First league win on the board for the Breakers

Aaron Pickett’s long ball in the bottom of the fifth inning went a

long way in guiding the Laguna Beach High baseball team to its first

Pacific Coast League victory.

The junior delivered a two-run home run to break a scoreless tie

and send the Breakers in motion toward a 4-2 victory over visiting

Calvary Chapel Tuesday.

The inning began when Kevin Kelly hit a leadoff single and was

moved to second base on Jon Ewing’s sacrifice bunt.

Two batters later, Pickett homered over the wall in right field.

In the bottom of the sixth, Laguna pieced together three singles

and another sacrifice to produce two more runs.

Jeff Bolar started things with a single and advanced a base on a

sacrifice hit-and-run by Alex Wilson. Conley Sampson followed with a

single, which scored Bolar for a 3-0 lead.

Kelly capped the scoring when he singled home Conley to make it a

4-0 game.

Calvary Chapel scored its two runs in the top of the seventh

inning.

Kelly went three for three overall and Sampson had two hits.

Bolar shut down the Eagles in six innings work to record the

pitching win.

Laguna opened Pacific Coast League play last Friday against

visiting University and fell to the Trojans, 13-9.

University hit four home runs in the game.

The Breakers trailed, 7-0, but rallied for one run in the third

inning and four more in the fourth, to close the gap to 7-5.

After University upped its lead to 10-5, Laguna again staged a

big, four-run rally, this one, coming in the sixth inning, to pull to

within 10-9.

A three-run errors by the Breakers in the seventh, however,

allowed University to pull away to victory.

Sampson doubled and finished with two RBI to lead Laguna.

Jake Wheeler also had two RBI and Wilson, Ewing, Kelly, Grant

Harrell and Garrett Rauch each drove in a run.

Laguna returns to PCL action today at Corona del Mar. First pitch

is at 3:15 p.m.