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Llamas keepsLions on topVince Rock's lOth-innlng double off the left field wall and a run-scoring single by Gerardo Llamas gave Westminster High a 6-5 win over Fountain Valley Saturday night in a classic Sunset League battle at Mile SquarePark.David Harris went all 10 innings on the mound and was saved in the last of the 10th by a diving catch in right field by Llamas.The win kept Westminster in first place with an 11-2record, one length ahead of Edison with two league gamesto play. Fountain Valley fell to 6-7 and still heeds one more win to clinch a CIF playoff spot.Westminster had built a 3-0 lead through 5Vb innings and Harris sailed through the first five innings allowing just one hit.The Lions got a run in the second oft three straight singles and made it 2-0 in the fifth on singles by Dave Cox and Dan Twiss and a sacrifice fly by Matt Coddington.In the sixth, Rich Castle drove a towering home run 330 feet over the left field fence for a 3-0 lead.But Fountain Valley, limited to a second-inning by Dean Roberts through'five innings, exploded for five runs in the sixth. Brian Bass and Roger Muscente hit singles and two straight walks forced in a run. Mike Wagner then hit a high chopper to shortstop and the relay to second was both late and low. The ball squirted into right.field and all three runners scored. Wagner then cajrieItodie on Pat Conner's single for a 5-3 Baron lead.. ?’•'' • ^ yWestminster wasted little time iyiftg: the game in the seventh. Cox led off with a single, Twiss was safe on a bad-hop grounder and Coddington loaded the bases with a single. One out later, Harris singled in one run and Castle tied it with a sacrifice fly.
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Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Sun, May 03, 1981
Page 213
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