Sports Briefs: St. Francis product returns to MLB with Seattle

Bergman back in bigs with Mariners

After being called up from triple-A Tacoma on Sunday, former St. Francis High baseball pitcher Christian Bergman flourished in his debut with the Seattle Mariners against the Texas Rangers.

Bergman, a former All-Area Baseball Player of the Year who previously spent seven seasons in the Colorado organization, came on in relief in Seattle’s 4-3 win Sunday. The right-hander yielded an earned run, one hit and one walk in 3 2/3 innings. Bergman struck out two.

“It was great to get in there and help out in whatever way I could,” Bergman told the Seattle Times.

Bergman went 5-0 with a 2.17 earned-run average (seven earned runs in 29 innings) with Tacoma. Bergman, 29, registered 24 strikeouts in five appearances.

The UC Irvine product inked a minor league contract with Seattle in December.

Knights, Spartans preparing for CIF

The La Cañada and St. Francis high boys’ golf teams will compete Monday in the CIF Southern Section Team Divisionals.

La Cañada, which has won 13 straight Rio Hondo League championships, will take part in the Central Coast Divisional at 1 p.m. at the River Course of the Alisal in Solvang.

St. Francis, which took fourth in the Mission League, will participate in the Central Divisional at 1 at Lakewood Country Club in Lakewood.

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