High School Roundup : Lowly Channel Islands Takes It Out on Top-Ranked Newbury Park, 17-1

Channel Islands High vented a season’s worth of frustration and Newbury Park felt the loss of its No. 1 pitcher as the last-place Raiders knocked off the Marmonte League-leading Panthers, 17-1, Wednesday at Newbury Park.

Channel Islands (6-16, 2-9 in league play) amassed 18 hits against six Newbury Park pitchers.

Senior John Johnson had four hits and three runs batted in, George Alvarado had three hits and three RBIs, and Jacob Cruz and Patrick Avila each had two hits and three RBIs.

Tim Beal, Newbury Park’s ace before he was removed from the team a week and a half ago for violating school policy, has left a gap in the rotation. Senior Jeff O’Brien started in his place but did not make it out of the third inning. He and a parade of relief pitchers didn’t get much help, either--the defense made nine errors.

Channel Islands led, 7-0, after three innings, 9-0, after four innings and, 15-1, after six. Manuel Padilla gave up seven hits in a complete-game victory.

The Panthers (17-3-3), who beat Simi Valley, 8-3, Friday, appeared headed toward their first league title since 1977. However, the loss dropped them into a tie with idle Simi Valley. Both teams are 8-2.

In other Marmonte League baseball games:

Royal 6, Thousand Oaks 4 (8 innings)--Sean Swearinger doubled to left-center to drive in two runs in the eighth inning at Thousand Oaks and keep the Highlanders’ playoff hopes alive.

With Thousand Oaks trailing, 4-3, in the seventh, Chris Grodell singled home Lance Martin to force extra innings.

Thousand Oaks (13-8, 6-4) scored three runs in the first, two on a double by Scott Haffner, but Royal (12-15, 4-6) retaliated with two runs in the second on Steve Bernstein’s two-run home run and added single runs in the fourth and sixth.

Todd Lang doubled twice for Thousand Oaks to give him five doubles in the past two games.

Westlake 2, Camarillo 0--Junior left-hander Mike Eby struck out three and walked one en route to a three-hit shutout at Camarillo.

Tim Falsken scored on a passed ball and Keith Hess scored on single by Steve Susko for Westlake (10-13, 4-6). Camarillo (11-12, 4-6) suffered its fourth league loss in a row--three via shutouts--despite allowing only nine runs.

DEL REY LEAGUE

St. John Bosco 4, Crespi 3--Pat Bennett struck out six and scattered three hits but did not get much offensive support at Valley College. Chad Nichols and Scott Barton each scored a run and combined for four of the Celts’ six hits. Crespi (8-14-2, 1-8-1) committed four errors.

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY LEAGUE

Chaminade 10, Harvard 4--Greg Baumgartner (3-2) had eight strikeouts in a two-hitter and Justin Stark crashed a three-run home run for Chaminade at Harvard.

Colin Havert was three for three and Pete Miller, Steve Roberts and Aaron Weiss each had two hits for Chaminade (10-11, 5-2).

St. Genevieve 7, Bell-Jeff 0--Sophomore Carlos Concha pitched a four-hitter and Herman Merchan had two hits and two RBIs for host St. Genevieve. The four-hitter was Concha’s second in two weeks.

Roland De La Maza and Tom Nichols each had two hits for St. Genevieve (10-8, 4-3) and Joe Cascione added a triple.

TRACK

San Fernando Valley League finals--Angelo Palazzo won the 100 in 11.09 seconds and the 200 in 22.08 for Notre Dame at Cal State Northridge. He also anchored the Knights’ victorious 400- (42.90) and 1,600-meter (3 minutes, 29.71 seconds) relays.

Jennifer Stewart of Notre Dame tied her personal best of 5 feet, 6 inches to win the high jump and bounded 34-2 1/2 to win the triple jump.

Matt Corse of Bell-Jeff was the only athlete to win three individual events, taking the 110-meter high hurdles in 15.85 seconds, the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 41.11 and the triple jump at 43-11 1/2.

SOFTBALL

Notre Dame 10, St. Genevieve 2--Behind Becca Berline, the visiting Knights clinched their second consecutive San Fernando Valley League title.

Berline struck out 10 and collected three hits and three RBIs.

Alemany 11, Louisville 1--Patti Seresi had three hits and two RBIs to pace the Indians (13-9, 5-3) in a San Fernando Valley League game at Louisville.

Bell-Jeff 3, Chaminade 1--Tammy Sanchez, Peola Jarrin and Andy Ferchaw drove in runs to lift host Bell-Jeff in a San Fernando Valley League game.

VOLLEYBALL

Harvard d. Bell-Jeff, 15-5, 15-3, 15-3--Lloyd Rogers had 10 kills and Nick Wootton added eight to pace the Saracens (14-0, 10-0).

North Hollywood d. Sylmar, 16-14, 15-13, 15-9--Nestor Marroquin had 16 kills and Chris Rasmussen had 13 service points for host North Hollywood.

Reseda d. Van Nuys, 15-11, 15-13, 15-4--Joe Kretchet and Coley Kyman of Reseda each had 11 kills in a Valley Pac-8 match.

Chatsworth d. El Camino Real, 15-6, 15-10, 15-3--Greg Weaver had 19 kills as the Chancellors won the West Valley League title.

Chaminade d. Notre Dame, 15-8, 13-15, 15-8, 15-9--Chris Bruckner had 28 kills and 10 blocks as host Chaminade clinched second in the San Fernando Valley League.