Breaker baseball handed first league loss

Laguna Beach High’s baseball team was handed its first Pacific Coast

League loss on Tuesday as visiting Corona del Mar won, 9-1.

A five-run third inning, and three more runs in the fourth, gave

the Sea Kings a 9-0 lead and Laguna could not recover.

The loss was the exact opposite result from the Breakers’ PCL

opener last Friday, when they broke a 1-1 tie with a seven-run,

seventh inning explosion, to down host Calvary Chapel, 8-1.

Senior right-hander Jonathon Cedeno was at the top of his game in

cementing his first win of the season.

He tossed a one-hitter, with Calvary scoring an unearned run.

Senior Andy Whalen collected a pair of RBI and Conley Sampson

delivered a key double for Laguna.

Brandon Hooper also had a big game with a single, two stolen bases

and two runs scored.

In softball action, Laguna managed only one run -- unearned in the

bottom of the sixth -- against Santa Ana pitcher Veronica Cardenas in

a 5-1 nonleague loss to the visiting Saints.

In boys’ tennis, Laguna picked up its second win in the season by

edging visiting Trabuco Hills, 10-8.

Jeff Ferguson, at No. 2 singles, was the lone player to sweep his

opponents. Ferguson won by scores of 6-2, 7-0, 6-0.