Baseball: Woodbridge gets ‘Nick’ed by Tars

Tony Altobelli

NEWPORT BEACH - The stubborness of Justin Jacobs and the biceps of

Nick Langsdorf led Newport Harbor High’s baseball team to a 6-5 Sea View

League comeback win over visiting Woodbridge Monday afternoon.

Langsdorf clubbed two home runs, including a tie-breaking blast over the

left-center field fence in the bottom of the seventh inning, giving

Newport its first league win in three attempts. He now has four home runs

for the season.

“Woodbridge has a couple of pitchers with some pretty good stuff,” Kiefer

said. “But if you try to throw a fastball in on Nick, you better make

sure it’s WAY in, otherwise, he’ll beat you.”

Langsdorf added a single and three RBIs to his totals, while Jacobs threw

a complete-game five-hitter, striking out five.

“He really competed for us out there today,” Kiefer said. “He had good

movement on his stuff and after a shaky start, he settled down and kept

us in the ball game, which is all I ask of my starters.”

Newport (2-5, 1-2 in league) managed to come all the way back from a 5-1

deficit for the win.

Along with Langsdorf and Jacob’s heroics, Kiefer was pleased with the key

plays from various Sailor players.

“I really liked the fact that from top to bottom, each player had an

opportunity to make something happen and they made it happen,” Kiefer

said.

Trailing, 5-1, in the fourth inning, Jacobs and catcher Garrett Brant

each reached with singles before Alan Lane layed down a perfect sacrifice

bunt, moving runners into scoring position.

A suprise suicide squeeze by Chris Ward brought in Jacobs before Cory

Forsythe laced a double right down the left-field line, bringing in Brant

and cutting the lead to 5-3.

Langsdorf tied the game at 5-5 with a two-run blast to center field,

scoring Donovan Wong ahead of him, who led off the inning with a double

to right.

Brant made a big defensive play behind the plate in the top of the

seventh, cutting down a Woodbridge (2-5, 0-2) rally.

With runners on first and second and only one out, Brant knocked down a

pitch in the dirt and allertly saw the runner on first break for second

which was still occupied by a Warriors’ runner.

Running at the stranded runner between first and second, Brant saw the

runner at second sneaking off the bag and fired a strike at second to

pick off the lead runner, setting up Langsdorf’s game-winning dinger in

the bottom of the seventh.SEA VIEW LEAGUE

Newport Harbor 6, Woodbridge 5

Woodbridge 400 100 0 - 5 5 2

Newport Harbor 010 220 1 - 6 11 2

Jacobs and Brant; Flagel, Peck (6) and Martinez. W - Jacobs, 2-2. L -

Peck. 2B - Yoder (W), Wong (NH), Beerer (NH). HR - Langsdorf (NH) 2.