Baseball: Paramount captures second league title

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Paramount won its second consecutive San Gabriel Valley League title Tuesday with a 5-3 victory over Gahr. The Pirates, ranked No. 12 in the Southland by The Times, opened with four runs in the first inning and never looked back.

Gahr closed the gap with a three-run home run in the second inning, but junior Eddie Magallon took over and dominated the rest of the game.

Senior Andrew Hernandez, who had an RBI single in the first and made two terrific defensive plays, stopped by to chat after the game. Hernandez is among a group of Paramount players who began their high school career by playing on the undefeated freshman team. The next season, that group helped to lead Paramount to the quarterfinals of the Southern Section Division III playoffs. The last two seasons, they’ve won league titles. And Hernandez says they are not done. Listen to the interview.

-- Jaime Cardenas