Prep baseball: Vaqueros defeat Eagles

COSTA MESA - Estancia High starting pitcher Casey Gates blanked

visiting Rancho Alamitos for three of his five innings, but the Vaqueros

wound up with a 15-4 baseball victory Saturday in a Costa Mesa Division

consolation game of the Newport Elks Tournament.

“Gates pitched really well,” said C.K. Green, who assumed head

coaching duties Thursday after Doug Deats resigned.

Green also praised his team’s defensive improvement, which resulted in

only one error.

Senior Paul Flory tripled in Justin Lund to highlight the Eagles’

six-hit attack.

Estancia (0-3-1) visits Los Amigos Monday in it’s final tuneup, before

hosting Laguna Beach in Friday’s Pacific Coast League opener.

NEWPORT ELKS TOURNAMENT

Rancho Alamitos 15, Estancia 4

Rancho Alamitos 300 026 4 - 15 18 1

Estancia 002 001 1 - 4 6 1

Cummings, Ybarra (4) and Delarosa; Gates, Hauser (6), Gleason (6),

Lund (7) and Lund, Gleason (7). W - Cummings. L - Gates, 0-1. 2B -

Coladanato (RA). 3B - Flory (E).