Ocean View, Robinwood win big
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Mike Sciacca, Independent
Ocean View and Robinwood, two favorites for the 2000 District 62
All-Star Tournament title, opened Majors Division play last Saturday with
two different types of victories.
Competition in the double elimination tournament continues today (5
p.m.) and Saturday at both the Robinwood and Huntington Valley Little
League playing fields.Ocean View 12, Huntington Valley 2
The game was scoreless through the first two innings before Ocean View
erupted for six runs in the top of the third.
Jeff Van Doornum (two hits/RBI/run scored) opened the scoring when he
lined an RBI single off the leg of Huntington Valley pitcher Michael
Hensley. Later in the inning, with the bases loaded, Chris Palmer (three
hits/six RBI/two runs) belted a grand slam for a 5-0 lead, and Trey
Valbuena (two hits) closed the inning with a solo home run.
Palmer also had a two-RBI double in the fourth inning, and Greg
Gonzalez hit a two-run home run in the fifth for a 10-2 Ocean View lead.
All three home runs were hit to left field for Ocean View, which
racked up 14 hits.
“The kids played a good game, and we hit the ball really well,” Ocean
View Manager Yun Conger said.”
Palmer also notched the pitching win, striking out 11 to go along with
one hit in four innings of work. Dallas Walters and Valbuena also saw
pitching action, and the Ocean View staff finished with a combined 16
strikeouts.
Frankie Mead had the lone hit for Huntington Valley, which scored both
of its runs on passedballs.
Robinwood 2, Fountain Valley 1
Scott Schauer hit a solo home run to left field in the first inning to
give Robinwood an early 1-0 lead in a tense ballgame. Fountain Valley
tied the score in the top of the second when Jeff Spirk scored on a wild
pitch, and the score stood deadlocked until the fifth, when Robinwood’s
Casey Becker doubled with two out and scored on a Todd Locken triple.
Schauer collected two hits, turned a double play in the fifth inning
to end a Fountain Valley scoring threat, and also struck out the game’s
final two batters after Fountain Valley had put runners in scoring
position in the sixth inning, to get the save.
The victory went to Becker, who gave up four hits and struck out five
in 5 1/3 innings pitched.
Dustin Jamison doubled, and Josh Larson, Jessey Cordero, and Martin
Duran all had singles for Fountain Valley.
Huntington Valley 10, Seaview 7 (9 innings)
Lucas Aumiller delivered a two-RBI double in the top of the ninth
inning Tuesday night to give host Huntington Valley the lead for good in
a wild elimination contest in which neither team would quit.
“I’m proud of these guys and it was an honor to coach them,” Seaview
Manager George Golden said. “I just wish we could take an inning or two
back.”
Seaview had built a 5-2 lead behind two-RBI singles by Nick McEachin
and John Ward, and a Michael Sheedy home run.
Huntington Valley opened up a 2-0 lead on Shawn Eley’s two-RBI double
off the center field fence, and rallied to tie the game at 5-5 on a
Seaview throwing error, Aumiller’s RBI single, and Michael Hensley’s
score on a tag up, the latter of which happened with two out in the sixth
inning.
Huntington Valley grabbed its first lead (6-5) on Frankie Mead’s RBI
single in the seventh inning, but Tyson Laggenbauer provided some late
heroics for Seaview when he took a 1-1 pitch for a home run over the
center field fence with two out, tying the score at 6-6. Hensley put
Huntington Valley back on top, 7-6, when he scored on another Seaview
throwing error in the eighth, but Seaview gained one final tie when Ward,
who singled, scored on a Huntington Valley throwing error.
Costa Mesa American 6, Seaview 3
Brandon Hoffman’s grand slam home run in the first inning lifted Costa
Mesa American to the league’s first tournament win since the 1996 season.
For Seaview, Cory Kindness hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning,
and center fielder Michael Sheedy made an outstanding defensive play in
the first inning when he went over the fence for a catch, taking away a
potential home run from CMA’s Matt Doran.
Other scores:
Westminster 7, Costa Mesa National 1
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