Baseball: Full summer slate for two-sport Little Leaguers

Richard Dunn

As Little League All-Star battles heat up for locals, some baseball

standouts juggle other sports in the summer.

Take Ryan Knapp of the Costa Mesa National Little League 9-10 All-Star

team, for example.

Knapp also competed in the 11th annual Costa Mesa Junior Golf

Championships at Costa Mesa Golf & Country Club recently and finished

tied for third in the boys 11-and-under division, shooting 42.

Knapp, who will play baseball for Mesa beginning Saturday in a Little

League all-star tournament, is preparing for the Junior World Golf

Championships in San Diego next month.

A few years back, Josh Bradbury of Newport Coast was another example

of a young two-sport standout. He was the star pitcher for the Newport

Beach Little League All-Stars, while competing in the Southern California

Junior Tennis Sectionals at Los Caballeros in Fountain Valley.

Little Leaguers get back in the groove today as the Newport Beach

American Majors face Laguna Niguel in the opening round of the District

55 All-Star Tournament at Youth Sports Park in Mission Viejo at 5:30 p.m.