Softball: Three area teams into Faster To First semifinals

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Three Southland teams will join national #1 Sacramento Sheldon in Saturday’s championship semifinals at the Faster To First tournament at the Huntington Beach Sports Complex.
Sacramento Sheldon will take on Camarillo on one semifinal, and tournament host Anaheim Canyon faces Esperanza in the other. Both are slated for 1 p.m., with the championship game scheduled for 6:15 p.m.

Friday’s scores are as follows:

Pool play
Camarillo 2, Vail (Ariz.) Cienega 1
Oakley Freedom 3, Orland Park (Ill.) Sandburg 1 (8)
Farmington (N.M.) Piedra Vista 2, Fairfield Rodriguez 1
Peoria (Ariz.) Sunrise Mountain 8, Chino 2

Championship quarterfinals
Sacramento Sheldon 4, El Modena 0
Camarillo 1, Oakley Freedom 0
Anaheim Canyon 4,Fairfield Rodriguez 0
Esperanza 4, Elk Grove Pleasant Grove 1

Ninth-place quarterfinals
Garden Grove Pacifica 1, Winter Garden (Fla.) West Orange 0 (8)
Norco 2, Ayala 1 (9)
Hart 3, El Toro 2 (8)
Valencia 4, Peoria (Ariz.) Sunrise Mountain 1

17th-place quarterfinals
Honolulu St. Francis 2, Simi Valley 1
Orland Park (Ill.) Sandburg 4, Vail (Ariz.) Cienega 3 (8)
Vista Murrieta 4, Chino 3
Phoenix Sunnyslope 1, Farmington (N.M.) Piedra Vista 0