PREP BASEBALL ROUNDUP

Hawthorne 2, Beverly Hills 1--The Cougars, winless in their first eight Bay League outings, completed a two-game sweep of first-place Beverly Hills with a victory at Hawthorne.

Tarrick Brock’s bases-loaded single with no outs in the seventh inning drove in Moises Barba with the winning run. Hawthorne, which beat Beverly Hills, 5-4, on Tuesday, improved to 10-14 overall and 2-8 in league play.

Beverly Hills (15-4, 7-3) had tied the score with one out in the top the seventh. Third baseman Barba fielded a grounder but threw the ball into right field, allowing Bryan Urda to score from first.

The batter reached third, but was stranded after right-hander Angel Fierro got two straight ground-ball outs. Fierro, who gave up five hits, pitched the second consecutive complete game for Hawthorne. Ted Golden threw a two-hitter Tuesday.

Beverly Hills right-hander D.J. Sutton had held Hawthorne to one run going into the seventh, but was pulled after hitting Barba with a pitch and walking Robert Lujan to open the inning.

Dennis Stone followed with a bunt that reliever Steve Belkin fielded and threw wide to third, pulling the third baseman off the bag and allowing Barba to slide in safely. Brock then hit his game-winner into right field.

Hawthorne opened a 1-0 lead in the second on a sacrifice fly by Lujan.

Palos Verdes 8, Inglewood 6--Jason Goldberg went three for three and drove in four runs to help the Sea Kings end a three-game losing streak with a Bay League victory at Palos Verdes.

“We had to win sometime,” said Coach Gil Eberhard, whose team improved to 12-9 overall and 6-4 in league play. “The law of probability catches up with you.”

Goldberg’s two-run single in the third inning broke a 5-5 tie. Palos Verdes opened a 5-0 lead in the second, but Inglewood came back with five runs in the third with the help of two Sea King errors.

Junior left-hander Pat O’Hara weathered the bad inning, going the distance to even his league record at 1-1.

Palos Verdes scored five runs in the second on three extra-base hits. Chris Heyn had a two-run triple, Goldberg a two-run double and Blake Anderson an RBI double.

Torrance 4, Leuzinger 1--Mike Kendall, who suffered his first loss Tuesday in relief, came back to pitch a five-hitter with nine strikeouts to help the host Tartars pull into a first-place tie in the Bay League.

Kendall (8-1), a senior right-hander, gave up no earned runs.

Eric Gonzales went two for two with two RBIs, and Anton Williamson and Kris Radcliffe each doubled and scored a run, as Torrance improved to 16-5 overall and pulled into a three-way tie with Beverly Hills and Rolling Hills in the league at 7-3.

Rolling Hills 8, Santa Monica 3--Steve Archibald’s two-run double capped a four-run fifth inning and put the Titans ahead to stay, 5-3, in a Bay League game at Santa Monica.

Right-hander Kirt Kishita (5-1 in league play) went six innings, giving up six hits. Rolling Hills is 10-9 overall and 7-3 in league, good for a share of first place.