Baseball: Newport outslugged by Riverside Poly

RIVERSIDE - Newport Harbor High and Riverside Poly’s baseball teams

combined for nine home runs, and the host Bears pulled out a 10-9 victory

with appropriately enough, a homer in the top of the eighth inning,

during Tuesday’s North Orange County Tournament third round game.Down 9-3

in the fifth inning, the Sailors (1-2) scored six runs to tie up the

game. Miguel Sandoval and Scott Beerer each hit two-run homers in that

inning for Newport. It was Beerer’s second home run of the day. He

finished with three hits and three RBIs. Nick Langsdorf was 2 for 4 with

one homer and two RBIs for the Tars. Alan Lane was 2 for 4 and drove in a

Newport run in the fifth.

John Torres hit a solo shot in the top of the eighth for Riverside Poly’s

(2-1) winning run, his second fence-clearing blast of the day. He was

also the winning pitcher.NORTH ORANGE COUNTY TOURNAMENT

Riverside Poly 10, Newport Harbor 9

Score by innings

Newport Harbor 000 360 00 - 9 13 2

Riverside Poly 301 410 01 - 10 13 1

McCarthy, Rorden (4), Sandoval (5) and Beerer; Fisher, Kelly (5), Gabriel

(5), Torres (7) and Chapel. 2B - Langsdorf (NH), Forsythe (NH). HR -

Beerer 2 (NH), Sandoval (NH), Langsdorf (NH), Torres 2 (RP), Leach (RP),

Fisher (RP), Kelly (RP).