Oilers win pair, eye Esperanza

Huntington Beach outlasted Fountain Valley in a key Sunset League

match, 7-15, 15-9, 16-14, 14-16, 15-10.

Kenny Markwardt paced the Oilers with 22 kills in a match that

lasted more than two hours.

The Oilers came back to earn a hard-fought, 13-15, 15-0, 15-13, 13-15, 15-10 over last-place Los Alamitos.

Markwardt again led in kills with 26 and Eric Eastman added 19.

Edison took league-leading Esperanza to the limit but the visiting

Aztecs, behind 43 kills and seven blocks by Jayson Jablonsky, rallied

to pull out an 11-15, 14-16, 15-8, 15-8, 15-6 victory.

Marina, meanwhile, fell to Esperanza, 10-15, 9-15, 8-15, and

Fountain Valley, 15-8, 13-15, 9-15, 15-7, 14-16.

In a key Sunset match, Huntington Beach hosts Esperanza on Friday.

Ocean View moved a step closer to securing the Golden West League

title by surviving Orange in five games, 13-15, 16-14, 18-16, 12-15,

15-13. Justin Roth led the Seahawks with 38 kills and 24 assists.

The Seahawks added Westminster to their list of victims following

a 15-6, 15-6, 15-9 victory over the Lions. Danny Thompson’s 10 kills

paced host Ocean View.

In baseball action, Ocean View derailed host Estancia, 13-3.

The Seahawks used a 12-run inning to take control of the game and

racked up 13 hits overall, led by Garrett Leon’s three singles.

Starter Phillip Hann got the win to improve to 6-1.

The win was the sixth in as many Golden West League outings for

Ocean View.

Edison maintained its grip on first place in the Sunset League

race following a pair of triumphs over Fountain Valley.

During the Chargers’ 11-7 victory in the team’s first meeting of

the week, an 11-hit attack was led by Garrett Young who doubled twice

and drove in two runs.

Tommy Palica, the third of three Edison pitchers, recorded the win

to improve his record to 3-0.

Edison followed that win with a 15-2 rout of the Barons. Young

homered, scored twice and had four RBIs, Nate Mitani homered to start

the game, Matt Cline singled twice, had two RBIs and scored three

runs and John-Paul Moreno tripled, singled and scored three runs.

Senior David Huff ran his record to 7-1 by throwing five,

scoreless innings.

Marina stayed a game back of Edison in the chase for the Sunset

title by beating Huntington Beach twice.

In a 4-0 victory, Daric Barton’s two-run home run in the third

inning accounted for Marina’s first runs of the game. Wes Etheridge

went the distance and ran his record to 5-2.

In another shutout, this one by a 9-0 score, Jason Jordan matched

Barton with a two-run homer. J.J. Valicenti got the pitching win and

improved to 7-1.

In softball, Ocean View junior Jennifer Shafizadeh hit a two-run

home run in the first inning to propel the Seahawks to an 11-3 win at

Estancia.

The Seahawks had staked to a 6-0 lead through 1 1/2 innings

before Estancia finally got on the scoreboard.

Junior Jerian Isfeld started on the mound and recorded the

pitching win.

Jessica Marlow’s two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth

inning spelled the difference in Edison’s 2-0 home victory over

Huntington Beach.

Stacy Birk went the distance and won her 12th game of the season.