Baseball: Granada Hills wins City Invitational title

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Freshman Mathew Troupe of Granada Hills stamped himself as a player to watch for 2009 and beyond with a four-hit shutout of Bell in the City Section Invitational Division final Saturday at Dodger Stadium.

The Highlanders won, 1-0. They got a game-ending double play in the seventh inning when the second base umpire ruled that a sliding Bell runner tried to illegally take out the Granada Hills shortstop.

Granada Hills Coach Josh Lienhard goes out a winner. He moves on to take over the program at El Camino Real and will be replaced by his assistant, Steve Thompson, a former coach at Granada Hills.

-- Eric Sondheimer