Gap closes in race for Sunset baseball title

The race for the 2004 Sunset League baseball championship tightened

last week.

Marina High’s 6-4 victory over visiting Edison, coupled with

Huntington Beach’s 4-1 loss at Esperanza, brought the Vikings to

within one game of the first-place Oilers in the league standings.

Brandon Parillo threw six innings and improved his record to 7-1.

The senior recorded 11 strikeouts.

Marina led, 6-0, through five innings, getting five of those runs

in the third inning, aided by four Edison errors.

Robbie McIntee doubled and Patrick Murray, Brian Ward and Luis

Gonzalez each had an RBI for the Vikings.

Andrew Mozeleski, Donny Spreeman, Jake Duehring and Wes Kinkopf

each had an RBI for the Chargers.

Two days earlier, Edison edged Marina, 4-3, with Timoti delivering

the game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the seventh.

The Chargers trailed, 3-0, but Palica brought them even with a

three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth.

Esperanza pushed across two runs in the second and third innings

to get past Huntington.

The Oilers managed just three hits and scored their lone run in

the top of the fourth.

Ocean View was a 7-4 winner at Estancia in Golden West League

play.

Bear Wurts went three for three with a double and clubbed two RBIs

to lead the Seahawks on offense.

Pitcher Robert Purpura earned the win.

In nonleague baseball, Edison fell to host Mission Viejo, 9-4.

Tommy Palica hit a solo home run in the sixth inning, Nate Mitani

and Wes Kinkopf each had an RBI and John Timoti doubled for the

Chargers.

In softball, Krystal Heinle starred both offensively and on the

mound as Marina downed Long Beach Millikan, 2-0, in nonleague play at

Millikan.

Heinle had an RBI double and notched the pitching win behind a

three-hit, complete-game effort.

Michelle Fuzzard also had an RBI double for the Vikings.

In Sunset League softball, Heinle turned in another solid pitching

performance in a 2-0 blanking of Huntington.

Heinle limited the Oilers to just two hits and struck out nine.

Fuzzard and Mandee Farish drove in runs for the Vikings.

Marina also downed Fountain Valley, 2-1, with Heinle tossing a

three-hitter.

In another Sunset game, Fountain Valley defeated host Edison, 3-0.

In Golden West League softball, Ocean View outlasted host

Saddleback, 14-10.

Jewelia Cruz’s two-RBI single in the top of the seventh

highlighted Ocean View’s five-run rally. .

Jessica Baxter hit a three-run homer in the third inning and

finished with three hits and five RBIs.

Sara Seman hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning for Ocean

View.

Pitcher Jerian Isfeld notched the win for the Seahawks.

Ocean View also held off Estancia, 6-4, in league play.

In boys’ volleyball, Huntington gained a measure of revenge on

Fountain Valley by defeating the Barons on their home court, 27-25,

25-19, 22-25, 22-25, 17-15, in a key Sunset match.

Fountain Valley swept the Oilers March 31, but Huntington’s latest

victory meant a first-place tie between the Oilers and Barons.

Trey Valbuena had 22 kills and Brandon McLaughlin had 19 kills for

the Oilers.

Huntington also swept Edison, 25-17, 25-20, 25-15.

Edison was also swept by Los Alamitos, 18-25, 21-25, 21-25, and Esperanza went the distance to defeat Marina, 16-25, 23-25, 25-23,

25-23, 15-12.

In boys’ tennis, Edison’s Thomas Shubert rallied from one game

down to win his quarterfinal match at the Ojai Valley Tournament.

In swimming, Huntington’s Bryce Elser won both the 200 and 500

freestyle events as the visiting Oilers cruised past Laguna Beach,

124-42, in a nonleague meet.

In boys’ track and field, Edison’s victory in the 1,600-meter

relay proved huge as the Chargers tied Fountain Valley, 68-68, and

remained in first-place in the boys’ Sunset standings.

In another boys’ dual meet, Marina was a 101-34 winner over Huntington.

In girls’ track and field, Marina shaded Huntington, 70-65,

In boys’ golf, Joey Benedetti and Kris Assawapimonporn medaled as

Huntington Beach defeated Esperanza, 188-204, at SeaCliff Country

Club.