Kirby, Rock Win a Record 12th Tourney

Top-seeded Karolyn Kirby and Angela Rock beat Elaine Roque and Janice O. Harrer twice to capture the championship of the Coors Light Santa Barbara Open pro beach volleyball tournament.

Kirby of San Diego and Rock of Oceanside earned $7,200 for the victory, their 12th in 16 tour stops this season.

Their 12 victories surpassed the tour record of 11 in 1989 by Jackie Silva and Patty Dodd.

Kirby and Rock beat Roque and Harrer 15-7 in the winners bracket final, send Roque and Harrer into the losers bracket, where they beat Silva and Dodd, 15-12, to earn a berth in the championship match. Kirby and Rock prevailed in that match, 15-9.

Second-seeded Lori Kotas of Cardiff and Gail Castro of Oceanside finished tied for seventh, earning $1,200.

The 17-stop tour concludes Aug. 23-25 at the Flamingo Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas.

The new team of Ricci Luyties of San Diego and Adam Johnson of Capistrano Beach won their first beach volleyball tournament at Milwaukee. Luyties and Johnson beat John Hanley and Mike Whitmarsh, 14-13, for the title.

BASKETBALL

Paula McNamee scored 20 points and Colleen Peck had 17 to lead the San Diego Police Athletic League 15-and-under team to a 80-49 victory over South Carolina to earn a berth in the championship winner’s bracket of the AAU/USA National Junior Olympic tournament in Charleston, W. Va.

SURFING

Rob Machado of Cardiff defeated Jeff Deffenbaugh of Huntington Beach, 90.5 to 60, to capture the junior amateur division of the Op Pro surfing championship at the Huntington Beach Pier Sunday. Machado, the runner-up at the 1989 Op junior, won a $1,000 scholarship for the victory.

Machado, 17, a graduate of San Dieguito High School, trailed, 40.5 to 39, but scored a 26, a 21 and a 24 on his final three waves to easily win.

Top-seeded Barton Lynch of Manly, Australia, won the main contest over Newport Beach’s Richie Collins, 76.5-74. Brad Gerlach of Encinitas reached the semifinals, where he fell to Collins, 83-67.

TENNIS

Top-seeded Debbie Graham of Fountain Valley, a former NCAA singles champion at Stanford, advanced to the final round of the Mazda Tennis Classic qualifying tournament with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Karen Shin of Sherman Oaks. Three of the top four seeded players advanced, including third-seeded Nathalie Herreman of St. Adresse, France, who defeated San Diego’s Katrina Crawford, 6-2, 6-2. No. 2-Erika De Lone of Lincoln, Mass. beat Julie Shiflet of Virginia Beach, 6-2, 6-3. Lindsay Davenport of Los Angeles upset fourth-seeded Stacey Martin of Largo, Md., 1-6, 6-1, 6-3.