Sailors hold off Warriors

Newport Harbor High senior pitcher Joey Cantarella blanked visiting

Woodbridge for six innings and the Sailors fashioned a second-inning

rally to post a 4-1 Sea View League baseball win Friday.

The victory, Newport Harbor’s third straight in league, upped the

Tars’ record to 7-4, 3-2 in league.

Catarella and Greg Miner singled to start the second inning for

the hosts, then advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Jeff Sanchez.

Cantarella was tagged out at the plate for the second out on a ground

ball to short, but Patrick Keehan and Mike McLean each singled in

runs, before Brandon Jasper drove in two with a single to back

Cantarella’s solid mound work.

Cantarella yielded five hits, while striking out four and walking

none.

Woodbridge (4-6-1, 2-3 in league) brought the tying run to the

plate in the seventh. The Warriors loaded the bases with one out,

before scoring their lone run on a fielder’s-choice grounder that was

nearly a double play. Cantarella finished it off by inducing a

grounder to propel the streaking Sailors into the hunt for one of the

league’s three guaranteed CIF Southern Section playoff berths.

Newport has not been to the playoffs since 1990.

Lightning top Oxford

* A trio of seniors helped host Sage Hill School knock off

defending Academy League baseball champion Oxford Academy, 5-2,

Friday.

Senior Tim Wilkins threw a complete-game four-hitter, senior

catcher Bryan Kornswiet was 1 for 3 and made several sparkling

defensive plays, and senior Jordan Salinger went 2 for 3. Salinger

drove in the tying run and scored the game-winner, as the Lightning,

rallied from a 2-1 deficit.

Sage Hill (4-4, 3-4 in league), had lost three straight league

games, including a 5-0 decision to Oxford Tuesday. But the hosts

scored four in the fifth to take the lead against the Patriots, who

had never lost to the Lightning.

Salinger singled in a run to knot the score at 2-2, then, along

with Kornswiet, came home on Wilkins’ booming two-run double over the

left fielder’s head.

Junior Matt Loper followed with a triple to plate Wilkins, who

struck out seven, walked two and faced the minimum in the second,

third, fourth, fifth and sixth innings.

Kornswiet threw out two runners trying to steal and Wilkins picked

another off.

Mesa, Peterson prevail

* Costa Mesa High senior Justin Peterson continued his brilliant

pitching this spring with a complete-game four-hitter in the

Mustangs’ 6-1 Golden West League baseball victory at Orange Friday.

Peterson, who improved to 4-1, struck out 11 and also doubled in

the victory, which helped the Mustangs improve to 5-5, 2-1.

Daniel Cooper was 2 for 3 with two RBIs for the winners, who took

control with a three-run third. In that inning, Peterson led off with

a double and, later, both Gary Gonzalez and Andrew Sanford added RBI

doubles.

Orange fell to 3-8, 2-2 in league.

Costa Mesa opens the Pride of the Coast tournament today at home

against Colony at 11 a.m.

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Sea View League

Newport Harbor 4, Woodbridge 1

Score by Innings

W’bridge 000 000 1 -- 1 4 1

Newport 040 000 x -- 4 9 0

Swanson and Feicht; Canterella and Sanchez.

W -- Cantarella, 3-1. L -- Swanson. 2B --

Cantarella (NH). 3B -- Makserjian (NH).

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Academy League

Sage Hill 5, Oxford 2

Score by Innings

Oxford 200 000 0 -- 2 4 0

Sage Hill 001 040 x -- 5 7 4

Ott, Bedard (5) and Florido; Wilkins

and Kornswiet. W -- Wilkins,3-1 . L

-- Ott. 2B -- Wilkins (SH). 3B --

Loper (SH).

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Pacific Coast League

Costa Mesa 6, Orange 1

Score by Innings

Mesa 113 000 1 -- 6 8 1

Orange 000 100 0 -- 1 4 2

Peterson and Benson; Welsh and Lawrence.

W -- Peterson, 4-1. L -- Welsh , 1-3. 2B

-- Peterson (CM), Gonzalez (CM) Sanford

(CM), Hernandez (O).

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