Ocean View has big game tonight

The Ocean View Little League 9- and 10-year-old All-Star team has come a long way.

Now, one game is all that remains between Ocean View and the right to claim a Southern California championship.

Ocean View will face Rancho San Diego at 7 tonight at the Newmark Little League fields in San Bernardino. The winner of the South Sub-Division III title game moves on to play the North Sub-Division III champion in a best-of-three series beginning Saturday night.

The winner of that series can claim Southern California 9/10 supremacy; Little League Division III encompasses all of Southern California.

Ocean View could have clinched the Sub-Division title Wednesday night but fell to Rancho San Diego. The teams definitely are familiar; Ocean View previously defeated Rancho San Diego, 2-0, on Monday. Ocean View won that game behind shutout pitching from Nick Pratto (four innings), Hagen Danner (one inning) and Anthony Martinez (one inning).

Rancho San Diego was the team that defeated Ocean View’s 9/10 squad in last year’s sub-division tournament.

— Matt Szabo