DISTRICT 62 ALL-STARS MAJORS DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP:

HUNTINGTON BEACH — It was easy for Rob Stillman to put a finger on what hurt his team Monday in the District 62 All-Stars Majors Division championship game.

At least, it was easier than the Costa Mesa National Little League All-Stars actually getting their collective gloves on the ball in a season-ending loss.

Costa Mesa National made five errors and couldn’t hold an early lead as Ocean View won the game, 5-2, at LeBard Park to advance to the Section 10 tournament.

It was the second straight year a Costa Mesa National Little League team advanced to the District 62 Majors final, but the league has still never had a team advance further. Last year’s team, the first CMNLL team to make it this far, was also coached by Stillman.

“You’ve got to make plays when you get down to this level, that’s all,” Stillman said. “We hit the ball good in the first inning and then we just kind of stopped. If you look back at the score book, we could have won 2-1, but I think we made five errors. They weren’t mental errors, they were physical errors. It even happens in the big leagues.”

Ocean View was also at an advantage because it threw its ace, Ben Drolet, on Monday, while Costa Mesa National ace Dante Capoccia was ineligible to pitch after going in the previous game against Huntington Valley.

It was Capoccia, instead of Drolet, who was eligible to pitch when Stillman’s CMNLL Majors Red Sox beat Drolet’s Ocean View Mets, 4-3, in the District 62 Tournament of Champions title game on June 21.

On Monday, Drolet helped Ocean View make up for that, pitching the complete game and allowing two earned runs on just three hits. Drolet, who Ocean View Manager Richard Lopez said can throw about 70 mph, walked one and struck out eight in his 82-pitch outing.

Capoccia had all three hits for CMNLL.

“It was ironic, because when we played them in the TOC finals, Ben wasn’t available and Capoccia was,” Lopez said. “It was our opportunity today to showcase our best pitcher. As you can see, it was probably the difference in the game each time.”

Costa Mesa starting pitcher Matt Jarmacz did battle, giving up just three earned runs in 5 2/3 innings before reaching the 85-pitch limit. Jarmacz struck out four and walked one.

He was staked to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Ryan West had a one-out walk, and Capoccia followed with a double to center. West scored and Capoccia moved to third when the throw back to the infield got away.

Jake Stone followed with an RBI groundout, and Costa Mesa National was in business.

But Ocean View responded in the top of the second. Brandon Williams led off with a double and, after a walk, he eventually scored on Dylan Andersen’s RBI single. After pinch-runner Matthew Mulholland scored on a wild pitch, another run scored when Drolet roped a full-count, RBI double to the right-center field wall.

Ocean View scored unearned insurance runs in the fifth and sixth, the second of which occurred after back-to-back infield errors by Costa Mesa.

“We made too many errors,” said Capoccia, who himself made no errors at shortstop and had five putouts. “We didn’t really make any plays in the field.”

Drolet, meanwhile, settled down on the mound after throwing 26 pitches in the first inning.

“I just got confidence after that,” Drolet said. “My defense made all the plays for me ... I thought [teammate] Tristan [Chester] did a great job pitching [in the TOC final], but it was great to be able to come back and pitch and get them this time.”

Capoccia (three for three) had all of Costa Mesa’s hits, the last coming to lead off the sixth. But he was thrown out at second on a delayed steal, and Ocean View won the game as Drolet struck out the last batter with a curveball.

No Costa Mesa batter advanced past first base in the final five innings. The team that won four straight elimination games after losing the All-Stars opener appeared to have finally met its match.

“We only made two errors in four games, then we come in here and make five errors,” Stillman said. “There’s not too many teams that are going to rebound from a five-error effort. They made the plays and we didn’t.

“But these guys played hard all year. They played hard to get to this point. We won [four] in a row to get here. Hat’s off to them. It would have been nice to win one more, though.”

MATT SZABO may be reached at (714) 966-4614 or by e-mail at matthew.szabo@latimes.com.