One inning into Hart High’s Westside tournament...

One inning into Hart High’s Westside tournament baseball game against Taft on Saturday, right-hander Doug Distaso had scored more runs than the opposition would score the entire game. He would not be matched on the mound, either.

In the top of the first inning, Distaso, a senior and Hart’s leadoff batter, walked, stole second and third, and scored what proved to be the winning run.

Distaso, who never before had pitched in organized ball, threw a one-hitter, struck out three and walked three as Hart won, 2-0.

As far as first starts go, Distaso was in command.

Other than the third inning, he faced the minimum number of batters--with some help from his friends.

With two out in the fifth inning, Taft’s Warren Peck lined a pinch-single to right but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. In the sixth, Taft’s Matt Allison reached base on an error but was erased when John Erganian grounded into a double play.

Distaso, a wide receiver on the football team, needed just 88 pitches--22 in the third inning. He also finished with four stolen bases.

Seniors Angel Aragon and Jose Gastelum, the top returning Channel Islands players, needed only one game to find their groove.

Aragon, a senior right-hander who was 10-2 last year and has signed to play at Cal State Long Beach, struck out 13 and gave up just four hits in Channel Islands’ 3-1 win over Alemany in a Westside tournament opener Saturday. Gastelum, a senior catcher who hit .424 last season, had two hits and drove in all three of Channel Islands’ runs. . . .

Simi Valley junior Kevin Nykoluk had driven in four runs, including two with a home run, when rain washed out the host Pioneers’ 5-2 lead over L. A. Banning in an El Segundo tournament game Friday. But Nykoluk, named sophomore of the year by Cal-Hi Sports last season, hit a solo home run in Simi Valley’s 7-3 win over Banning the next day. This time, it counted. . . .

Taft’s Stacey Kleiner, who batted .375 last season as a sophomore and is regarded as one of the region’s best catching prospects, had a busy day in his team’s opener against Hart. Kleiner nailed three would-be base thieves, plus one baserunner on an attempted steal of home. However, Hart players stole seven bases. . . .

Rio Mesa senior forward Jeff Howatt played in the Spartans’ 58-47 loss to Artesia in a Southern Section Division II-AA semifinal basketball game last week. Four days later, Howatt turned pitcher and threw a four-hitter in Rio Mesa’s 3-0 win over Beverly Hills in a Westside tournament game. Howatt, 6-foot-5, struck out eight and did not allow an extra-base hit. . . .

Northwest Valley Conference teams swept Valley Pac-8 teams in three tournament games last week: San Fernando defeated Birmingham, 8-5; Kennedy blanked Poly, 8-0; and Granada Hills edged Grant, 9-8.

Basketball: Westlake senior forward Joey Leavitt finished third in school history in single-season scoring and rebounding. Leavitt scored 425 points, behind only Kurt Schwan (545 in 1988-89) and Paul Keenan (450 in 1986-87). Leavitt’s total of 221 rebounds was third behind Schwan (289 in 1988-89) and Derrick Beale (236 in 1978-79). . . .

Birmingham’s Carlos Avelar made 51 of 61 (83.6%) free throws and teammate Peter Bernardo hit 20 of 23 (87%).

Scholar-athletes: Nine of the 12 players on the Reseda boys’ basketball team finished with at least a B average in the fall semester. The Reseda starters had a combined grade-point average of 3.16 for the semester and the team had an average of 3.01. UCLA-bound swingman Marquis Burns led all players with a semester GPA of 3.66 and reserve Jeff Katz was second at 3.50.

Girls’ basketball: Thousand Oaks guard Michelle Palmisano scored 141 points (28.2 average) in five Southern Section playoff wins. . . .

Junior center Jamie Arundell of Fillmore finished third in the Southern Section in regular-season scoring with 581 points and sixth in rebounding with 363. Arundell, who averaged 26.4 points and 16.5 rebounds, had highs of 40 points and 25 rebounds. . . .

Santa Paula senior point guard Tara Sanders was the Southern Section’s second-leading three-point shooter, hitting 58 of 120 shots (48.3%). Sanders averaged 20.6 points a game. . . .

Wendy Ward, a senior point guard from Ventura, was 10th in assists in the Southern Section with 141, a 7.4 average. . . . Hueneme’s Chandra King was 21st on the assist chart with 94, a 5.8 average.

Girls’ soccer: Junior midfielder Alyse Lowen finished the season with 28 goals and led Harvard-Westlake to a 14-14 record and the Southern Section 1-A final. . . . Becky Andrews of Chatsworth scored 26 goals, including one in the Chancellors’ 2-0 victory over Granada Hills in the City Section championship match.

Regional Baseball Top 10

Selected by sportswriters of The Times

Rk Team League Record 1 Crespi Mission 16-9-1 2 Simi Valley Marmonte 22-5 3 Chatsworth West Valley 18-8 4 Kennedy North Valley 21-7 5 Channel Islands Marmonte 16-6 6 Grant East Valley 11-14 7 Monroe Mid-Valley 14-9 8 Royal Marmonte 17-6 9 Cleveland North Valley 8-12 10 Montclair Prep Alpha 21-3

Last season’s final records indicated.