PREP BASEBALL ROUNDUP : Minor Adjustment Leads North to Victory Over P.V.

All Greg Davis needed was a minor adjustment to pitch North Torrance High to a 10-5 Bay League victory over Palos Verdes on Thursday at Palos Verdes.

“I just found a better spot to stand,” said Davis, whose record is now 5-3. “When I did that, I started to get my slider over, and they couldn’t do anything with it, especially late in the game.”

The victory keeps North (6-2 in league, 11-6 overall) just a half-game behind West High in the league standings, while Palos Verdes fell to 4-4 and 7-10. North and Palos Verdes play again today in a make-up game.

Davis struck out nine and allowed just one hit after the second inning, when Palos Verdes scored four runs to take a 5-4 lead.

Both teams scored once in the first, but with two outs in the second, North strung together six consecutive hits and scored three runs.

The Sea Kings clung to a 5-4 lead until the fifth when Brian Dessert chased starter Masaya Okada (1-3) with a two-run double.

The Saxons added an insurance run in the sixth, then tacked on three more in the seventh.

Davis had three hits on the day and was on base all five at-bats while teammate Tony Pruett was three for five with two runs batted in.

Mike Paolucci knocked in two runs for Palos Verdes, which managed seven hits off Davis, four of them in the second.

West Torrance 2, Rolling Hills 1--West’s Denny Hocking broke up a pitcher’s duel with a two-run homer in the sixth inning as West maintained its half-game lead on North Torrance in the Bay League. West improved to 7-2. Rolling Hills fell to 3-6.

Westchester 10, Crenshaw 6--In a Western League game, the Comets snapped a 4-4 tie with two runs in the fifth inning and four more in the sixth. Pitcher Mike Didomenico came on in the sixth to shut down a Crenshaw rally and earn the victory. Outfielders Victor Darensbourg and Dirk Young drove in three runs each as Westchester improved to 4-3-1 in the league.