Oiler spikers keep pace

The race for the 2004 Sunset League boys’ volleyball championship is

in its final week, and Huntington Beach High and Fountain Valley are

the front-runners for the crown.

The Oilers and Barons remained tied atop the league standings

after weekend victories.

Huntington came back from a deficit in games, winning 19-25,

25-12, 25-18, 25-23 over the visiting Griffins.

Rory Jones had 10 kills to lead the Oilers, who improved to 7-1 in

league and 12-3 overall.

Huntington visited Marina Tuesday and closes out the regular

season tonight at home against Edison at 5:45 p.m.

Fountain Valley, meanwhile, beat Marina in four games.

In baseball, Ocean View doubled up on Orange by beating the host

Panthers, 8-4, in an eight-inning Golden West League affair.

The Seahawks, who had 16 hits, won the game by scoring four runs

in the top of the eighth, then shutting down Orange in the

bottom-half of the inning.

Bear Wurts hit a solo home run to highlight the final inning.

Brett Burda, Robert Purpura, Jeff Roth, Derek Walsh and Josh Roth

all doubled for Ocean View.

Jeff Roth, the third of three Seahawk pitchers seeing action, got

the win to improve to 7-2.

In an earlier league game, Ocean View blanked visiting Costa Mesa,

2-0, behind Jeff Roth’s four-hit pitching.

In Sunset League baseball, Huntington and Marina remained tied for

the league lead after big victories.

The Oilers rode the pitching of Colin Balester to a 5-0 shutout of

visiting Los Alamitos.

Balester struck out nine in a complete-game effort and limited the

Barons to two hits.

Of the Oilers’ eight hits, Hank Conger belted a pair of doubles

and Mike Smith had one double.

Smith and Joel Kaluzny each had a pair of RBIs for the Oilers and

Conger drove in a run.

The shutout avenged Huntington’s 7-0 loss at Los Alamitos two days

earlier.

Marina survived a 10-inning battle with host Fountain Valley to

score a 5-4 win.

Adam Rodriguez’s solo home run in the top of the 10th proved to be

the winning run for the Vikings.

Rodriguez also doubled twice and had two RBIs.

Brandon Parillo hit a two-run homer in the third inning, Brooks

Walling doubled and Justin Sellers had an RBI for the Vikings.

Walling notched the pitching win and improved to 6-1.

It was the second one-run win for Marina over the Barons in two

days, as Marina posted a 10-9 home victory two days earlier.

Justin Sellers and Brian Ward each hit a two-run home run and

Robbie McIntee and Chris Torres each doubled for the Vikings.

Ward racked up four RBIs, Sellers had three and Patrick Murray

drove in two runs. .

In a battle for third-place, Esperanza defeated visiting Edison,

7-4. The Aztecs downed the host Chargers, 5-3. John Timoti hit a solo

homer for Edison in the first inning.

In softball action, Jerian Isfeld got the win and Ocean View

limited visiting Costa Mesa to a single hit in a 9-0 Golden West

League victory.

Jewelia Cruz tripled and had an RBI for the Seahawks.

Edison’s late rally fell a run short in a 5-4 loss at Los Alamitos

in Sunset League play.

The Chargers scored four runs in the top of the seventh to close

within a run.

Monica Bledsoe doubled and had two RBIs to lead Edison.

Esperanza scored an unearned run in the fifth inning and made it

stand in a 1-0 win at Marina.

Krystal Heinle limited Esperanza to just two hits.

Huntington was a 6-1 victim at Fountain Valley.

In boys’ track and field, Jace Cimabue won the long jump and

triple jump as Edison beat host Huntington, 78-51.

In boys’ tennis, Thomas Shubert swept and Ryan Malawy won two of

three in singles play but it wasn’t enough for Edison, which fell to

Fountain Valley, 12-6.

In boys’ golf, Brandon Plummer medaled at 35 as Edison defeated

Fountain Valley, 186-202, at SeaCliff Country Club.

David Lyons medaled at 35 to lead Huntington past Marina, 187-192,

at Meadowlark Golf Course.

The Oilers share the Sunset League lead with Esperanza.

Huntington also fell to Los Alamitos, 188-194, although Oilers’

Joey Benedetti and Kyle Warren shared medalist honors at 35 at

SeaCliff Country Club.

Marina edged host Fountain Valley, 190-192, at Mile Square Park.