Tillers rally past Newport Harbor

The beginning appeared quite promising for the Newport Harbor High

baseball team, which opened its season in a pool-play game of the

Newport Elks tournament against Tustin at the Sailors’ field Friday.

Senior Brandon Jasper smacked a two-out home run to center field

in the first inning and the Sailors scored two more runs in the

second inning. They led, 3-0, through four innings.

However, Tustin came alive with a five-run fifth and held off

Newport for an 8-5 victory. The Sailors had the bases loaded with one

out in the bottom of the seventh inning and their fourth and fifth

batters in the lineup coming to the plate. But the Tillers collected

two strikeouts to turn away Newport’s rally.

Jasper went 1 for 3 with a run scored and two RBIs. Junior Taylor

Young was 2 for 3 with a run scored and an RBI and Jeff Sanchez also

had a 2-for-3 performance that came with an RBI.

“[Tustin] just strung together some hits in the fifth,” Newport

Coach Joel Desguin said. “We just couldn’t get the big hit.”

The Sailors had six runners left on base. They collected nine

hits, while Tustin had 12. Newport starter Joey Cantarella struck out

five and allowed eight hits and five runs, one unearned.

Newport returns to tournament action today, hosting Los Amigos at

10 a.m.

CdM shuts out Mission

* Senior Josh Bradbury homered and junior Wess Presson smacked a

two-run blast to help lead the Corona del Mar High baseball team to a

3-0 win over Mission Viejo in pool play of the Newport Elks

tournament at the Sea Kings’ field Friday.

Corona del Mar, in its season opener, also received a gem from

senior pitcher Todd Macklin, whose complete game included eight

strikeouts, two walks and three hits.

In the seventh inning, he helped himself get out of a jam by

turning a double play when Mission Viejo had runners on first and

second with no outs.

Macklin grabbed a line drive and threw the runner out at first

with a dart to Blake Contant.

Corona del Mar senior Barrett Sprowl had two doubles including one

in the sixth inning when the Sea Kings scored three runs. Bradbury

led off the inning with a home run over the fence in right-center

field that chased Mission Viejo starter Steve Grove.

Sprowl followed with a double and Presson brought him home with

his two-run bomb past the left-field fence.

The Sea Kings continue tourney action today at 2 p.m., playing

against Valencia in Placentia.

Lancers nip Mustangs

* Orange Lutheran High senior Ryan Shopshire tossed a

complete-game one-hit shutout in a 1-0 victory over visiting Costa

Mesa to begin play in the season-opening Newport Elks baseball

tournament at Orange’s Hart Park Friday night. Shopshire struck out

12 and walked just two in recording his first win.

Bobby Wooldridge drove in the game’s lone run with a single

through the hole at short in the third inning.

Alex Pisarski singled sharply to right field for Mesa’s only hit.

Mesa starter Justin Peterson was equally as dominant, holding the

Lancers to three hits in six innings while striking out four with two

walks.

Junior shortstop Dylan Hunter helped turn a double play after

snaring a line drive.

The Mustangs host Magnolia at 2 p.m. today.

Schaeffer quiets Eagles

* Garden Grove High right-hander Dana Schaeffer struck out eight

in a complete-game three-hitter to give his team a 5-1 season-opening victory over the visiting Estancia baseball team Friday to begin pool

play in the Newport Elks Tournament.

The Eagles took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on senior Jeremy

Hauser’s triple to bring in Cullen Crom, but Schaeffer settled down

after that and retired the final 10 hitters he faced.

Garden Grove took the lead for good in the fourth, scoring their

first two runs following two of Estancia’s three errors.

Senior Brad Young struck out three in six innings. Two of Garden

Grove’s five runs were unearned.

Crom went 2 for 3 while Hauser was 1 for 3.

The Eagles host Century at 10 a.m. today in the second of three

pool-play tournament games.

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Newport Elks Tournament Pool play

Garden Grove 5, Estancia 1

Score by Innings

Estancia 100 000 0 -- 1 3 3

G. Grove 000 311 x -- 5 6 1

Young and Crom; Schaeffer and Geiger; W --

Schaeffer, 1-0. L -- Young, 0-1. 2B - Rios

(GG), Mitchell (GG). 3B - Hauser (Est).

Corona del Mar 3, Mission Viejo 0

Score by Innings

Mission 000 000 0 -- 0 3 0

CdM 000 003 x -- 3 5 2

Grove, Meschi (6) and Fadley; Macklin and

Kelly. W -- Macklin. L -- Grove. 2B --

Sprowl (CdM) 2. HR -- Bradbury (CdM),

Presson (CdM).

Tustin 8, Newport Harbor 5

Score by Innings

Tustin 000 051 2 -- 8 12 0

Newport 120 001 1 -- 5 9 2

Dickson, Lorenejo (6) and Salgado;

Cantarella, Jasper (5), McLean (7) and

Sanchez. W -- Dickson. L -- Cantarella,

0-1. 2B -- Stokes (T), Brown (T). HR --

Jasper (NH).

Orange Lutheran 1, Costa Mesa 0

Score by Innings

CM 000 000 0 -- 0 1 0

OL 001 000 x -- 1 3 1

Peterson and Benson; Shopshire and Grubb.

W -- Shopshire, 1-0. L -- Peterson, 0-1.

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