Prep baseball: Sea Kings hang on, 7-6

CORONA DEL MAR - Senior Billy Eagle’s fourth-inning grand slam

helped host Corona del Mar High take a 7-1 lead and it turned out to be

just enough to claim a 7-6 win over Foothill in a consolation semifinal

baseball game of the Newport Elks Tournament’s Foothill Division.

Eagle went 2 for 3 and junior teammate Keith Long went 2 for 3 with a

double and an RBI to lead a 10-hit CdM attack that also benefited from

five Foothill errors. Josh Bradbury also had two hits for the Sea Kings

(2-1).

Blake Contant earned the pitching victory, but not without some help

from junior Nick Rhodes.

Rhodes, an All-Newport-Mesa District selection last spring, came in

with one out in the sixth and the tying run on third. He induced a popup,

then fanned the Knights’ leadoff man to end the threat. Rhodes then

finished up to record his first save.

NEWPORT ELKS TOURNAMENT

Foothill Division consolation semifinal

Corona del Mar 7, Foothill 6

Foothill 100 032 0 - 6 7 5

Corona del Mar 002 500 x - 7 10 3

Hughes, Chambless (5) and Hastings, Caston (5); Contant, N. Rhodes (6)

and Karpe. W - Contant, 1-0. L - Hughes. Sv - N. Rhodes (1). 2B - Sarak

(F), Long (CdM). HR - Eagle (CdM).