Newport Harbor falls at Foothill, 4-1

Newport Harbor High’s Sailors grabbed a 1-0 first-inning lead in

their Sea View League baseball game at Foothill High, but the lead

was short-lived as Foothill put together a pair of two-run innings

with a pair of doubles involved in each to claim a 4-1 victory

Friday.

“We just didn’t hit the ball,” said Newport Harbor Coach Joel

Desguin, who watched his team go down on strikes nine times with just

three singles to show for the day.

The only fireworks for Newport came in the first when Karo

Makserjian got aboard on a two-out swinging bunt, followed by a

stolen base and a free pass to Ryan Torrey before Ryan Rowe delivered

an run-scoring single up the middle.

Foothill responded with a nine-hit attack with four doubles as the

Knights improved to 5-0 in league. Harbor fell to 3-8, 1-4.

Newport meets Aliso Niguel twice next week, traveling on Tuesday,

then hosting the Wolverines on Thursday. Torrey gets the nod on

Tuesday for mound duty.

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Sea View League

Foothill 4, Newport 1

Score by Innings

Newport 100 000 0 -- 1 3 1

Foothill 020 002 x -- 4 9 0

Cantarella and Sanchez; Hughes and

Kirkpatrick. W -- Hughes. L --

Cantarella, 2-3. 3B -- Wigner (F), Hicks

(F) 2, Hughes (F)

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