Breakers lose tough one to Timberwolves

The Laguna Beach High baseball team played host Northwood tough to

the end Tuesday, but suffered a 5-1 loss in Pacific Coast League

action.

The Breakers and Timberwolves were locked in a 1-1 tie heading

into the bottom of the sixth, where the host team rallied for four

runs to take command.

Alex Wilson, backed by a solid defense, pitched an outstanding

game and gave up just five hits.

He was replaced in the sixth by Grant Harrell.

Laguna took an early 1-0 lead when Jake Wheeler started the game

with a single, stole second and scored on Wilson’s line-drive single

up the gap in right-center field.

The setback came on the heels of a 15-3 loss to league-leader

Corona del Mar.

The lopsided final score was not indicative of the battle the

Breakers gave the host Sea Kings for five innings.

After Corona del Mar scored three runs off Wheeler in the first

inning, Laguna answered with a two-run third, with Harrell hitting a

long double to highlight the inning.

Combining good defensive play with the pitching of Wheeler, the

Breakers shut down the Sea Kings through the fourth and in the fifth,

they rallied to score the tying run.

It came when Jeff Bolar dropped a bloop double down the right

field line, knotting the score at 3-3.

Corona del Mar responded in the bottom-half of the frame by

scoring five runs, then put the game away by adding seven more runs

in the sixth.

The Sea Kings scored 15 runs off five Laguna pitchers.

Aaron Pickett also doubled for the Breakers.