Huntington Valley takes a leg up on Seaview

The opening game of the best-of-three Majors Division series of the

District 62 All-Star Tournament has gone to Huntington Valley.

The host team defeated Seaview Monday night at Wardlow Park, 9-6.

Huntington Valley recorded the victory on 10 hits and once again,

Race Parmenter homered to power the attack.

Parmenter hit his third home run in two games with a solo shot in

the second inning.

Huntington Valley erupted for five runs in the third frame by

piecing together singles by Jimmy Miller and Devin Huskins and

doubles by Tim Higgins, Trevor Springman and Tanner Phillips.

They pushed across two more runs in the fourth behind singles by

Huskins and Nick Mazzone.

Seaview came back strong in the fifth as Chris Czerniachowski,

Jake Burke and Ryan Miller scored to make it a 9-4 game. They scored

twice more in the sixth on hits by JB Bryant, Czerniachowski, Chance

Ross, Miller and Brandon Visnoski to close the gap to 9-6.

The pitching of Parmenter, however, finished off Seaview.

Parmenter recorded five strikeouts in a complete-game effort as

Huntington Valley moved to within one victory of clinching the

District 62 title.

In other games:

Huntington Valley 3, Fountain Valley 2

Race Parmenter’s standout performance of two home runs and two RBI

allowed host Huntington Valley to come from behind last Saturday to

defeat a determined Fountain Valley squad in an eight-inning affair.

Down 2-0 in the second inning, Parmenter’s first homer cleared the

centerfield fence. In the fourth, his second round-tripper tied the

game at 2-2.

Parmenter also had a hand in the winning run.

In the Huntington Valley-half of the eighth inning, Christian

Slaton was hit by a pitch. A few hitters later and with bases loaded,

Parmenter and roped a grounder toward first base and the ball was

mishandled, allowing the winning run to score.

The pitching of Devin Huskins and Barry Luke secured the victory.

Huskins threw the first six innings and his strong performance

limited Fountain Valley to two runs on four hits.

Luke’s two innings of relief work included giving up three hits

but not allowing a run.

Huntington Valley 6, Westminster 3

Huntington Valley’s second consecutive tournament win featured an

11-strikeout, four-hit performance by pitcher Tim Higgins.

Higgins also figured prominently in Huntington Valley’s offensive

attack as his run-scoring, bases loaded single and an RBI-double by

John Olive’ led to a four-run first inning.

Huntington Valley scored its final two runs in the third inning

when Devin Huskins singled with bases loaded.

Other Area 1 scores:

Westminster 5, Costa Mesa American 4

Fountain Valley 9, Costa Mesa American 3

Area 2

(at CM National LL)

Seaview’s run to the district finals included wins over Costa Mesa

National, 4-1, Robinwood, 2-1 and last Saturday, they wrapped up the

Area 2 title with a 5-0 shutout of Ocean View.

Other scores:

Robinwood 4, Ocean View 2

Ocean View 8, CM National 1