Cantarella helps the Sailors snap 19-game frustration

Junior right-hander Joe Cantarella spun a two-hitter, facing the

minimum over the first six innings, and Jeff Sanchez delivered a

run-scoring single in the fifth inning to lift the Newport Harbor

High Sailors to a 1-0 victory over visiting Laguna Hills in Sea View

League baseball Friday.

The decision snapped a 19-game league losing streak for the

Sailors, who improved to 3-7, 1-2 in league.

“I told them this was a big one,” said second-year coach Joel

Desguin.

Cantarella struck out four and walked one in an errorless game on

both sides of the diamond.

Through the first six innings, the only Laguna Hills figure on the

base paths was David Filipiak, with a one-out single. But he was

erased when the next batter went down, 6-4-3.

A walk and base hit in the seventh probably gave Desguin some

stomach pangs, but Cantarella got the last batter on a pop-up.

Newport Harbor got the only run it needed in the fifth inning when

Ryan Heenan battled back from an 0-2 count to draw a walk and

advanced to second on Dave Erickson’s sacrifice bunt.

Sanchez followed with a single down the first-base line and Heenan

scored well ahead of the play at the plate.

R.J. Muller had Newport’s only other base hit, a one-out bunt

single in the fourth inning, and a free pass put two runners aboard

before Laguna Hills pitcher Kevin Barnum struck out the next two

batters.

Barnum allowed just two singles, as did Cantarella, and struck out

nine in a game which lasted just 75 minutes.

The Sailors return to Sea View League play Wednesday night at

Windrow Park with Ryan Torrey scheduled to start.

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Sea View League

Newport 1, Laguna Hills 0

Score by Innings

Lag. Hills 000 000 0 -- 0 2 0

Newport 000 010 x -- 1 2 0

Barnum and Rochon; Cantarella and Sanchez.

W -- Cantarella. L -- Barnum

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