Hide Article Text (OCR)
The Register Thur., May 7, 1981Sunset LeaqueWestminster clinches Sunset title by thumping MarinaWestminster High, a struggling baseball team of late, broke loose with a vengeance against Marina Wednesday night, pounding the Vikings, 13-5, at Blair Field to wrap up the championship of the Sunset League.The Lions, with two losses and a 10-inning win over Fountain Valley in their last three starts, rapped out a total of 18 hits against three Marina pitchers, scoring in every inning but the fourth in raising their league record to 12-2. Defending champion Edison, 11-3, can still tie the Lions for the top spot with a win over Marina and a Westminster loss in this weekend’s regular-season windups, but Westminster would take the title because of their 2-1 season edge over the Chargers.The Lions, 18-4 overall, turned a close game into a runaway in the top of the fifth inning, pushing across six runs to move into a commanding 11-2 lead.The big inning started with two outs when Dan Twiss and Matt Coddington hit back-to-back triples. Gerardo Llamas hit a run-scoring double and Dave Cox, Dave Harris and Vince Rock followed with RBI singlesand Westminster was on its way.Rich Castle held Marina, 5-9, to just one hit over the first four innings, but ran into trouble in the fifth and Mick DeLavalladehad to finish up. Bob Grandstaff had threesingles for the Vikings, who had their play off hopes ended.In other Sunset League action: _EDISON 4, FOUNTAIN VALLEY 1: TheChargers ran their winning streak to nine games and forced Fountain Valley into a weekend showdown for third* place on Rich Sorenson’s four-hitter at Mile Square Park.Sorenson gave up a home run on his first pitch of the evening, but didn’t allow a Fountain Valley runner past second base thereafter, striking out six and not giving up a walk in raising his record to 8-2.Edison, 204 overall, tied the score at-1-1 in the bottom of the first when John Bejles -stole home, then took the lead for good; in . the third on his two-run home run.Tom Duggan accounted for the Chargers’ 1 final run in the fourth with his seventh honpe run of the year, a school record. Sorenson really didn’t need it, however, setting down the final 10 Barons in order to drop Fountain Valley’s league mark to 6-8.The Barons, who dropped a $-5 heartbreaker in 10 innings to Westminster last weekend, meet Huntington Beach, also 6-8, Saturday night at 7 at Mile SquarePark with third place and a spot in next wcfek!s PTF nlavnff* PC\\r\Q to the winner.
Newspaper Details
Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Thu, May 07, 1981
Page 87
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 31 Jul 2021
Other Publications Near Santa Ana, California
Santa Ana Pacific Weekly Blade
Santa Ana Excelsior
Santa Ana News
Santa Ana Evening Blade
Santa Ana Orange County Register Evening
