the Orange CountyPerforming Arts Center. He wasalso a leading Republican fund-raiser. He once hosted a$100,000-per-couple lunch at hishome to raise money to buildRonald Reagan’s presidential li-brary.

Lyon’s business career mir-

ping U.S. agents behind enemylines.

Flying remained in Lyon’sblood throughout his life. Heowned several aviation compa-nies through the years and re-mained an active pilot, pilotinghis own corporate jet as well as astable of World War II-era planeshe collected.

In 2008, at age 85, Lyon flew avintage B-17 Flying Fortressacross the country to participatein a memorial ceremony inWashington, D.C. The trip in theWorld War II-era bomber tooktwo days.

“It has four engines, so if oneshuts down, it’s not a big prob-lem,” Lyon told the Register. “I’mtaking my chief mechanic and alot of spare parts.”

Mike Anton is a former Los An-geles Times staff writer. Los Ange-les Times staff writer Sonali Kohlicontributed to this report.

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gatherings are relaxed bythen.

Hobin began a shortspeech with a quote fromDr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Icame to the conclusion thatthere is an existential mo-ment in your life when youmust decide to speak foryourself; nobody else canspeak for you.”

“We’re very confident, af-ter 12 amazing years ofNewport-Mesa education,that the board will listen toour idea and hopefullythink of something as simi-lar as possible,” Hobin said.“We are not here to shame.We are not here to ridicule.We’re just here to demon-strate that we care, and thatwe do not want our hardwork and dedication to behonored inappropriately.”

Newport Harbor seniorRiley DeCinces, who at-tended Tuesday’s protest,wrote a letter to the boardof trustees last week in favorof the previously scheduledin-person graduation atDavidson Field.

“We just want to showthem that we can be safe

while doing it,” saidDeCinces, the editor-in-chief of the school’s year-book. “We can stay 6 feetapart. We don’t have to hug,we don’t have to holdhands. We just want thatopportunity to be able tograduate with our friendsand with our teachers.”

Newport-Mesa UnifiedSchool District spokeswom-an Annette Franco said inan email after the protestthat an in-person gradua-tion would be the firstchoice of everyone in-volved.

“However, we must abideby state orders and social-distancing guidelines, as wehave a moral imperative toprovide the safest environ-ment for our school com-munity,” Franco said."[That] is why our highschool principals, in col-laboration with the district,decided to proceed with agraduation broadcast, al-lowing all students andtheir families to participatein a safe manner as weabide by state orders andsocial distancing mea-sures.”

Franco added that districthigh schools are workingwith student leaders to plan

an in-person senior cele-bration later this summer.

That may not satisfymany in attendance atTuesday’s protest. GrantJames came in support ofhis daughter, Megan James,an Estancia senior.

“She’s got a 4.2 grade-point average and she’sbeen accepted to [UC]Berkeley and everything,”Grant James said. “But still,she’s just like, ‘I want to domy high school walk.’ Thir-teen years without anythingjust doesn’t seem right.”

Orange County highschools have approachedthe class of 2020’s gradua-tion in different ways. MaterDei last week announced adrive-in graduation. TustinUnified School Districtpostponed its in-personhigh school graduations toearly August.

Here are the currentlyscheduled virtual gradua-tion dates for Newport-Mesa high schools: EarlyCollege and Back Bay,June 15; Costa Mesa,June 16; Estancia, June 17;Corona del Mar, June 18;Newport Harbor, June 19.

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Latino account for 34% ofthe cumulative cases, fol-lowed by whites at 19%.

The race/ethnicity of29% of the cases is un-known.

Here are the latest casecounts for select cities,with their numbers per10,000 residents:

• Santa Ana: 1,032 (30.6

cases per 10,000 residents)• Anaheim: 904 (25.2

cases per 10,000 residents)• Huntington Beach: 329

(16.1 cases per 10,000 resi-dents)

• Irvine: 180 (6.4 casesper 10,000 residents)

• Newport Beach: 139(15.9 cases per 10,000 resi-dents)

• Costa Mesa: 104 (9.0cases per 10,000 residents)

• Fountain Valley: 53(9.4 cases per 10,000 resi-

dents)• Laguna Beach: 45 (19.3

cases per 10,000 residents)Updated figures are

posted daily at occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/coronavirus-in-oc.

For information on get-ting tested, visit occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/covid-19-testing-and-screening.

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7,000 tests weekly. She esti-mated the 477 contact trac-ers would be trainedthroughout Orange Countyby July 1.

“With this attestation, it isour goal to ensure all OrangeCounty businesses have theconfidence to open as safelyand as soon as possiblewithout concerns about thestate order,” Board of Super-visors Chairwoman MichelleSteel said Saturday.

Before reopening, howev-er, businesses must complywith certain protocols. Theymust:

• Perform a detailed riskassessment and implementa site-specific protectionplan

• Train employees how toprevent the spread of the co-ronavirus and screen them-selves for symptoms beforereporting to work

• Commit to individualcontrol measures andscreenings and implementdisinfection and physicaldistancing protocols.

• Post industry-specificchecklists showing compli-ance in the workplace

“We understand thatmany businesses are hurtingat this time and greatly wantto reopen with as little issuesas possible,” Supervisor DonWagner said in Saturday’sstatement. “However, thestate is requiring trainingand assessments to be doneprior to reopening. We askthat businesses work as bestas they can to meet theseguidelines.”

HUNTINGTON BEACHLegions of shoppers and

beachgoers flocked to Hunt-ington Beach for the Memo-rial Day weekend holiday,with some enjoying restau-rant dining for the first timein months.

Mayor Lyn Semeta said ina release over the weekendthe county’s meeting thereadiness criteria set forthby the state was a positivebeginning for area busi-nesses.

“This is an incredible stepforward for HuntingtonBeach and all OrangeCounty cities,” Semeta said.“Moving further into Stage 2will provide the lifeline thatso many in our restaurantand retail industries need tosurvive this pandemic.”

Semeta announced a newwebsite “HB Ready” has

been set up to answer ques-tions about the reopeningand help business ownerslearn guidelines specific totheir industries.

COSTA MESAIn Costa Mesa — where

officials are working towarda tentative June 1 reopeningof City Hall — MayorKatrina Foley called New-som’s recent announcement“encouraging” for local busi-ness owners.

“The last two monthshave been unprecedented,but all of our sacrifices andhard work truly paid off,” Fo-ley said in a statement. “I amoptimistic that together wecan enter a new phase of re-opening our local economyin a way that is safe and re-stores the vitality of ouramazing local businesses.”

The mayor said a new col-laboration “restore CostaMesa” has been working todevelop guidelines thatwould allow for the safe re-opening of city commerce,while a shop local campaigncalled “Costa Mesa’s BAC”aims to impart the impor-tance of shopping locally.

“I am grateful for the ex-cellent partnership with ourlocal business communityand proud of their resil-ience,” Foley said. “We allshare a collective commit-ment to safety as we moveinto this new stage of oureconomic recovery.”

South Coast Plaza plans toreopen its popular mall forin-store retail on Monday.

“We are thrilled to learnthat we are now allowed toreopen to the public,” saidDebra Gunn Downing, aspokeswoman for SouthCoast Plaza. “South CoastPlaza and its retailers andrestaurants are ready withnew social distancing mea-sures and other significantprotocols designed to pro-vide a safe and welcomingshopping experience for ourvisitors. We will reopen onJune 1 and share detailsabout our new practicessoon.”

NEWPORT BEACHRetail businesses at New-

port Beach’s Fashion Islandbegan opening to customerson Saturday, as owners im-plemented safety measuresand guidelines, an associatesaid Tuesday. Representa-tives said the center, whichhad been offering meal take-out and delivery and somecurbside pickup before Me-morial Day weekend, could

be fully reopened as soon asJune 1.

News of the easing up ofrestrictions in NewportBeach followed on the heelsof the city’s phased reopen-ing May 18 of its City Hallbuilding to the visiting pub-lic.

The city’s permit centerwas scheduled for an imme-diate reopening, with thebuilding and safety counteron track to reopen after Me-morial Day and all otherservices scheduled to re-sume June 1, with facial cov-erings and physical distanc-ing guidelines in place.

Newport Beach libraries,the OASIS Senior Center andcommunity centers remainclosed until further notice,according to the city’s web-site.

Meanwhile, City Councilmembers were to conveneTuesday to vote on the FastTrack Back to Business Ini-tiative, an emergency permitwaiver that would allowbusinesses and religious in-stitutions to temporarily ex-pand into parking lots, side-walks or public property tomaintain their usual occu-pancy.

“If tonight’s [item] passes,we’ll be looking at dedicat-ing staff to fast track thesepermits,” city spokesmanJohn Pope said Tuesday.“Safety and traffic are stillgoing to be a concern … butwe do want to be flexibleand work with businessowners to give them asmuch space as possible.”

LAGUNA BEACHCity Council members in

Laguna Beach also metTuesday evening to discussimplementing an economicrecovery and business de-velopment plan approvedMay 12, which could allowfor the expansion of retailspace into some publicareas.

Council members willalso consider postponingthe conversion of Ocean Av-enue to a one-way street un-til fall and approving andadopting a resolution thatwill allow for the proposedoutdoor dining and enter-tainment on lower ForestAvenue.

If approved Tuesday, thepanel would vote on a$145,703 contract with Coa-chella organizers ChouraEvents to establish “Prome-nade on Forest” by June 15.

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Tila brothers first openedBangkok Market, thoughtto be the city’s first Thaiwholesale grocery store, onMelrose Avenue in 1972.

Known for once hard-to-find items, such as currypaste, kefir lime leaves, for-bidden rice and lem-ongrass, the market closedin November, the Los An-geles Times reported.

The first Royal Thai Cui-sine restaurant opened onPico Boulevard in 1978,serving a mostly Americanclientele. In the years thatfollowed, family membersopened numerous loca-tions in Laguna and Man-hattan beaches, Carlsbad,La Jolla and San Diego(with a satellite kitchen onthe UC San Diego cam-pus).

The Newport Beachrestaurant, opened in 1984,was the last Royal Thai Cui-sine to be owned and op-erated by the Tilakamonkulfamily.

It made headlines in1992 when a 6-foot tall, 1-ton teak elephant statuewas stolen from chainsthat anchored it to thebrick pavement near theentrance to the restaurantand carried off.

A 22-year-old man waslater arrested after photosof him posing with thestatue surfaced, and thepachyderm was returned(minus one tusk) to the es-tablishment.

Dang said her father be-came a community figure,sponsoring philanthropicevents and being recog-nized by the Southern Cali-fornia Restaurant WritersAssn. as a Gold Award win-ner many times over for

the restaurant’s authenticdishes and signature cock-tail selection.

In 2019, Royal Thai Cui-sine was awarded “BestThai Food” as part of theL.A. Times’ Best of TimesOC contest.

Dang thanked the loyalpatrons of the restaurantand the many family mem-bers who played a role inthe success of the family-operated establishmentover the years.

“We can’t close withoutthanking you, the peoplewho have supported RoyalThai Cuisine the past fourdecades, as well as the en-tire Tilakamonkul familyfor all their hard work anddedication to the familybusiness,” she wrote. “Wewish you much success onyour next adventure.”

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M egan Chelf went into the postsea-son this year knowing that everymatch could be her last in a Co-

rona del Mar High girls’ soccer uniform.After four years wearing it, the University

of Arizona-bound senior didn’t want totake it off. But she said she went into theSea Kings’ CIF Southern Section Division 1playoff match at No. 4-seeded Mater Deiwith the flu and bronchitis.

“I was in the hospital the day before, butI wasn’t going to let myself miss thatgame,” Chelf said. “I thought I was going togo in and play maybe 10 minutes, but Iplayed the whole game. I thought I wasgoing to throw up after, but it was worthit.”

CdM scored a 3-2 upset victory over theMonarchs in overtime. The draw got eventougher the next round, as the Sea Kingswere eliminated 4-0 two days later byeventual champion Corona Santiago. ButChelf still could say she finished her careeron the field, not the bench.

That kind of toughness signified the runof Chelf, a scrappy 5-foot-4 forward. She isan accomplished fullback for her clubteam, the SoCal Blues, but she played uptop for CdM because that’s where coachBryan Middleton needed her. When thedust settled, Chelf ended her career withprogram-record totals of 58 goals and 34assists.

Chelf is the 2019-20 Daily Pilot DreamTeam Girls’ Soccer Player of the Year.

“There were games where she was un-stoppable,” Middleton said of Chelf, whohad 14 goals and four assists this season.“It didn’t matter who was marking her.”

A prime example came in a 6-0 non-league win over Rolling Hills Estates Penin-sula on Dec. 6. That was part of a red-hotstart for the Sea Kings (13-6-2), who wontheir first 10 matches of the season. In thatPeninsula match, Chelf set the single-gameprogram record with five goals.

“It was just one of those days where shewas on fire and whatever she put on targetwas going in,” Middleton said. “She didn’twant to come out of the game, so I put herat center back the last 20 minutes. Shepicked off a ball at [midfield], took twotouches and hit one from like 45 yards outthat sailed over the goalkeeper’s head forher fifth goal. That was pretty incredible.”

Chelf earned Surf League OffensivePlayer of the Year honors after helping theSea Kings tie for third in the competitiveleague at 2-4. She was an All-CIF SouthernSection Division 1 selection as well.

Though her numbers were down a bitfrom her CdM single-season record 22-goal outburst as a junior, her presenceopened things up for her teammates.Chelf’s former club teammate Nikki Senskecame out for soccer her senior year andscored five goals. Junior Avery Doherty alsocame on strong late in the season andscored five goals.

“Soccer isn’t just about one person,”Chelf said. “It’s really about all 11 people onthe field. If someone is marking me, thatdoesn’t mean we’re going to lose or any-thing. I have such good teammates. If I’mmarked, I can always count on them to dothe job or finish it. If I’m not scoring, I cancount on them to score.”

Chelf is excited to head to the Universityof Arizona. She is expected to use hertenacity on defense for the Wildcats, whoadvanced to the second round of theNCAA Tournament last year.

That Mater Dei match indicates, howev-er, how much playing high school soccerreally has meant to her.

“I’m happy that I did play,” Chelf said. “Ifit was a different result, I would have neverforgiven myself for not playing.”

COACH OF THE YEARKerry CrooksEdisonThe Chargers lacked some of the big-

time star power of recent years, but theywere resilient under Crooks, in her 30thyear in charge at her alma mater. Edisonwent 14-6-4 overall and finished second inthe competitive Surf League at 3-2-1, be-hind rival Los Alamitos but was the onlyteam to beat the rival Griffins in league,winning 1-0 at Los Alamitos in the secondround. The Chargers then advanced to theCIF Southern Section Division 1 semifinalsfor the first time since 2014 before losing2-0 at top-seeded Upland. Crooks got themost out of her team, which recorded 15shutouts.

FIRST TEAMDesiree MendozaFW | Estancia | Sr.Mendoza, a four-time first-team Dream

Team selection, was one of the most dan-gerous forwards the area has seen in recent

years. A two-time Orange Coast LeagueMVP, she helped the Eagles (10-7-3, 7-1-2 inleague) finish second in the league andadvance to the second round of the CIFSouthern Section Division 4 playoffs,where Estancia lost 2-1 to top-seededHemet. Mendoza, bound for UC Irvine,finished her senior year with 10 goals and15 assists.

Summer StewartFW | Huntington Beach | Sr.Stewart was a big contributor for the

Oilers since she was a freshman, when shehelped Huntington Beach reach the CIFSouthern Section Division 1 semifinals forthe first time and the CIF Southern Cali-fornia Regional Division I title match. Shealso concluded her career quite nicely as asenior, tallying team-best totals of 12 goalsand 15 assists for Huntington Beach (10-

10-5), which tied for third in the SurfLeague at 2-4 and advanced to the Divi-sion 1 playoffs. Stewart was a first-teamAll-Surf League selection.

Itzel RamirezFW | Costa Mesa| Fr.Ramirez burst onto the scene as a fresh-

man for the Mustangs, helping provide ascoring punch following the graduation ofRayleen Chavez. Ramirez scored 22 goalsin the regular season, and 13 goals in theOrange Coast League alone to help theMustangs go 7-1-2 and win their secondstraight outright league title. Costa Mesa(13-7-2) advanced to the second round ofthe CIF Southern Section Division 4 play-offs before losing 5-3 to Hacienda HeightsWilson. Ramirez was the Orange CoastLeague Offensive MVP.

Avery DohertyMF | Corona del Mar | Jr.CdM coach Bryan Middleton moved

Doherty up from defender in the SeaKings’ Surf League match at Edison, and itimmediately paid dividends with two goalsin a 4-2 win. The versatile Doherty finishedthe season with five goals, tied for secondon the Sea Kings, and two assists. Doherty,a first-team All-Surf League selection, alsoscored twice in the Sea Kings’ 3-2 overtimeupset win at No. 4-seeded Mater Dei in thefirst round of the CIF Southern SectionDivision 1 playoffs.

Kate DaviesMF | Edison | Sr.Davies had a big responsibility as a de-

fensive midfielder for the Chargers. Shethrived in the role, earning Surf LeagueDefensive MVP honors. Davies and herball-winning ability were a big reason whyEdison recorded 15 shutouts in 24 matchesthis season. That included shutout victo-

DAILY PILOT DREAM TEAM | GIRLS’ SOCCER

CdMwill miss Megan Chelf’s scrappiness

Photos by Don Leach | Staff Photographer

MEGAN CHELF is the Daily Pilot Dream Team Player of the Year. She had 14 goals and four assists in her senior season for Corona del Mar.

CHELF does a cartwheel after scoring a goal in the 26th minute of a Surf League matchagainst Edison on Jan. 30. The forward was the league’s Offensive Player of the Year.

See Dream, page A4

BYMATT SZABO

The CIF Southern Section hasannounced the winners of its Aca-demic Awards program.

Cumulative grade-point aver-age was the criteria used to judgethe entries for 26 team sports.Teams had to have a minimum offive student-athletes with a min-imum GPA of 3.0 (4.0 scale).

Schools were divided into twoenrollment classifications — 1,500and above and 1,499 and below.The team with the highest GPA ineach enrollment category receivedtheir sport’s award, a banner tohonor their accomplishments inthe classroom.

Six new banners will be comingto the area, as that many localsmall-school athletic programsfinished on top academically.

Sage Hill finished first in base-ball (3.76), football (3.66), boys’lacrosse (3.75) and girls’ lacrosse(3.82) for schools with less than1,500 students. In the same group-ing, the Ocean View boys’ golf

team (3.91) and Costa Mesa boys’wrestling (3.55) also finished firstfor their sports.

Schools also had the ability tomake selections for their individu-al male and female student-ath-lete of the year. The chosen stu-dent-athletes must be seniors whohave maintained at least a 3.5 non-weighted GPA over the past threeyears. That standard was in addi-tion to earning a varsity letter in asport and partaking in extracur-ricular activities.

“We are very proud to honorand recognize our AcademicAwards champions,” section com-missioner of athletics Rob Wigodsaid in a statement. “Their out-standing achievements in theclassroom, while also devotingcountless hours to their athleticteams, truly exemplify and repre-sent the concept of the student-athlete at the highest level.”

Corona del Mar had NicholasRottler (baseball) and Megan Fisk(volleyball) as its honorees. DonGrable, the athletic director at

CdM, said that he was proud to saythat all 24 of the school’s varsityprograms carried a nonweightedGPA over 3.0 this school year.

Costa Mesa recognized CoryRichards (football and volleyball)and Malia Tufuga (volleyball andwater polo).

Nathan Santy (soccer and golf)and Alyson Nguyen (volleyball)earned individual awards forOcean View.

Sage Hill’s individual academicaward recipients were MatthewStrok (tennis) and Karina Grover(tennis), while Brethren Christian’swere Derek Reiser (cross-country,basketball and track and field) andShirlyn Rhee (cross-country andtrack and field).

The total number of teams hon-ored for each school is as follows:Sage Hill 25, Corona del Mar 24,Costa Mesa 20, Ocean View 19, Es-tancia 13, Brethren Christian 12,Fountain Valley 6.

Local schools among CIF Academic Award program winners

Don Leach | Staff Photographer

NICK ROTTLER of Corona del Mar rips a two-run home run during aNewport Rib Co. Tournament game against Laguna Hills on April 17, 2018.

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which had just two seniorson varsity. She helped SageHill finish second to rivalSt. Margaret’s in the SanJoaquin League, notchingtwo big wins over PacificaChristian Orange County.The Lightning (9-9, 6-2)would advance to the CIFSouthern Section Divi-sion 5 playoffs, losing 5-3 atRialto in the first round.Van Den Bosch was a first-team All-San JoaquinLeague selection.

McKenna PuaDEF | Marina | Jr.Pua, a repeat first-team

Dream Team selection, has

been anchoring the backline for the Vikings forthree years now. Her tough-ness as a center backhelped Marina win theWave League title, and Puaearned league MVP andAll-CIF Southern SectionDivision 2 honors. WithPua in charge, eight of theVikings’ 10 victories camevia shutout, including threein league. She is a Washing-ton State commit.

ries over Trabuco Hills,Santa Margarita and LongBeach Poly in the CIFSouthern Section Divi-sion 1 playoffs before theChargers finally lost attop-seeded Upland 2-0 inthe semifinals. Davies wasan All-CIF Division 1 selec-tion.

Makena CastilloMF / Marina / Jr.Castillo provided a mo-

ment to remember for theVikings. It was her blast inthe ninth minute that heldup as the only goal inMarina’s 1-0 win over de-fending league championNewport Harbor at homeJan. 28, as Marina clinchedits sixth league title inprogram history and firstsince the 1994-95 season.Castillo helped the Vikings(10-9-3, 5-1) then advanceto the CIF Southern Sec-tion Division 2 quarter-finals before losing 3-1 to

Capistrano Valley. Sheshared the Wave LeagueOffensive MVP award withLaguna Beach sophomoremidfielder Acacia Edwards.

Lexi Van Den BoschMF | Sage Hill | Jr.Van Den Bosch con-

trolled things in the middleand helped bring stabilityfor a young Lightning side,

Vanessa CarrilloDEF | Costa Mesa| Sr.The Mustangs’ center

back, a four-year varsitystarter, was tough to get by.Credit her quickness, asshe was also an accom-plished cross-country run-ner. Costa Mesa coachJason Boyce noted thatCarrillo didn’t let Estanciasenior striker Desiree Men-doza get a goal in the runof play in either of therivals’ Orange Coast Leaguematchups, helping CostaMesa repeat as leaguechampion. Carrillo was afirst-team all-league selec-tion.

Samara GolanDEF | Newport Harbor |

Jr.Golan and fellow junior

center back Jenna Mc-Connaughey were theleaders on defense for theSailors (16-6-4), who fin-ished third in the WaveLeague at 2-2-2 and lost3-1 at Troy in the firstround of the CIF SouthernSection Division 1 playoffs.Golan, a Cal Poly San Luis

Obispo commit, scoredher only goal of the seasonin a big moment, nailing afree kick from 41 yards outin the Battle of the Baymatch against rival Co-rona del Mar in whatwould eventually be a 1-1tie. Golan was a first-teamAll-Wave League selection.

Cameron RussoGK | Laguna Beach | Sr.Lola Fisher was a first-

team Dream Team selec-tion at goalkeeper last yearfor the Breakers. She grad-uated and Russo, who hadnot played high schoolsoccer since her freshman

year, burst back on thescene. The only senior inthe entire program thisseason, Russo was out-standing, earning WaveLeague Defensive MVPhonors after helping theBreakers pitch shutouts infive of six league matchesen route to a second-placefinish. Laguna Beach (7-6-6, 2-1-3) advanced to thesecond round of the CIFSouthern Section Divi-sion 3 playoffs beforelosing 2-0 to Palos Verdes.

SECOND TEAMPosition, Name, School,

YearFW Micaela Villafuerte,

Fountain Valley, Sr.FW Sadie Pitchess, New-

port Harbor, Sr.FW Natalia Guzman,

Costa Mesa, Sr.MF Nikki Marino, Edi-

son, Sr.MF Brooklyn Motske,

Pacifica Christian OrangeCounty, Sr.

MF Acacia Edwards,Laguna Beach, So.

MF Bella Messina, OceanView, Jr.

DEF Alex Ianni, Coronadel Mar, Sr.

DEF Abby McCollam,Edison, Sr.

DEF Wendy Milan, Es-tancia, Sr.

DEF Daisy Carrillo, CostaMesa, So.

GK Carly Miles, Marina,Sr.

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Continued from page A3DREAM

Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer

ESTANCIA’S DESIREEMENDOZA, right, and Costa Mesa’s Jazmin Lopez give chase to theball in an Orange Coast League match on Feb. 6. Mendoza is a four-time Dream Team pick.

Don LeachStaff Photographer

EDISON COACHKerry Crooks, left,greets a formerplayer on April 22,2017. Crooksis the DailyPilot DreamTeam Girls’Soccer Coachof the Year.