Ocean View Beats Riverside Poly, 9-3, and Wins the L.A. Games Baseball Title

Ocean View High School defeated Riverside Poly, 9-3, Sunday to win the baseball championship of the Los Angeles Games held at El Camino College in Torrance.

The teams are made up of high school players who will return next season.

Ocean View scored two runs in the first inning and two more in the third to take a 4-0 lead. Riverside Poly scored three runs in the third to cut the lead to 4-3, but Ocean View added a run in the fifth to take a 5-3 lead.

Riverside Poly had the trying runs on base in the fifth, but Dan Naulty relieved starter Derek Ogle and worked out of the jam. Ogle, 2-0 in the tournament, was the winner.

Naulty--who had seven strikeouts and didn’t allow a hit over the final three innings to earn his second save of the tournament--was voted the most valuable player.

Steve Hernandez had three hits, Gary Christopherson had two hits and two RBIs, Matt Betram had a single and a double and two RBIs and Mark Brenner had two hits and two RBIs for Ocean View, which scored two runs in both the sixth and seventh.

Ocean View had nine hits and Riverside Poly five.