Tars’ Eddy bound for USC

Newport Harbor High junior Elizabeth Eddy has verbally committed to play soccer at USC.

A star striker for the Sailors, she earned first-team All-Sunset League honors for the second straight year this past season. As a freshman, she was named Orange Coast League Most Valuable Player, while playing for Calvary Chapel.

In the fall, she was one of 21 to be named to the U.S. Under-17 Women’s National Team that competed in the 2008 FIFA Women’s World Cup in New Zealand.

Before her junior year ends, Eddy will be a coach for a youth soccer team in the 10th annual Daily Pilot Cup.

— Steve Virgen

Mustangs win coin toss

The Costa Mesa High boys’ volleyball team won the coin toss and will play host to No. 2 seed Westlake in the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division II playoffs.

The match is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

The Mustangs (15-7) have won two straight five-game matches to open the playoffs, including a dramatic victory against Arroyo Grande Tuesday, when they fought off two match points to earn the triumph.

In CIF Division V, Sage Hill will play host to Chadwick of Palos Verde Peninsula in the quarterfinals. Last year, Chadwick knocked out the Lightning in five games in the quarterfinals at Sage Hill.

On March 10, Chadwick defeated visiting Sage Hill, 23-25, 25-23, 21-25, 25-23, 17-15.

UCI pitchers tracked

UC Irvine juniors Danny Bibona and Eric Pettis have been named to the College Baseball Foundation Pitcher of the Year watch list.

The initial list is comprised of the 50 top pitchers in the country and the winner will be honored July 2 in Lubbock, Texas during the College Baseball Awards show.

Entering Tuesday’s home game against USC, Bibona was 7-1 with a 2.25 earned-run average. The southpaw leads the Big West Conference in ERA and in strikeouts with 67 and is holding the opposition to a .212 average. Bibona recorded a season-high 11 strikeouts in seven shutout innings against Nevada and allowed four hits in eight scoreless innings in a win against then-No. 1-ranked Cal State Fullerton.

Bibona, who has earned Big West Pitcher of the Week honors twice this season, has pitched 68 innings and allowed 17 earned runs.

Pettis was second in the nation in saves with 13. The right-hander is 3-1 and leads the conference in saves and in games finished with 19. Pettis has allowed just one run in his last seven outings and has struck out 29 in 32 1/3 innings. He has allowed only four walks

Pettis was named the Big West Pitcher of the Week after registering a win and a save in UCI’s sweep of Long Beach State.

Buran set for honor

The “California Kid” Joey Buran will join previously announced inductees Jeff Hakman, Bruce Brown and Pat O’Connell as the 2009 inductees into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame.

Buran, a Costa Mesa resident, is a former Pipeline Masters champion and the first California surfer to win a World Tour event. He will have his foot and handprints forever immortalized in the concrete in front of Huntington Surf & Sport.

Buran started the Professional Surfing Assn. of America in the mid-1980s, and is currently a pastor at Worship Generation Orange County church in Fountain Valley. He is also head coach of the U.S. national team.

The free-of-charge induction ceremony is at 10 a.m. July 24 at the corner of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway. For more information, visit hsssurf.com/hall.