Mike ShwamEdison, JuniorBaseball/PitcherUntil last week, not much...

Mike Shwam

Edison, Junior

Baseball/Pitcher

Until last week, not much had been going right for Edison baseball players, including Shwam. Coach Tom Duggan even considered sending him down to the junior varsity as a motivational tool. Instead, Duggan gave him a lecture and a start in the semifinals of the Coachella Valley tournament Wednesday. Shwam responded with a brilliant performance, giving up only two hits and striking out 14 in an 8-0 victory over Beaumont. “He was getting stronger as he went,” Duggan said. “He just mowed them down.” In the championship game, also Wednesday, he broke a 5-5 tie with a two-out, two-run single in the fifth and pitched the sixth in relief, striking out two as the Chargers (7-8) beat Saugus, 10-5, to extend their winning streak to five.

Baseball

Bob Brito

* Cypress, junior. Hit two three-run home runs in a 10-6 victory over Anaheim in the Anaheim Lions tournament. Had three hits and two runs batted in during a 9-8 loss to Sunny Hills in the title game.

Kevin Stuart

* Corona del Mar, junior. Hit a three-run home run in the eighth to give the Sea Kings a 7-4 victory over Santa Margarita in the Pride of the Coast tournament title game.

Track and field

Brandon Pacheco

* Brethren Christian, senior. Won the 800 meters in 1 minute 55.40 seconds at the Mt. San Antonio relays and finished second in the 1,600 in 4:15.78, the best time in the county this season.