ROUNDUP : Mission Eliminated From Baseball Playoffs

San Bernardino Valley College scored 11 runs with two out in the fifth inning Saturday and handed Mission a 14-7 loss in a Southern California regional baseball game at San Bernardino.

San Bernardino (31-13), which defeated Mission, 5-2, Friday, won the best-of-three series, 2-0.

Mission led, 3-0, and retired the first two batters in the fifth. But San Bernardino sent 12 consecutive hitters to the plate, nine of whom got hits.

Eddie Chavez led Mission (24-14-1), the Southern California Athletic Conference champion, had three hits and five RBIs.

La Salle 6, Bell-Jeff 5--Brian Esquival, who allowed the tying run in the top of the seventh, hit a one-out single in the bottom half of the inning that scored Mike St. John and gave La Salle the San Fernando Valley League’s third and final Southern Section 4-A Division playoff berth.

La Salle (15-9, 6-5) loaded the bases on St. John’s single and two intentional walks. Esquival followed with his third hit.

Bell-Jeff trailed, 5-2, entering the seventh but used Nester Villanea’s two-run triple, his second, and Tony Cesta’s run-scoring single to tie the score, 5-5.

Esquival (8-3) pitched one-third of an inning to earn the win.

Highland Hall 2, Avalon 1--Robert Ramirez struck out 15 to lead Highland Hall (23-2) in a nonleague game at Avalon. Jakob Jensen was two for three with an RBI and Ed Anastas added a run-scoring single for Highland Hall.

COLLEGE TENNIS

Cal Lutheran’s doubles team of Tony Cohen and Matt Simpson won its second consecutive NAIA District 3 championship with a 7-6 (7-1), 4-6, 6-4 win over Cal Baptist’s David Fontaine and Jonas Molin at Westmont College in Santa Barbara. Cohen and Simpson, both juniors, advance to the NAIA championships, May 22-27 at Kansas City, Mo.