Sylmar coach Ray Rivera is smiling. His favourite major-league group, the San Francisco Giants, beat the Dodgers twice this week with nice pitching. And his favourite highschool group, the Spartans, swept a two-game sequence from Sun Valley Poly with their very own nice pitching to maneuver three video games up in the Valley Mission League race with 4 to play.
Sylmar pitchers gave up no runs in 14 innings this week. After Matthew Torres threw a no-hitter on Monday towards Poly, Alex Martinez took the ball Thursday and recorded six shutout innings in a 10-0 win over the Parrots. He gave up three hits and struck out 5.
Tim Sepulveda completed with three hits. Sylmar is 17-6 and 10-1 in league.
Verdugo Hills 10, San Fernando 4: Anthony Velasquez had a two-run double and completed with three RBIs for the Dons.
El Camino Real 5, Chatsworth 1: Ryan Glassman had two hits and two RBIs and Shane Bogacz completed with two hits, together with RBI double, for El Camino Real. Hudson December gave up one hit in 5 innings.
Taft 5, Cleveland 2: Victor Jara had a two-run single to lead the Toreadors.
Bell 3, Garfield 1: Jayden Rojas struck out six in six innings. He additionally had two hits.
Alta Loma 2, South Hills 0: Logan Stein threw a one-hit shutout.
Thousand Oaks 4, Westlake 3: Preston Lee contributed an RBI single to interrupt a 3-3 tie in the seventh and raise Thousand Oaks to victory.
Oaks Christian 6, Agoura 5: The Lions scored two runs in the underside of the seventh to win. Ryan Sheffer tied it with an RBI single and KJ Henrich received it with an RBI single. Carson Sheffer completed with two doubles. Tyler Starling homered for Agoura.
Villa Park 4, La Serna 0: Logan Hoppie struck out six and gave up two hits in six innings.
Aliso Niguel 3, San Clemente 1: Chad Alderman threw an entire sport and Henry Drews had three hits.
Softball
Anaheim Canyon 4, Garden Grove Pacifica 1: Kelsey Perez struck out 11 for Canyon.
Carson 4, San Pedro 3: Ashannalee Titialii had two hits and Simi Mafoe homered for Carson.
Chaminade 7, Sierra Canyon 4: Siena Greenlinger had two hits and two RBIs.