Double trouble for Tars

Newport Harbor High’s baseball team dropped a pair of nonleague games

to Pacifica Saturday, 10-2 and 16-0, and they have Tuesday to look

forward to when the resume play in the Newport Elks Tournament

against ... second-round foe Pacifica.

Newport Harbor pitching surrendered 29 hits and the Sailors were

guilty of eight errors, but there were some bright spots offensively,

especially with junior Karo Makserjian, Matt Erickson, Ryan Torrey

and Greg Miner.

Makserjian, in just his second year of organized baseball, went 2

for 3 in the opener, and was 2 for 2 with a triple in the nightcap.

Joining Makserjian’s statistics in the first game were Erickson (2

for 4 with an RBI and a run scored), Torrey (2 for 4 with an RBI) and

Miner (2 for 3 with a run scored), which was the extent of Newport’s

eight-hit attack.

The Sailors (1-2), by virtue of their 8-3 victory over Century on

Friday in the Newport Elks Tournament, are faced with Pacifica (3-0)

on Tuesday at the same site.

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Nonleague

Game 1 Pacifica 10, Newport 2

Score by Innings

Pacifica 231 301 0 - 10 13 2

Newport 001 100 0 -- 2 8 3

Connor, Bernard (5), Castrey (6) and

Tompkins; Cantarella, M. Erickson (3),

Heenan (6) and Sanchez. W -- Connor. L --

Cantarella. 2B -- Miner (NH), Bernard

(P), Heller (P), Rachlin (P)

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Game 2 Pacifica 16, Newport 0

Score by Innings

Pacifica 554 02 -- 16 16 0

Newport 000 00 -- 0 4 5

Murikan, Norton (5) and Lum; Rowe, Young (3)

and Cantarella, Miner (3). W -- Murikan. L --

Rowe. 2B -- Connor (P) 2, Wilson (P), Heller

(P), Moore (P), Rachlin (P), Bernard (P). 3B

-- Makserjian (NH)

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